2022 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 5-20
Self-praise has been considered to be a problematic action which should be avoided. Therefore, few studies have looked at its interactional features, even though self-praise is an occasionally observable feature of actual conversation. In light of this, the present study aims to clarify some of the interactional features in positive self-evaluation dialog and the orientations displayed by actions in which participants express positive self-evaluations. Discourse where participants talk about their strong points was selected for qualitative analysis. The results indicate that the participants exchange information, such as facts, records, or actual behaviour which evidence positive evaluation about themselves, and that participants confirm the validity of their evaluations through the exchange. Furthermore, as a means of accomplishing a mutually acceptable evaluation, ways of responding to compliments or negative evaluations about themselves were also observed. These results are discussed from the perspective of differences with previous studies and the equilibrium of evaluations between the participants.
