The Problem With Negotiability

Doran, Martin & Herrington (2024: 210):

This draws our attention to the ‘to and fro’ of face-to-face interaction, as speakers initiate exchanges and respond. The familiar Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) cycles of pedagogic discourse illustrate this point – as teacher and students engage in question, answer, evaluation cycles.

Reviewer Comments:

To be clear, the authors propose this 'negotiability' to be an interpersonal perspective on textual meaning. However, the authors have previously rebranded the exchange cycles of speech function as tendering and rendering which they propose to be a resource of tenor.