Interpreting Preference Organization in CA from a New Perspective

The existing researches in Conversation Analysis hold that preference organization is generalized and institutionalized methods of speaking and in no way intends to refer to the private desires or psychological motivations of the speaker.We think that it is somewhat improper to focus purely on the structural level of communication while neglect the psychological element of the language users,because interaction is a process of communicators' choice making in specific context,and preference organization is no exception.We hold that the action lying behind the dispreferred organization is Face Threatening Act in nature and face is one of the essential elements that communicators have to consider in the process of turn design.Communicators' understanding of the nature of Face Threatening Act is the basis of their constructing a turn with dispreferred property,and this is the politeness interpretation of the dispreferred organization.