Referring to past actions in caregiver–child interaction in Japanese

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoyo Takagi
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
Past Experiences

In naturally occurring everyday caregiver–child interaction, a major part of what is hearable as storytelling or an incipient form of it is talk about participants’ (mostly children’s) past experiences. Adopting a conversation-analytic approach, this study attempts to show how explicit references to children’s past actions formulated in the form of [(X) did (Y)], where X is the young child interacting with the caregiver, can engender opportunities for participants to develop telling activities. Through the detailed analysis of talk and embodied features of telling sequences in each case, the analysis will reveal how the [(X) did (Y)]-format utterance is utilized for co-constructing the telling, and what social and interactional consequences are accomplished through the telling occasioned by such reference.

Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic marker sådan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Christian Schoning ◽  
Jørn Helder ◽  
Chloé Diskin-Holdaway
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Self Repair ◽  
Interactional Discourse

Abstract The last three decades have witnessed increasing interest in discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), both with regards to their high frequency in spoken discourse and their multifunctionality in interaction. Most studies have centered on English, with studies on Danish restricted to a handful of previous interactional discourse analyses. This paper is a preliminary investigation of the Danish word sådan (commonly glossed as ‘such’ or ‘like this/that’). A qualitative, form-based, discourse analytic approach is undertaken on over 40 minutes of naturally occurring Danish talk to argue that sådan qualifies as a DPM. In service of textual, subjective, and intersubjective macro-functions, sådan illustrates; exemplifies; marks hesitation; approximates a quantity; mitigates, hedges, or softens; and allows self-correction or self-repair. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for sådan’s place in the Danish DPM system and our understanding of DPMs across languages.

Task- Related Interactions Among Teachers and Exceptional, At-Risk, and Typical Learners in Inclusive Classrooms

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 226-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria T. Chow ◽  
Connie Kasari
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
General Education ◽  
Inclusive Classrooms ◽  
Exceptional Children ◽  
Students At Risk ◽  
School Year ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
General Education Classroom ◽  
Interaction Behaviors

Teacher-child interactions with exceptional, at-risk, and typical learners were observed in three inclusive classrooms. The purpose of this study was to examine both the frequency and type of teacher and student initiations and responses. Observations were conducted at the beginning, middle, and end of one entire school year and based on naturally occurring teacher-child interaction. Behaviors included teacher initiations, student initiations, and teacher responses to student initiations. Although the number of interactions between teachers and children did not change over the year, the type of interactions did change during the year in relation to child group membership. Teachers initiated more task-related interactions with exceptional children and gave them more negative feedback compared to at-risk and typical learners, but only at the beginning of the year. In the middle of the year, teachers gave significantly more negative responses to the task-related and off-task initiations of students at risk than to children with disabilities or typical learners. By the end of the year, there were no significant differences in the number or type of initiations to any of the children. Implications are discussed for the practice of including children with special needs in the general education classroom.

Le développement de l'enfant: premières influences, premières étapes et les fondements de la psychothérapie

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvon Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Young Child ◽  
Développement De L’Enfant ◽  
Child Interaction

Recent research on child development and on infant-mother psychotherapy is reviewed. The problem of continuity or discontinuity of early patterns is thus brought out, as well as the possibility of change under the influence of environmental modifications or in psychotherapy. After briefly presenting the most often proposed mechanisms to explain change, the possibility is suggested that such change could be better conceptualized by using fundamental modes of development that can be particularly observed in mother-infant or parent-young child interaction.

Some ‘technical challenges’ of video analysis: social actions, objects, material realities and the problems of perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Luff ◽  
Christian Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Video Analysis ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Technical Consideration ◽  
Camera Angle ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Conventional Solution

Unlike the wide-ranging methodological debates surrounding the accomplishment and analysis of interviews, fieldwork and focus groups, the discussions concerning the use of video data tend to focus on a few frequently rehearsed issues. In this article we wish to broaden the consideration of methodological concerns related to video. We address the problems faced when collecting data, particularly on how to select the framing for the recordings. We discuss the problems faced by researchers and how these have been addressed, revealing how a conventional solution has emerged that facilitates a particular kind of ‘multi-modal’ analysis. We then suggest some limitations of this framing and describe a number of recent approaches to recording video data that seek to overcome these constraints. While providing opportunities for very distinctive kinds of analyses, adopting these solutions places very particular demands on how data are collected, how research activities are conventionally undertaken, and perhaps more importantly, the nature of the analysis that is made possible. Although seeming to be a practical and technical consideration about recording data, selecting a camera angle uncovers methodological concerns that reveal the distinctive demands that video places on researchers concerned with the detailed analysis of naturally occurring social interaction.

scholarly journals Blurring the boundaries between domestic and digital spheres

Pragmatics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Rosenbaun ◽  
Sheizaf Rafaeli ◽  
Dennis Kurzon
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Digital Sphere

This study explores the phenomenon of multiactivity during recreational video-mediated communication (VMC) through the analysis of competing engagements. From a data corpus of naturally occurring interactions in public Google Hangouts, we focus on instances of competing engagements triggered by the co-presence of unratified participants in broadcasters’ physical environments. As users are immersed in their everyday spaces, interferences from their domestic sphere are common occurrences that break the participatory framework established in the digital sphere. Following a conversation analytic approach, we intend to show that these interferences lead to competing engagements that can be exploited rather than simply dealt with. Drawing on literature on multiactivity, we argue that participants at times organize and coordinate these multiple engagements to add playfulness and advance their interactions. In sum, this study aims to highlight how situated competing streams of action are coordinated and the purpose they may serve in recreational VMC.

Gesture reuse as distributed embodied cognition

Gesture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Johanne S. Philipsen ◽  
Sarah Bro Trasmundi
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Intimate Link

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the intimate link between hands and minds – or rather: How the hands are a means for exploring thoughts in collaboration with others. Specifically, this study investigates a series of locally occurring instances of gestural reuse in naturally occurring psychotherapeutic interaction. The repetition of gestural sequences and formats in interaction has been researched as serving pragmatic functions of building cohesion (McNeill & Levy, 1993) and managing different aspects of turn-taking (Koschmann & LeBaron, 2002). Taking a micro-analytic approach to the study of gesture, we show how reusing other participants’ gestures in the context of psychotherapy serves additional functions: As affordances for shared, embodied cognition. The study contributes to the growing body of research on gesture as a co-participated, co-operative (Goodwin, 2013, 2018) and embodied phenomenon that criss-cross the boundaries of inside-the-skull, individual-centered and socially distributed cognition.

‘Happy birthday Grandpa’

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Roslyn Busch
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Interactional Competence ◽  
Happy Birthday ◽  
The Family ◽  
Intergenerational Interactions

Video-supported technology is employed by many families to support familial relationships between grandchildren and grandparents. Employing an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach, this paper investigates the interactions of one family during a Skype session. The Skype call examined has special significance as the family members (mother and grandson) are calling to celebrate Grandpa's birthday. Detailed examination of video-recorded intergenerational interactions shows how the interactions are managed. Analysis highlights the important role of the mother in managing the progression of the call and her child's interaction with the grandfather. The interactional resources employed by the grandfather to initiate and sustain interaction with his grandson are examined. Also explicated is the interactional competence of a very young child in deploying interactional resources that orient to the affordances of technology. The findings contribute to understandings about how intergenerational interactions occur.

scholarly journals Le code-switching comme ressource pour l'organisation de la parole-en-interaction

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenza Mondada
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Interactional Perspective ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe aim of the paper is both to present existing research in interactional linguistics and to highlight some broader issues it raises for general linguistics. Thus, code-switching is dealt with not just as a particular phenomenon, but as a key area of study revealing important contemporary issues for linguistics.Plurilingualism has been approached from several perspectives: among them, the interactional approaches have focussed their inquiries on code-switching as it can be observed in naturally occurring interactional materials, recorded in various social settings. This empirical base has been fruitful for the exploration not only of the socio-pragmatic functionalities of code-switching but also for a redefinition of the grammatical resources involved in the organization of talk-in-interaction. In order to present these contributions, the paper will sketch some approaches coming from a broad interactional perspective, and develop more explicitly the approach inspired by conversation analysis.This leads us to formulate a series of issues to which code-switching can contribute in a powerful way :- issues dealing with the very definition of what the grammatical resources are: code-switching is not just the use of two or more codes by the speakers, but involves the active reconfiguration of what a "code" or, better, what a grammatical resource can be - as a flexible, indexical resource endogenously and locally redefined by the speakers for the practical purposes of the interaction.- issues dealing with the accomplishment of identities and social categories in interaction, dealt with as the emergent product of locally organized socio-linguistic practices;- issues dealing with the organization of sequentiality of talk-in-interaction : the way in which code-switching is mobilized both adjust and shape the interactional order and can teach us much about it.These issues are discussed by referring to the state of the art of this field and to the detailed analysis of a few excerpts of naturally occurring interactions recorded at work.

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