scholarly journals CLASSROOM RELATED TALKS: Conversation Analysis of Asian EFL learners

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nur Akmaliyah
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Face Saving

In this paper, the author first records, transcribes, and then analyses a short extract from an English conversation among three graduate students with different cultural backgrounds. It aims to analyse several aspects of conversation analysis; turn-taking, topic change, preference organisation, listing, use of figurative language, face saving, breakdowns and repairs, and dysfluency. The data analysis shows that there is an interesting feature occurs concerning to overlapping during conversation. Moreover, dysfluency is also one of noticeable features which exist regularly during the conversation. However, the figurative language that is expected to emerge during talk among different cultural background cannot be figured out because the participants tend to avoid using such complex and idiomatic language structure.

scholarly journals Impoliteness and Threat Responses in an Iraqi-Kurdish EFL Context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shurooq A. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
Group Interview ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Completion Task ◽  
Face Saving

This study shows impoliteness as a form of face-threatening that can be intentionally caused by verbal threats in a particular setting. It investigates: what strategies and mitigators do Iraqi-Kurdish English as a foreign language (EFL) learners use in situations of threat responses? The present investigation paper aims to examine impoliteness strategies and mitigators by these learners when they respond to threatening situations in their context. Thus, it fills a gap in pragmatics literature by investigating the reactions to threats in an Iraqi-Kurdish EFL context. To this end, 50 participants have participated in this study. An open-ended questionnaire in the form of a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) is used to elicit responses from the participants. Besides, a focus group interview is conducted to support the data analysis. The data are coded based on Limberg’s (2009) model of impoliteness and threat responses to figure out the strategies used by the learners. Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper’s (1989) taxonomy of mitigators is adapted to analyze the mitigators. Overall, the findings reveal that the preferred responses surpass those which indicate dispreference by the learners. They tend to use face-saving acts when they comply with the threatener’s demand and opt for face-threatening acts when they reject that demand indirectly. Moreover, these learners use mitigators to attenuate the illocutionary force of their responses. Finally, this study provides some recommendations and pedagogical implications.

scholarly journals Study of hedonistic lifestyles based on sexes and cultural background (students of batak and minang culture)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ristra Sandra Ritonga ◽  
Muhammad Fadlil ◽  
Agung Tri Prasetia ◽  
Muhammad Rifat Affani
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
University Students ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
T Test ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Quantitative Sample

This research aims at investigating the varieties of hedonistic lifestyles adopted by university students based on their sexes and cultural backgrounds. Culture is referred to in this research is the culture of Batak and Minang culture. The formulation to the problem for this research is there any difference in the lifestyle of hedonism in terms of gender and culture. This research method using descriptive quantitative. Sample for this study where students numbered 80 people. Data collection techniques in this study using questionnaires about the behavior of hedonism. Data were analyzed using t-test. Based on testing and data analysis significance level of <0.005. Namely, the hedonistic lifestyle in terms of gender has the significance of 0.000, and the lifestyle of hedonism in terms of culture has a significance of 0.005. This means that there are differences in terms hedonistic lifestyle of sex and Minang and Batak culture at the level of students.

scholarly journals A Conversation Analysis on the Interview between Agnez Monica and Host in “Build Talk Show”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
T. Thyrhaya Zein ◽  
Ronobel Boston Silalahi ◽  
Muhammad Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Preference Organization ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Conversational Interactions ◽  
Opening And Closing

The aim of the study is to determine how the aspects of conversational interactions are realized in the conversation. The researcher collects and analyzes data by applied qualitative content analysis through documentation technique. The data of this study were the utterances while the source of data is a video of the interview between the interviewer (Kevan Kenney) and the interviewee (Agnez Monica a.k.a Agnez Mo) in Build Talk Show. The source of the data was downloaded from the official Youtube channel of Build Talk Show with a duration of 27:03 minutes. The data analysis is based on the theory of conversation analysis proposed by Paltridge. The results of this study show that the interviewer (Kevan Kenney) employed the aspects of conversational interactions in asking and responding to the questions of the interviewee. The aspects of conversational interactions such as opening conversation, adjacency pairs, preference organization, turn taking, and feedback were used. Where as, closing conversation and repair categories were not used by interviewer throughout the conversation. On the other hand, the interviewee used Turn Taking, Feedback and Repair, but Opening and Closing Conversation, Adjacency Pairs, and Preference Organization were not used by the interviewee throughout the conversation. So, five of seven aspects of conversational interactions in conversation are applied. Those aspects of conversational interactions are realized in this conversation because it is the standard in conversation, and the interviewer and interviewee applied the aspects of conversational interactions in order to seek the information from the interviewee, to give the clarification of the issues and make a good communication in that conversation.

scholarly journals On the Nature of Talk-in-Interaction: A Pragmatic Study of Informal Conversations

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Justine Bakuuro ◽  
Damasus Tuurosong
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transcription Analysis ◽  
Notation System ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Informal Settings ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

This study attempts to uncover what the recurring patterns of interaction in informal conversations are. It is also interested in finding out which recurring patterns of interaction dominate in informal conversations and how these recurring patterns of interaction play out in informal conversations. Data used in the study includes only recordings of naturally occurring conversations of close friends in informal settings. The researcher meticulously transcribed the data using the conventions proposed in the Jefferson Notation System. In Conversation Analysis (CA), transcription is part of data analysis. The transcription/analysis reveals that four main recurring patterns characterize informal conversations among friends: Adjacency Pairs, Topic Change, Figurative Language and Dysfluency. The study further reveals the fact that Adjacency pairs is a very dominant recurring pattern in friendly informal conversations. As a form of turn-taking, Adjacency pairs largely characterized the conversations compared to the other three recurring patterns. Finally, the study underscores the fact that friendly informal conversations stay focused on selected topics with very little or no change of topic. Mid-way between the little or no topic change and the dominance of Adjacency pairs are dysfluencies and rhetorical questions. Keywords: conversation analysis, recurring patterns, informal conversations, Jefferson notation system

scholarly journals Impoliteness and Threat Responses in an Iraqi-Kurdish EFL Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Shurooq A. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
Group Interview ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Completion Task ◽  
Face Saving

This study shows impoliteness as a form of face-threatening that can be intentionally caused by verbal threats in a particular setting. It investigates: what strategies and mitigators do Iraqi-Kurdish English as a foreign language (EFL) learners use in situations of threat responses? The present investigation paper aims to examine impoliteness strategies and mitigators by these learners when they respond to threatening situations in their context. Thus, it fills a gap in pragmatics literature by investigating the reactions to threats in an Iraqi-Kurdish EFL context. To this end, 50 participants have participated in this study. An open-ended questionnaire in the form of a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) is used to elicit responses from the participants. Besides, a focus group interview is conducted to support the data analysis. The data are coded based on Limberg’s (2009) model of impoliteness and threat responses to figure out the strategies used by the learners. Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper’s (1989) taxonomy of mitigators is adapted to analyze the mitigators. Overall, the findings reveal that the preferred responses surpass those which indicate dispreference by the learners. They tend to use face-saving acts when they comply with the threatener’s demand and opt for face-threatening acts when they reject that demand indirectly. Moreover, these learners use mitigators to attenuate the illocutionary force of their responses. Finally, this study provides some recommendations and pedagogical implications.

scholarly journals TURN-TAKING MARKER ETHNICAL BUGIS AND BETAWI AT INDONESIAN CONVERSION IN INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Juanda - Juanda ◽  
Aziz Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Recording Technique ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Research Show

Abstract.The conversation uses marker’s in the turn-taking. Turn-taking for participants has characteristics based on cultural backgrounds for the ethnically involved as participants. The purpose of this research is to analyze the interaction in the conversation and turn -taking and its marker’s. This research is a descriptive research. This research was used the approach of conversation analysis. The sources of data were drawn from the oral dialogue of ethnic Betawi and Bugis ethnic groups. The data retrieval by recording technique. The data analysis using Flow Model (Miles and A. Michael Huberman). The results this research show the interaction of turn taking conversations in Bugis and Betawi ethnic groups was dominated by more senior speakers and who have extensive knowledge insight. More junior speakers have a minimum speech turn. Pause or silence is a long time going when the topic will change. Transition markers in turn-taking are generally greetings and calls like Hen, Hah, Iye, Kok, Yah, Hm., Aah, Kalogitu, Ok, Goodnoon Madam!  Good Afternoon Mas !, Yes, That, Lho, Nih. These markers are influenced by native language and ethnic backgrounds of the participants. Keywords: Markers, turn-taking, Bugis, and Betawi

Dynamic assessment and requesting: Assessing the development of Japanese EFL learners’ oral requesting performance interactively

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-575
Author(s):  
Allan Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Task Type ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Coding Scheme ◽  
Dynamic Methods ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Japanese Learners ◽  
Development Analysis ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis study investigates the use of dynamically-administered strategic interaction scenarios (D-SIS) in identifying Japanese EFL participants’ difficulties with requesting-in-interaction, and tracking their development. Informed by conversation analysis research, six Japanese EFL learners at a university in Japan carried out D-SIS tasks in two phases, with the aim of both identifying specific aspects of requesting-in-interaction that were challenging, and learner development. Analysis focuses on three particular areas of difficulty that arose for participants during the dialogic interactions—connecting request turn utterance linguistic choices to social context; pre-request expansions of requesting talk, and pre-closing sequences. A coding scheme was applied that analyzed mediation sequences in terms of the efficiency with which participants oriented to and resolved problems, allowing ZPD movement to be quantified. In combination with close qualitative analysis of the transcript data, mediation sequences provided insights into the participants’ knowledge and understanding of these areas that would not have been gained through non-dynamic methods. Results therefore provide insight into areas of difficulty for Japanese learners with regards to requesting, and provide support for the use of the D-SIS task type as a diagnostic tool in regards to request-based talk-in-interaction.

Jordanian graduate students’ complaints on Facebook: Semantic formulas and politeness

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-165
Author(s):  
Fathi Migdadi ◽  
Muhammad A. Badarneh ◽  
Laila Khwaylih
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Student Union ◽  
Closed Group ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Face Saving

Abstract This study examines Jordanian graduate students' complaints posted on a Facebook closed group and directed to the representatives of Student Union at Jordan University of Science and Technology to be transferred to the officials concerned. In line with Boxer (1993b), the study considers the students' complaints to be indirect speech acts, as the addressee(s) are not the source of the offense. Using a sample of 60 institutional complaining posts, the researchers have analysed the complaints in terms of their semantic formulas, politeness functions and correlations with the gender of the complainers. The students’ complaints are classified into six semantic formulas of which the act statement element is indispensable as the complaint is stated in it. The other five formulas, ordered according to their frequency, are opener, remedy, appreciative closing, justification and others. Despite the negative affect typically involved in the complaining act, the semantic formulas identified in this study are found to signal politeness and fit into Brown and Levinson’s (1987) pool of face-saving strategies rather than face-threatening acts. Specifically, when the graduate students direct their Facebook complaints to the students' representatives, they tend to offer camaraderie with them to be encouraged to pursue the problems specified in the complainers’ posts.

Restrictiveness, exclusivity, adversativity, and mirativity

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Fang Wang ◽  
Mei-Chi Tsai ◽  
Wayne Schams ◽  
Chi-Ming Yang
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Discourse Marker ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
English Only ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Turn Taking

Mandarin Chinese zhishi (similar to English ‘only’), comprised of the adverb zhi and the copula shi, can act as an adverb (ADV) or a discourse marker (DM). This study analyzes the role of zhishi in spoken discourse, based on the methodological and theoretical principles of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis. The corpus used in this study consists of three sets of data: 1) naturally-occurring daily conversations; 2) radio/TV interviews; and 3) TV panel discussions on current political affairs. As a whole, this study reveals that the notions of restrictiveness, exclusivity, and adversativity are closely associated with ADV zhishi and DM zhishi. In addition, the present data show that since zhishi is often used to express a ‘less than expected’ feeling, it can be used to indicate mirativity (i.e. language indicating that an utterance conveys the speaker’s surprise). The data also show that the distribution of zhishi as an adverb or discourse marker depends on turn taking systems and speech situations in spoken discourse. Specifically, the ADV zhishi tends to occur in radio/TV interviews and TV panel news discussions, while the DM zhishi occurs more often in casual conversations.

scholarly journals Keeping Conversation Rolling by Iraqi EFL University Learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Muayad Mingher Al-Shemmery ◽  
Hisham Adnan AlMumar ◽  
Dheyaa Al-Fatlawi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Production Level ◽  
Test Administration ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Optimal Form ◽  
The Face

The present study sheds some light on the conversation as an optimal form of communication. Also, it tries to illustrate Iraqi EFL learners&rsquo; aptitude for producing conversation and specifying the errors types committed by them in its progression. To accomplish these purposes, it is hypothesized that the learners may face formidable problems in sharing their experiences with each other and are unable to keep a conversation going. In the face of such problems, a sample of (50) learners is selected to a diagnostic test administration. The subjects are at the Fourth year, Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Babylon. Data analysis has proved that the leaners encounter more difficulty on the production level than the recognition one. This manifestation is manifested itself in the number of the learners&rsquo; correct responses as compared with their incorrect ones on both levels.

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