Conversation Analysis: An Approach to the Analysis of Social Interaction

2014 ◽  
pp. 165-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Pomerantz ◽  
B.J. Fehr
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis

Walking through the city soundscape: an audio-visual analysis of sensory experience for people with psychosis

2022 ◽  
pp. 147035722110526
Author(s):  
Sara Merlino ◽  
Lorenza Mondada ◽  
Ola Söderström
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Noisy Environments ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article discusses how an aspect of urban environments – sound and noise – is experienced by people walking in the city; it particularly focuses on atypical populations such as people diagnosed with psychosis, who are reported to be particularly sensitive to noisy environments. Through an analysis of video-recordings of naturalistic activities in an urban context and of video-elicitations based on these recordings, the study details the way participants orient to sound and noise in naturalistic settings, and how sound and noise are reported and reexperienced during interviews. By bringing together urban context, psychosis and social interaction, this study shows that, thanks to video recordings and conversation analysis, it is possible to analyse in detail the multimodal organization of action (talk, gesture, gaze, walking bodies) and of the sensory experience(s) of aural factors, as well as the way this organization is affected by the ecology of the situation.

scholarly journals Perspectives to management language games and social interaction in self-managing organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Tuomas Korhonen ◽  
Teija Ahopelto ◽  
Teemu Laine ◽  
Johanna Ruusuvuori ◽  
Sanni Tiitinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
General Management ◽  
Pragmatic Constructivism ◽  
Language And Social Interaction ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Interesting Area

This essay identifies a theoretically interesting area, i.e. language and social interaction in self-managing organizations. By building upon earlier work in Wittgensteinian language games, we show that despite some existing research on management language games (inside and outside pragmatic constructivism), not much is known about language games in self-managing organizations. The essay brings together ideas concerning language games in general management and pragmatic constructivism, making a novel contribution in the area. Furthermore, we present an ethnomethodological perspective on analysing language and social interaction: conversation analysis (CA). We suggest that CA could be utilized to analyse social interaction within self-managing organizations in more detail, showing how the specific institutional characteristics of this type of organization are talked into being in this particular context. Several further research questions are proposed for future studies in management language games and language and social interaction.

Conversation Analysis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Sidnell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Action Sequencing

Conversation analysis is an approach to the study of social interaction and talk-in-interaction that, although rooted in the sociological study of everyday life, has exerted significant influence across the humanities and social sciences including linguistics. Drawing on recordings (both audio and video) naturalistic interaction (unscripted, non-elicited, etc.) conversation analysts attempt to describe the stable practices and underlying normative organizations of interaction by moving back and forth between the close study of singular instances and the analysis of patterns exhibited across collections of cases. Four important domains of research within conversation analysis are turn-taking, repair, action formation and ascription, and action sequencing.

Producing and learning to produce utterances in social interaction

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 207-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Dausendschön-Gay
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

Developmental research on first and second language acquisition is mainly concerned with cognitive, linguistic or pragmatic aspects of individual speech production treated separately and based on the tenets of separate disciplines or approaches (psycholinguistics, psychology of language, constructivism, conversation analysis). However, some studies try to integrate questions of language acquisition into the much broader context of social interaction in general. This paper argues in favour of such integration, taking a conversationalist perspective on speech and discourse production in social — face-to-face — interaction. In particular, it argues for the systematic integration of all kinds of body movements (traditionally called gestures) and prosody into the analysis of empirical data as a fundamental basis for the development of an interactional grammar and its study in an acquisitional research framework.

scholarly journals LITERACY WITHOUT BORDERS: THE FINE-GRAINED MINUTIAE OF SOCIAL INTERACTION THAT DO MATTER (ALSO IN PROMOTING HEALTH LITERACY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 330-352
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Ostermann ◽  
Minéia Frezza ◽  
Roberto Perobelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Fetal Ultrasound ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Risk Pregnancy

ABSTRACT This paper explores the fine-grained interactional minutiae involved in promoting health literacy in medical interactions. More specifically, it explores the multimodal interactional resources (verbal and nonverbal) that health professionals and lay participants mobilize in order to make sense of fetal ultrasound images. We adopt the ethnomethodological perspective of Multimodal Conversation Analysis (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974; GOODWIN, 1981; 2010; MONDADA, 2018) to investigate 10 audio and video interactions that were recorded during fetal ultrasound exams that took place at a moderate and high-risk pregnancy ward in a public hospital in Brazil. Our aim is to ‘make visible’ the multimodal ethnomethods that interactants employ in order to render ultrasound images intelligible ‘texts’. Among the various semiotic resources mobilized to achieve intersubjectivity in this complex setting, special focus is given to the healthcare professionals’ use of similes, and the fundamental importance of the temporality in which verbal and nonverbal resources are mobilized in the process of making images intelligible. In that sense, we hope to bring to this special thematic issue the methodological advantages that a Multimodal Conversation Analytic perspective can afford to the discussion about multiliteracies and, in practical terms, to the advancement of health literacy. In medical contexts, health literacy can (and perhaps should!) be a concern ‘at all points.’ There might be no ‘borders’ to what constitutes a health literacy source or resource. Our claims, thus, are the following: (i) ultrasound images do constitute materials to be ‘read’ and understood - also by lay participants; (ii) healthcare professionals can (and perhaps should) promote health literacy among patients by employing efforts to make images ‘readable’; and, finally, (iii) social interaction is one of the constitutive loci for the promotion of multiliteracy events.

The multimodal interactional organization of tasting: Practices of tasting cheese in gourmet shops

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 743-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenza Mondada
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Mutual Gaze ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Way

Taste is a central sense for humans and animals, and it has been largely studied either from physiological and neurological approaches or from socio-cultural ones. This paper adopts another view, focused on the activity of tasting rather than on the sense of taste, approached within the perspective of ethnomethodology and multimodal conversation analysis. This view addresses the activity of tasting as it is interactionally organized in specific social settings, observed in a naturalistic way, on the basis of video recordings. Focusing on video recorded improvised tastings of cheese in gourmet shop encounters, the paper offers a systematic analysis of the way in which tasting is orderly achieved in an intersubjective way. It follows the various steps characterizing tasting, from the invitation to taste, to the grasping of a bit to taste, which is put in the mouth, chewed, and swallowed; it details how an interactional moment offering the taster a priviledged, individual, focused space in which to devote exclusive attention to the object tasted is actively tailored by all parties. By contrast, the completion of tasting is marked by a return to mutual gaze, the animation of facial expressions and nods, and the final production of a judgment of taste. By offering a systematic reconstruction of how these tasting moments are organized, the paper invites to a multimodal approach of sensoriality in social interaction.

Self-authorizing action: On let me X in English social interaction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Elliott M. Hoey
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Person ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
Naturally Occurring

Abstract This article contributes to conversation analytic research on the formatting of imperative actions by focusing on the English first person imperative let me/lemme X as it appears in a range of naturally occurring interactions. I argue that lemme X is a practice for displacing what was projectably relevant in a given environment in favor of a self-authorized action. This as a result tends to advance the speaker's interests/initiatives. The analysis accounts for speakers’ apparent presumption of permission in unilaterally undertaking their lemme X action by reference to the placement, design, and subsequent orientations to the self-authorized action. The construction is discussed in terms of the distribution of agency and it is suggested that lemme X is particularly suited to advancing activities that favor autonomous action by the speaker and which involve the recipient only minimally. (Conversation analysis, imperatives, directives, English, agency)*

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