Investigating teacher language: a comparison of the relative strengths of Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis as methods giLL BOAg - mUnrOE

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Hamzah Hamzah ◽  
Kurnia Ningsih

This study is aimed at exploring the way the English teachers at senior high schools exercise power and domination during the teaching and learning process. Conversation analysis and critical discourse analysis were used to analyze the data. The data were generated from thirty transcripts of classroom interaction comprising of two academic hour session for each transcript. The findings of this study revealed that the English teacher still exercised strong power and domination in the classroom. Most exchanges were initiated by the teacher (93%), and the students involvements were limited to providing responses in accordance with the information initiated by their teacher. The teachers’ domination was also seen in the length of the turns. The teachers normally had extended turn comprising one clause or more, while students’ contributions were normally short consisting of one word, one phrase, and one clause was the longest in each turn. Beside the two indicators, the teachers’ power and domination were seen in controlling the topic, giving instruction, asking close questions and providing correction. Key words: conversation, classroom discourse, power and domination


2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greer Cavallaro Johnson

This article builds on contemporary understandings that identity is accomplished interactionally and discursively through storyteller/interviewer engagement inside the telling of the story. It introduces a new notion of narrative inquiry through the concept of “transactional positioning” to achieve an imagined interaction between a listener outside the institutional interview context and a tale told in an interview narrative some time ago. Texts are arranged by a select listener in a pre-thought out way to imaginatively fill gaps between what the narrator said and what he could have said during the interview but did not. The intertextual activity on the part of the listener aims to expand, retrospectively, the positioning of the interviewee so as to make more visible his ideological dilemma, uncovered through conversation analysis and critical discourse analysis of an interview narrative about the social trauma of being an Italian-Australian interned during World War II.


Author(s):  
Ian Mason

Following a review of the methods employed in some recent studies, this paper proposes a wayforwardfor pragmatics-sensitive research into actual participant moves in community interpreting events. Its aim is to overcome some of the objections that have been raised to methods in critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis and pragmatics and to relate microlevel analysis of participants’ utterances to the broader issues of role, power distribution, norms and so on that have dominated discussion of interpreter-mediated communication. Adopting a broadly ostensive-inferential view of communication, we examine the nature of the evidence that can be adduced in support of causal models and suggest that it is to be found in the real-time responses of the participants themselves to each other ’s moves rather than in analysts’ imagined reconstruction of context, intentionality and acceptability.


LITERA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ribut Wahyu Eriyanti

This study aims to describe the construction and strategy of ideology expressions represented by the teacher language in classroom learning. It employed the critical qualitative approach through Critical Discourse Analysis. The data were collected through observations of learning in public and private junior high schools in Malang City. The findings are as follows. First, ideologies represented by the teacher language include: (a)students as the teacher’s subordinates, (b) the teacher as controller of students, (c) silence as the best way in learning, (d) students’ mistakes as taboos, (e) obedience as a success determinant, (f) differences in learning capabilities between males and females, (g) students possessing no autonomy and responsibility, (h) students’ obligation to serve the teacher,(i) students that need to be scared in order to learn, and (j) students’ basic tendency to lie. Second, such ideologies are expressed through the use of prohibition, command, words ideologically contested, lexicalization, irony, metaphor, eponym, and labeling.


1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greer Cavallaro Johnson

This paper presents a progressive understanding of the shifting power relations that are constructed in the telling of a courtship and marriage narrative by an Australian-Italian couple who have been married for well over thirty years. The focus on relations of power is pursued through attention to aspects of the sequenced talk to show how the couple work together to tell the interviewer a newsworthy story that is "old news" to each other. The use of two analytical frames derived from different combinations of narrative analysis (NA), conversational analysis (CA) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) facilitates two readings of the same data. The two frames provide different means of showing how the story tellers negotiate and happily survive specific threats to produce a congenially delivered story in the end. The use of first, a "bottom-up" approach to the data followed by a "top-down" approach enables power relations first at the local level between husband and wife to be inserted later into a wider ideological and discursive context. Overall the paper shows how the application of multiple perspectives to narrative analysis can deepen our understanding of storytelling practices. (Narrative analysis, Conversation analysis, Critical discourse analysis)


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