Managing a Delicate Telling in an Adult ESL Classroom: A Single Case Analysis

Abstract Adopting a single case analysis, this article examines how the learning of the Japanese word burikko is occasioned in a bilingual lunch conversation through enactments that are employed for three interactional purposes: (a) renewal of laughter, (b) vocabulary explanation (VE), and (c) demonstration of understanding. The interactional analysis is enhanced by Praat to respecify the role of prosody in enactments. I first describe how burikko, the laughable of a humor sequence, becomes a learnable through a repair sequence. I then analyze a reinitiated joking sequence, where the VE recipient categorizes one of the co-participants as burikko and escalates the categorization through multimodal enactments. I argue that this jocular mockery, occasioning a demonstration of understanding, exhibits that the learning opportunity has been taken. Furthermore, I discuss how a repair work embedded within a larger humor-oriented activity may afford resources for language learning outside of the classroom, while sacrificing progressivity for intersubjectivity. The fact that the VE recipient, after intersubjectivity has been achieved, resumes the original activity of pursuing humor through the same means employed for the explanation of the target word offers interesting implications for CA-SLA and pragmatics.

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Indeterminacy and Uncertainty in the Delivery of Diagnostic News in Internal Medicine: A Single Case Analysis

Studies in Language and Social Interaction ◽

10.4324/9781410606969-31 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 345-361

Keyword(s):

Internal Medicine ◽

Single Case ◽

Case Analysis

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A very delayed acceptance to an invitation in a French conversation

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Series S ◽

10.1075/aralss.11.08bar ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 153-172 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anne-Marie Barraja-Rohan

Keyword(s):

Conversation Analysis ◽

Single Case ◽

Case Analysis ◽

Telephone Conversation ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

Transcription System

Abstract Many studies have been concerned with sequence organisation, adjacency pairs and preference organisation in English conversations. However, there is a need to investigate how these structures apply to other languages, and this paper undertakes such a task in analysing a French telephone conversation. In the conversation analysed, the two base parts of an invitation sequence, the invitation and its acceptance, are separated by 113 turns of talk. The methodology uses the Jeffersonian transcription system and Conversation Analysis techniques. What is remarkable about the data analysed in this study is its striking similarities to an English conversation examined by Schegloff (1990). The parallels with Schegloff’s single case analysis constitute evidence of a phenomenon equally occurring in French, with a massive delay between the first pair part (FPP) and the second pair part (SPP) and the complex local organisation and expansion sequences that result from it.

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Effects of Behavioral Intervention and Interpersonal Feedback on Fear and Avoidance Components of Severe Agoraphobia: A Case Analysis

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1981.49.2.595 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 595-605 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. T. De Voge ◽

Tomas Minor ◽

Paul Karoly

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Interventions ◽

Single Case ◽

Case Analysis ◽

Treatment Conditions ◽

Dependent Variables ◽

Per Se ◽

Interpersonal Feedback ◽

Self Instruction ◽

Travel Distances

Four treatments with a severe agoraphobic were compared in a single-case analysis in which daily anxiety, self-appraisal, Valium intake, and mileage ridden in a car were dependent variables. Treatment conditions sequentially added were relaxation, self-instruction, cognitive restructuring, and interpersonal feedback. Behavioral interventions produced desired changes in anxiety, Valium intake, and self-appraisal, but only after interpersonal feedback did these treatments influence avoidant behavior per se (mileage). A 16-mo. (post-treatment) follow-up showed that, while the patient continued to travel distances from his home which were roughly equivalent to those attained in Phase 4 of treatment, his travels were mainly confined to an area within a 5-mi. radius of his home. This adjustment was accompanied by far fewer hospitalizations, relative freedom from panic, and more expressed interest in family and sexual matters (the latter verified by spouse).

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The Impact of Singing in Caring for a Person With Dementia: Single Case Analysis of Video Recorded Sessions

Music and Medicine ◽

10.1177/1943862110386048 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 95-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

G. Engstrom ◽

L. Marmstal Hammar ◽

C. Williams ◽

E. Gotell

Keyword(s):

Single Case ◽

Case Analysis ◽

Person With Dementia ◽

The Impact

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Economic-financial journalists as argumentative intermediaries

Journal of Argumentation in Context ◽

10.1075/jaic.5.1.05roc ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 88-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Andrea Rocci ◽

Margherita Luciani

Keyword(s):

Single Case ◽

Case Analysis ◽

Newspaper Article ◽

Press Releases ◽

News Reporting ◽

The Press ◽

Ethnographic Methodology ◽

Cross Fertilization

The paper offers a single-case analysis of newsmaking discourse, considering the source, the writing process and the news product from the vantage point of argumentation. The case study examines how a journalist of the business-finance desk of a generalist newspaper copes with the argumentative and persuasive nature of the corporate press releases on financial results on which he depends for his reporting. The paper contributes to the understanding of journalistic practices in the economy-finance desk showing that even within the constrained genre of hard news reporting and despite the epistemic and practical limitations of newsmaking practices the journalist does not renounce to a critical stance towards the argumentation in the source. This is done without fully and explicitly assuming the argumentative roles of antagonist and protagonist of alternative standpoints but rather by rhetorically framing the reader in these roles. Methodologically, the paper showcases a two-way cross-fertilization between argumentation theory and the ethnography of newsmaking. The newsmaking process joining the press release and the newspaper article is analyzed in vivo thanks to the ethnographic methodology of Progression Analysis (PA). Progression Analysis provides a new kind of evidence for argumentative reconstruction, while argumentative reconstruction provides an explicit framework for comparing source and product texts and for laying down the reasoning behind the journalist’s decision making as elicited by (PA).

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