Applied conversation analysis: intervention and change in institutional talk

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 49-5739-49-5739
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Institutional Talk

scholarly journals Authority and camaraderie: The delivery of directives amongst the ice floes

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
Anne Elizabeth Clark White
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Environmental Stimuli ◽  
Institutional Talk ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Ice Floes ◽  
Method Analysis

ABSTRACTThis analysis focuses on the institutional talk of sea-kayak guides and their clients in order to understand how guides negotiate the interactional balance of giving orders to maintain a safe and timely excursion while facilitating a fun and recreational experience. Using a mixed-method analysis including Conversation Analysis, ethnography, and statistics, this study examines 576 instances of directives found in video recordings of twenty-five Alaskan kayaking ecotourism excursions and explores the practices guides use in their talk to maintain control of an excursion while not coming across as domineering. By systemically examining directives’ design, directives are found to reveal both their temporal urgency in addition to the precipitating events that necessitate them, such as client behaviors or environmental stimuli. This study's analysis contributes to our understanding of how interactants mitigate face-threatening actions and focuses attention on the interactional work that directives and their accounts achieve in an institutional setting currently underinvestigated (Directives, mixed-methods, Conversation Analysis, ethnography, ecotourism)*

scholarly journals Entry and Exit Strategies in English and Arabic

لارك ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (32) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Mohammed Abed Saleh Albadri ◽  
Salah Hadi Shuker
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Entry And Exit ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Institutional Talk ◽  
Ordinary Type ◽  
Harvey Sacks ◽  
Exit Strategies

From a sociolinguistic perspective, greetings and farewells are part of what Goffman (1963) calls the ethnography of encounter. These encounters are not randomly made. They are governed by a set of strategies which enable participants to enter and exit conversations in a socially accepted manner. Such strategies are tackled within the scope of conversation analysis, henceforth CA, which is an approach that studies talk in interaction. It grew out of the ethnomethodological tradition in sociology, embracing both verbal and non-verbal conduct. This approach is initiated during the late 1950s of the last century by the works of Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman, then, developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the sociologists Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. Today CA is an established method used in sociology, anthropology, linguistics, speech-communication and psychology. This study is going to detect entry and exit strategies in English and Arabic by analyzing two episodes of ‘The Doctors’ show in its American and Arabic versions. The study conveys this topic on two interrelated scales as it employs sociolinguistic and discourse perspectives altogether, discussing how the two approaches cooperate to give a comprehensible view of the nature of entering and exiting conversation. Meanwhile, the data to be analyzed does not convey an ordinary type of conversation but a special kind of conversation, that is called institutional talk. This involves some specialization and re-specification of the interactional relevance. It refers to conversations that take place under focused and specialized conditions like media, courts, educational institutions and health establishments (Gumperz, 2001: 218). For the most of our knowledge, such type of conversation is not expected to show everything about talk in interaction, yet, it shows a big deal of conformity to the premises of conversation analysis, and it appears to have a good amount of flexibility.

scholarly journals The grammar of proposals for joint activities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra A Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
American English ◽  
Joint Activity ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
Institutional Talk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
English Speaking

Abstract The action of proposing has been studied from various perspectives in research on talk-in-interaction, both in mundane as well as in institutional talk. Aiming to exemplify Interactional Linguistics as a drawing together of insights from Linguistics and Conversation Analysis, we explore the grammar of proposals and the stances displayed by participants in making proposals in the context of joint activities, where a future or hypothetical activity is being put forth as something the speaker and recipient(s) might do together. Close examination of interactions among American English-speaking adults reveals four recurrent grammatical formats for issuing proposals: Let’s, Why don’t we, Modal Declaratives, and Modal Interrogatives. We argue that these four formats for doing proposing within a joint activity are used in socially distinct environments, contributing to a growing understanding of the fit between entrenched linguistic patterns and the social work they have evolved to do.

A conversation analytical study of story-openings in advice-giving episodes in doctoral research supervision meetings

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-230
Author(s):  
Binh Thanh Ta
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Institutional Interaction ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Institutional Talk ◽  
Research Supervision ◽  
Advice Giving ◽  
Supervision Practices ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Interactional Functions

Interactional functions of story-opening in everyday conversations across different languages have been widely examined in Conversation Analysis (CA). However, there is a paucity in research on story-openings in institutional talk. This paper addresses this research gap by examining how story-opening contributes to advice-giving in doctoral research supervision. It draws on a data corpus of 57 storytelling sequences produced by six supervisors during 25 hours of video-recorded supervision meetings at an Australian university. The analysis shows that story-opening supports the on-going advice-giving activity in two ways. First, it invokes the supervisor’s knowledge and experience, which functions to strengthen the advice under way. Second, it works toward building a joint understanding with the student, thereby serving the supervisor’s pursuit of the student’s acceptance of advice. These findings have significant implications for research on storytelling in institutional interaction, advice and supervision practices.

scholarly journals Implicature Analysis of Adel Al-Jubeir Political Interview on Yemen Campaign

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Tri Pujiati ◽  
Abdulkhaleq Al-Rawafi ◽  
Darsita Suparno
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
Institutional Talk ◽  
Three Components ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Politicians use their political interviews to convey their thoughts towards their nations or others. This study aims to analyze conversation analysis and implicature of maxims being flouted by Adel Al-Jubeir regarding the Yemeni campaign, which started on 26th of March 2014. The study uses descriptive qualitative method. The data were institutional talk (Interview) conducted by Adel Al-Jubeir as IE (interviewee) and the journalist Wolf Blitzer as IR (interviewer) in the CNN channel in Washington. The data were analyzed according to Clayman and Heritage (2002) for conversation analysis and implicature of maxim based on Grice (1975). The results show two linguistic evidences. First, in institutional talks, conversation consists of three components, namely, opening, content, and closing. The opening includes the introduction, the content includes the announcement of the beginning of the campaign interface on Yemen and the Iranian nuclear program and its threat to Saudi Arabia, and the closing includes complete pairs (greetings). Second, for implicature analysis, the results show that Al-Jubeir being over-informative, stating more than required, represented with 82% of the quantity. He made a speech that he believed to be false, unjustified, and untruthful replies, representing 100% in the scale of quality. He gave irrelevant meaning to respond other participants’ utterances, representing 65% of maxim of relation. He gave unclear and indirect replies, representing 77% of maxim of manner. Besides, Al-Jubeir cooperated with IR. In addition, it can be summarized that he applied both particularized conversational and general implicature on political interview with some violation of the maxims as well.

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