Here is some information on recent books, published in the years,
2004-'11.
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Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann, Mirka Rauniomaa, eds. (2014) Interacting with Objects: Language, Materiality, and Social Activity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
393 pages
Hardcover: EUR 99.00, USD 149.00
ISBN 9789027212139
e-Book: EUR 99.00, USD 149.00
ISBN 9789027269836
'Establishing joint orientation towards commercial objects in a self-service
store: How practices of categorisation matter', Elwys De Stefani, 271 –
294
'Artworks as touchable objects: Guiding perception in a museum tour
for blind people', Yaël Kreplak and Chloé Mondémé,
295 – 318
'Incidental and essential objects in interaction: Paper documents in
journalistic work', Alexandra Weilenmann and Gustav Lymer, 319 – 338
'Envisioning the plan in interaction: Configuring pipes during a plumbers’
meeting', Shinichiro Sakai, Ron Korenaga, Yoshifumi Mizukawa and Motoko
Igarashi, 339 – 356
'Instructed objects', Timothy Koschmann and Alan Zemel, 357 – 378
Epilogue
'Trajectories of the object in interaction', Ben Matthews, 381-388
Objects are critical to the ways in which we produce and make sense of conduct. And yet, we can still paraphrase Bruno Latour over twenty years on to ask this question of most accounts of society: "where are the missing masses of objects?" This collection powerfully responds. It contains insightful and sophisticated analyses of how we use objects as interactional resources and, in so doing, how we constitute the sense and significance of those very same objects. As a result, it is a delight for everyone interested in the 'stuff' of social life.
From the sound made by the hoover to the knitting produced by needles, this exciting collection analyses how objects feature in everyday, educational and technical activities. While we might assume the qualities of an object to be constant and consistent, we learn from this book how these qualities are re-shaped from moment-to-moment. It brings the lived, intended and accomplished qualities of objects into the heart of current work in conversation analysis and ethnomethodology. At the same time it brings conversation analysis and ethnomethodology into the heart of research on objects and materiality.
Interacting with Objects is a unique collection of empirical studies. It takes seriously that there is no such thing as an object simpliciter; there are only objects in, for and of activities. Through detailed analyses of video recordings of diverse interactions in which various objects are perceived and manipulated, the contributors beautifully demonstrate that features of an object are intrinsically lodged in the spatial and temporal unfolding of each distinct activity. Objects shape, and are shaped by, ongoing action. This is an insightful and important book, and provides the foundation for all future studies on the subject.
Austin taught us that speaking is doing things with words. Nevile et al. now show us that talk does not occur in a material vacuum, but crucially involves using things for communicative purposes. With the methodological rigor of video-based multimodal interaction analysis, the authors illuminate how objects figure in structuring communicative encounters, how their use enhances participants’ opportunities for action and how objects are collaboratively produced. The rich universe of the fine grained coordination of verbal interaction, bodily conduct and manipulation of objects in social practice is deployed before the readers’ eyes in fascinating detail. This book will be indispensable for everybody who is interested in a comprehensive understanding of embodied communicative conduct in real world situations.
This book shows how the formulation of the concept of ‘objects’ provides an approach to studies which use an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective: ‘objects’ are considered as ‘situated resources’ and as ‘practical accomplishments’. Empirical studies using data from video taped recordings of naturally occurring interaction are analyzed in detail to show how social interaction and ordinary actions can achieve this feat, for participants.
Bovet, Alain; Esther González-Martínez, Fabienne Malbois, eds. (2014) Langage, activités et ordre social: Faire de la sociologie avec Harvey Sacks. Bern, etc.: Peter Lang
224 p. ISBN 978-3-0343-1475-6 br. (Softcover)
€ 33.30, £ 27.00, US$ 43.95
294 pages
Hardback: $135.00
978-0-415-72839-3
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the production and consumption of video by both professionals and amateurs. The near ubiquity of devices with video cameras and the rise of sites like YouTube have lead to the growth and transformation of the practices of producing, circulating, and viewing video, whether it be in households, workplaces, or research laboratories.
This volume builds a foundation for studies of activities based in and around video production and consumption. It contributes to the interdisciplinary field of visual methodology, investigating how video functions as a resource for a variety of actors and professions.
‘A unique and insightful collection of essays, carefully crafted video-based studies of video practice, that reveal how visual media increasingly inform and enable everyday social interaction, be it interaction between friends and family, collaborative video games, or the production of highly complex, organisational activities. This book is an important and original contribution to contemporary studies of technology in action and our understanding of language use and social interaction.’
Part 1: Shooting
1. ‘Shooting Video as a Research Activity: Video Making as a Form of
Proto-Analysis’, Lorenza Mondada, 33-62
2. ‘Pans,Tilts, and Zooms. Conventional Camera Gestures in TV Production’,
Mathias Broth, 63-96
3. ‘The Surgeon as a Camera Director: Maneuvering Video in the Operating
Theatre’, Lorenza Mondada, 97-132
Part 2: Showing
4. ‘Mundane Video Directors in Interaction. Showing One's Environment
in Skype and Mobile Video Calls’, Christian Licoppe and Julien Morel, 135-160
5. ‘The Use of Video in Dental Education: Clinical Reality Addressed
as Practical Matters of Production, Interpretation, and Instruction’, Oskar
Lindwall, Elin Johansson, Jonas Ivarsson, Hans Rystedt, and Claes Reit,
161-180
6. ‘Cameras in Video Games: Comparing Play in Counter- Strike and the
Doctor Who Adventures’, Eric Laurier and Stuart Reeves, 181-207
7. ‘The Televisual Accountability of Reality TV: The Visual Morality
of Musical Performances in Talent Shows’, Alain Bovet, Philippe Sormani,
and Cédric Terzi, 208-233
Part 3: Assembling
8. ‘The Intersubjective Work of Imagination in Film Editing: Proposals,
Suggestions, Re-iterations, Directions, and Other Ways of Producing Possible
Sequences’, Eric Laurier and Barry Brown, 208-233
9. ‘Dealing with Time, Just in Time: Sense-making and Clip Allocation
in Mult-Person, Multi-Stream, Live Play TV Production’, Mark Perry, Oskar
Juhlin, and Arvid Engström, 262--285
208 pp. / 6.00 x 9.00 / May, 2014
Paperback (978-1-61132-980-3)
Hardback (978-1-61132-979-7)
eBook (978-1-61132-754-0)
This book is a concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science. Garfinkel is practically synonymous with ethnomethodology, an approach that since the 1960s has led to major analytic and methodological developments in sociology and other disciplines. This introduction to Garfinkel explores how he developed ethnomethodology under the influence of Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schutz, situates it within sociology generally, and demonstrates its important influence on recent developments in the discipline, particularly the sociology of science and technology, gender studies, organization studies, and the computer sciences. The book will be of wide interest in the social sciences and a useful supplement to courses on intellectual history and methodology.
"Dirk vom Lehn has performed a vital service to the whole sociological community . . . The whole body of Garfinkel’s writing is explored, from early career writings— which have only been published in recent years— to the re-energized intellectual radicalism of his late works, where he located ethnomethodology’s concern for orderliness as an authentic tradition in sociology. This book explains key elements of Garfinkel’s thinking in more accessible language and smoothes the way to reading the originals."
Luca Greco, Lorenza Mondada, Patrick Renaud, eds. Identités en interaction, Limoges, Lambert Lucas
La notion d’« identité » traverse de nombreux cadres théoriques, domaines disciplinaires et approches méthodologiques tout en alimentant régulièrement le débat public. Si elle est abondamment étudiée, revisitée et critiquée en sciences sociales, sa conceptualisation reste à développer en linguistique. Les contributions de chercheur.e.s issu.e.s de la sociologie, de l’anthropologie, de la linguistique et de la psychologie ici réunies proposent une vision située, incarnée et performative de l’identité telle qu’elle émerge, est négociée et se stabilise au fil de l’interaction. Sur la base de données audio-vidéo enregistrées dans différents contextes, elles explorent une grande diversité de situations – réunions de travail, interactions entre pairs, dans les institutions et les associations… Elles montrent comment l’identité est assemblée par les interactant.e.s qui jouent avec les rapports de genre, les choix de langue en situation plurilingue, la légitimité professionnelle et les troubles langagiers, dans une perspective résolument praxéologique de l’identité.
1 L. Greco (Paris 3) et L. Mondada (Bâle) - Les identités-en-interaction : vers une approche multidimensionnelle - P. 7-28
I. Identités et rapports de genre
2 M. H. Goodwin (UCLA) - Constructing the Identity of a “Tagalong” Girl”
- P. 29-44
3 L. Greco (Paris3) - « Quel est ton personnage ? » : l’accomplissement
situé des identités dans un atelier bruxellois de Drag King
- P. 45-66
II. Identités et plurilinguisme
4 V. Traverso (ICAR CNRS Lyon 2) - Positionnements identitaires multiples
dans une réunion plurilingue : traces dans l'interaction et effets
structurants - P. 67-86
5 S. Merlino, L. Mondada (Bâle) - Identités fluides dans
le travail interactionnel du traducteur improvisé - P. 87-114
III. Identités et espaces de travail / institutions
6 B. Bonu (Montpellier 3) - L'interaction de part et d'autre des barreaux
:catégorisations dans la vidéocommunication - P. 115-136
7 R. Galatolo (Bologna) - Identities in Court: participation framework
and the judge’s role - P. 137-156
8 E. Gonzales (Fribourg) - Etre par l'action. Production d'une enquête
sociale et de ses participants - P. 157-180
IV. Troubles langagiers et logiques catégorielles
9 C. Antaki (Loughborough) - Repeating a question near-identically
may cast the answerer as intellectually impaired - P. 181-192
10 F. Cruz (Sao Paulo) - Categorizations of patients diagnosed with
Alzheimer's: alternative membership categorization devices displayed by
participants in talk-in-interaction - P. 193-214
Hardbound ISBN 9789027226358 | EUR 105.00 | USD 158.00
In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. Amongst the issues being explored are the role and relevance of traditionally accepted linguistic units for the analysis of naturally occurring talk, and the identification of new units of conduct in interaction. While some chapters make suggestions on how existing linguistic units can be adapted to suit the study of conversation, others present radically new perspectives on how language in interaction should be described, conceptualised and researched. The chapters present empirical investigations into different languages (Danish, English, Japanese, Mandarin, Swedish) in a variety of settings (private and institutional), considering both linguistic and embodied resources for talk. In addressing the fundamental question of units, the volume pushes at the boundaries of current debates and contributes original new insight into the nature of language in interaction.
Part II. Units of action and interaction
Price: $90.00
Hardcover/Electronic - 310 pages
ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4620-2
Pioneered by Harold Garfinkel in the 1950s and ’60s, ethnomethodology
is a sociological approach rooted in phenomenology that is concerned with
investigating the unspoken rules according to which people understand and
create order in unstructured situations. Based on more than thirty years
of teaching ethnomethodology, Kenneth Liberman—himself a student of Garfinkel’s—provides
an up-to-date introduction through a series of classroom-based studies.
Each chapter focuses on a routine experience in which people collaborate
to make sense of and coordinate an unscripted activity: organizing the
coherence of the rules of a game, describing the objective taste of a cup
of gourmet coffee, making sense of intercultural conversation, reading
a vague map, and finding order amidst chaotic traffic flow. Detailed descriptions
of the kinds of ironies that naturally arise in these and other ordinary
affairs breathe new life into phenomenological theorizing and sociological
understanding.
This book offers some of the liveliest and freshest of all ethnomethodological studies. We see why a busy intersection full of pedestrians, bikes, and autos has smoother traffic flow when participants work out their own coordinating devices than when formal rules are enforced; why people in India who swarm a service gate rather than queuing up or taking turns have an orderly efficiency of their own. How Tibetan debates punctuated by rhythmic handclaps make philosophy more engrossing and deeply communicative than Western content-obsessed debating styles; and why maps never provide complete directions but depend on users sustaining an embodied sense of the terrain. Ken Liberman makes the tradition of phenomenological inquiry as user-friendly as it has ever been.
1. The Local Orderliness of Crossing Kincaid
2. Following Sketched Maps
3. The Reflexivity of Rules in Games
4. Communicating Meanings
5. Some Local Strategies for Surviving Intercultural Conversations
6. “There is a Gap” in the Tibetological Literature
7. Choreographing the Orderliness of Tibetan Philosophical Debates
8. The Phenomenology of Coffee Tasting: Lessons in Practical Objectivity
Conclusion: Respecifying the Husserl’s Phenomenology as Situated Worldly
Inquiries
Part 1 Varieties of Laughter
2 Alexa Hepburn, Scott Varney: ‘Beyond ((laughter)): Some notes on transcription’.
25-38
3 Keiko Ikeda, Don Bysouth: ‘Laughter and Turn-taking: Warranting
next speakership in multiparty interactions’. 39-64
Part 2 Laughs in Turns
4 Elizabeth Holt:‘“There’s many a true word said in jest”: Seriousness
and non-seriousness in interaction’. 69-90
5 Chloe Shaw, Alexa Hepburn, Jonathan Potter: ‘Having the last
laugh: On post completion laughter particles’. 91-106
6 Claudia Anna Ticca: ‘The emergence of laughter during serious
talk in bilingual medical consultations’. 107-130
Part 3 Laughs In Sequences
7 Tim Auburn, Christianne Pollock: ‘Laughter and competence: Children
with severe autism using laughter to joke and tease’. 135-60
8 Marilena Fatigante, Franca Orletti: ‘Laughter and smiling in a three-party
medical encounter: negotiating participants’ alignment in delicate moments’.
161-184
9 Christine Jacknick: ‘“Cause the textbook says…”: Laughter and student
challenges in the ESL classroom’. 185-200
10 Tanya Romaniuk: ‘Interviewee laughter and disaffiliation in broadcast
news interviews’.
201-220
Part 4 Laughter and Identity
11 Rebecca Clift ‘No laughing matter: laughter and resistance in the
construction of identity’: 223-236
12 Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain: ‘Constructing identities
through laughter’. 237-254
13 Phillip Glenn ‘Interviewees volunteered laughter in employment interviews:
A case of ‘nervous’ laughter?’. 255-75
Haddington, Pentti, Lorenza Mondada, Maurice Nevile eds. (2013) Interaction and Mobility: Language and the Body in Motion. Berlin: De Gruyter.
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=11354&edition_id=11707&calcTitle=1
Published: May 2013
Format: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 352 pages
Binding: Hardback
Other editions: ebook ePUB, ebook PDF
ISBN: 978-1-4094-3755-0
ISBN Short: 9781409437550
This book outlines the specific character of the ethnomethodological approach to 'play'; that is, to everyday sport and leisure activities that people generally engage in for enjoyment, at home or as a 'hobby'.
With chapters on cooking, running, playing music, dancing, rock climbing, sailing, fly fishing and going out for the day as a family, Ethnomethodology at Play provides an introduction to the key conceptual resources drawn upon by ethnomethodology in its studies of these activities, whilst exploring the manner in which people 'work' at their everyday leisure.
Demonstrating the breadth of ethnomethodological analysis and showing how no topic is beyond ethnomethodology's fundamental respecification, Ethnomethodology at Play sets out for the serious reader and researcher the precise contribution of ethnomethodology to sociological studies of sport and leisure and ordinary domestic pastimes. As such this groundbreaking volume constitutes a significant contribution to both ethnomethodology and sociology in general, as well as to the sociology of sport and leisure, the sociology of domestic and daily life and cultural studies.
Contents: Introduction: overview: Garfinkel’s bastards at play, Mark Rouncefield and Peter Tolmie; Part I Domestic Pleasures: Cooking for pleasure, Andy Crabtree, Peter Tolmie and Mark Rouncefield; Reading for pleasure: bedtime stories, Peter Tolmie and Mark Rouncefield. Part II Having a Hobby: Identifying birds by their song, Paul ten Have; Seeing fish, Michael Lynch; All at sea: the use of practical formalisms in yachting, Graham Button and Wes Sharrock; Remixing music together: the use and abuse of virtual studio software as a hobby, Phillip Brooker and Wes Sharrock. Part III ‘Getting Out of the House’: A day out in the country, Peter Tolmie and Andy Crabtree; Playing dangerously: an ethnomethodological view upon rock-climbing, K. Neil Jenkings; Distance running as play/work: training-together as a joint accomplishment, John Hockey and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson. Part IV Doing Stuff Together: Playing in Irish music sessions, Peter Tolmie, Steve Benford and Mark Rouncefield; Vine right, shimmy, shimmy! Accomplishing order in a line dancing class, Russell Kelly; Encounters at the counter: the relationship between regulars and staff, Eric Laurier; Bibliography; Index.
About the Editor: Peter Tolmie is Senior Research
Fellow in the School of Computer Science and IT at the University of Nottingham,
UK, and co-editor of Ethnomethodology at Work.
Mark Rouncefield is Senior Research Fellow in the
Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK, and co-editor of Ethnomethodology
at Work.
'A delightful set of essays that reveal the intricacies, the complexities of play and pleasure and provide a highly distinctive contribution to our understanding of the expertise and sensibilities that underpin sporting, leisure and cultural activities.'
‘Between sociologists wanting to look at the social benefits of and cultural theorists critiquing the sexuality of games as a source of domination, one is left wondering what actually gets done when people play. This collection is one of the first to look at just this. Tolmie and Rouncefield’s book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the empirical study of play and games in society.’
Makoto Hayashi, Geoffrey Raymond,
Jack Sidnell, eds. (2013) Conversational Repair and Human Understanding.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics(No. 30)
Hardback
ISBN:9781107002791
394pages
Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding
are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair'
and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms
of human interaction. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings
together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication,
linguistics and sociology to explore how speakers address problems in their
own talk and that of others, and how the practices of repair are interwoven
with non-verbal aspects of communication such as gaze and gesture, across
a variety of languages. Specific chapters highlight intersections between
repair and epistemics, repair and turn construction, and repair and action
formation. Aimed at researchers and students in sociolinguistics, speech
communication, conversation analysis and the broader human and social sciences
to which they contribute - anthropology, linguistics, psychology and sociology
- this book provides a state-of-the-art review of conversational repair,
while charting new directions for future study.
'Repair is absolutely central to any analysis of language and social life as self-organizing natural systems. Here, major scholars insightfully demonstrate repair's relevance to action formation, human understanding and language diversity. A central resource!'
'...breaks new ground in our understanding of human interaction, and of conversational repair in particular. Essential reading for anyone analysing talk and interaction'.
Christian Heath (2013) The dynamics of auction: social interaction and the sale of fine art and antiques. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
ISBN:9780521767408 Hardback 260pages £60.00 (Paperback not yet
available)
Each year art and antiques worth many billions of pounds are sold at auction. These auctions consist of numerous, intense episodes of social interaction through which the price of goods rapidly escalates until sold on the strike of a hammer. In this book, Christian Heath examines the fine details of interaction that arises at auctions, the talk and visible conduct of the participants and their use of various tools and technologies. He explores how auctioneers, buyers and their representatives are able to transact the sale of diversely priced goods in just seconds. Heath addresses how order, trust and competition are established at auctions and demonstrates how an economic institution of some global importance is founded upon embodied action and interaction. The analysis is based on video recordings of sales of art and antiques gathered within a range of national and international auction houses in Europe and the United States.
This Handbook chronicles fifty years of efforts by clinicians, medical scientists, and social science researchers to closely examine communication during medical interviews. Fifty-two chapters have been integrated to provide readers with a diverse sampling of significant contributions during this extended period. The book is a rich tapestry of fundamental questions, innovative methodological approaches, well-reasoned arguments, insightful findings, and grounded suggestions for improving communication during medical interviews. It includes investigations designed to explicate and resolve communication dilemmas, envision therapeutic possibilities, and create hopeful yet realistic futures for patient-provided collaborations and partnerships.
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444332082.html
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3208-7 Hardcover
844 pages
October,/ €148.80
Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis brings together contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable information resource and reference for scholars of social interaction across the areas of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, interpersonal communication, discursive psychology and sociolinguistics.
Ideal as an introduction to the field for upper level undergraduates
and as an in-depth review of the latest developments for graduate level
students and established scholars
Five sections outline the history and theory, methods, fundamental
concepts, and core contexts in the study of conversation, as well as topics
central to conversation analysis
Written by international conversation analysis experts, the book covers
a wide range of topics and disciplines, from reviewing underlying structures
of conversation, to describing conversation analysis' relationship to anthropology,
communication, linguistics, psychology, and sociology
Finally, the state of the art in Conversation Analysis is presented in a concise handbook. Over five decades, CA has been used to study talk-in-interaction, profoundly influencing research disciplines concerned with human interaction. A comprehensive account of CA in this detail and quality has never been published before. The community is indebted to Jack Sidnell and Tanya Stivers.
A must-read for every student of human interaction. It captures the outstanding interdisciplinary reach of CA and offers fresh perspectives on foundational issues: its voices are authoritative and inspirational.
An authoritative, wide-ranging overview of conversation analysis, an ideal tool for advanced students finding their way in doing CA, but useful for all CA practitioners.
£55.00 | Hardback
ISBN: 9780230276697 |
280 pages
As well as appealing to applied linguists and social scientists with an interest in workplace communication, Developing Interactional Competence is a valuable resource for researchers, teachers, and practitioners involved in health communication training. Its analytic framework makes it essential reading for anyone attracted by a multidimensional and practice-specific approach to understanding interactional competence.
Nguyen's book is one of the very few original contributions made by applied linguists to the debate over what constitutes learning. She reviews theories of cognitive and behavioral change, of the complementary roles of learners and teachers, and she queries the reluctance by some discourse analysts to even recognize the concept of learning. Out of this mass of conflicting claims and contradictory positions, Nguyen steps forward with a longitudinal analysis of the interactions of two novice pharmacists as they begin to exercise their professional skills in counseling patients. Do they learn? From every theoretical perspective they do. And what they learn is how to effectively counsel their patients: how to sequence their actions, how to manage topics, how to respond to their patients' concerns, how to make their expertise accessible to their patients, and how to share their patients' perspectives. Through her insightful analysis of learning in these interactions, Nguyen makes an important contribution to the learning debate and provides valuable advice for professional trainers.
This significant book applies conversation analysis (CA) uniquely to the consultation process between patients and pharmacists. Although schools of pharmacy have long embraced and taught pharmacy students to provide patient-centered consultation, repeated studies have documented that community pharmacists rarely ask patients open ended questions, tailor their consultations to patients or engage patients effectively to monitor the adverse and efficacious effects of regimens at refill times. Pharmacy schools can learn a great deal from CA's micro-analytic skills as modeled here to identify key elements in the sequence that hinder or facilitate meaningful exchanges between patients and pharmacists. Uniquely the book tracks the growing skills of two novice pharmacists in a way never before presented in Pharmacy. We have much to learn from this careful study's research approach and findings in order to better train our students and evaluate their licensure readiness.
208 Pages, Date of publication 2/2012
ISBN 978-3-936656-40-4
Free download: http://www.verlag-gespraechsforschung.de/2012/egbert.html
Globally, hearing loss is the second most frequent disability. About
80% of the persons affected by hearing loss do not use hearing aids. The
goal of this edited volume is to present a theoretically founded, interdisciplinary
approach geared at understanding and improving social interaction impacted
by hearing loss and (non-)use of hearing technologies.
The researchers report on pilot studies from Australia, Denmark, Finland,
Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Using Conversation Analysis, the studies
identify problems and serve as points of departure for possible solutions.
Researchers and practitioners from the different disciplines (medicine,
audiology, hearing rehabilitation, User Centered Design, Conversation Analysis,
change business) as well as users of hearing technologies comment on this
approach.
Table of contents in PDF: http://www.verlag-gespraechsforschung.de/2012/pdf/hearingaids-inhalt.pdf
Pentti Haddington, Leila Kääntä, eds. (2011) Kieli, keho ja vuorovaikutus: Multimodaalinen näkökulma sosiaaliseen toimintaan (Language, body and interaction: A multimodal perspective into social action). Helsinki: Publisher: Finnish Literature Society (SKS)
Language, Body and Interaction provides a multidisciplinary perspective into everyday and naturally-occurring social interaction. It studies the ways in which interactants draw on, in addition to language and talk, diverse multimodal means (gestures, body, objects, materials, space, mobility) and resources for communicating with each other. The book draws on the insights and findings made in conversation analysis and gives a unique perspective to Finnish research on multimodal interaction in diverse everyday and institutional settings. The book’s introduction also provides an overview of internationally important research in gesture studies and conversation analytic research that has specifically focused on embodied and multimodal action.
The authors include acknowledged experts in conversation analysis and multimodal interaction analysis in Finland and internationally. They represent different disciplines (linguistics, sociology, logopedics and educational sciences) and universities in Finland.
Authors: Pentti Haddington, Aku Kallio, Inka Koskela, Leila Kääntä, Minna Laakso, Mari Lehtinen, Maarit Niemelä, Arja Piirainen-Marsh, Mirka Rauniomaa, Johanna Ruusuvuori, Liisa Tainio
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 214] 2011. xiv, 173
pp.
Hb 978 90 272 5617 1 EUR 90.00
E-book 978 90 272 8465 5 EUR 90.00
The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and
practical achievements: it is a “member phenomenon”. To document this statement,
it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices
in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and events,
on what is factual or objective, on predictability, consequentiality, intentionality,
causality, and on the many ways people orient to them, such a varied set
of questions appears thoroughly moral. The praxeological respecifcation
this book undertakes leads to important considerations regarding the question
of morality in ordinary reasoning, and the categories and categorizations
on which that morality is based: moral values are publicly available; morality
has a modal logic; moral values and conventions have an open texture; objectivity
is a practical achievement carried out by members of society; the moral
order is an omnipresent, constitutive characteristic of social practice.
“It is a fne book that will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, and sociolinguists, as well as any social scientist interested in contemporary Islamic society.”
“This volume by Baudouin Dupret is immensely interesting and informative, and, more signifcantly, it is very original in not only its substantive areas of analysis, but, and here is the nub of its genuine originality, its focus upon a way of thinking about ethnomethodology which uses it as a way of describing the logic of recurrent social situations in many diferent contexts and circumstances. This is defnitely a huge contribution. [...] A really illuminating piece of scholarship. We are truly fortunate to have this level of work addressed to issues in our feld.”
Baudouin Dupret (2011) Adjudication
in action: An ethnomethodology of law, morality and justice. Farnham,
Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate
Series : Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
374 pages, Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-3150-3, Price : £60.00 »
Website price: £54.00
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=11117&edition_id=14564&calcTitle=1
Adjudication in Action describes the moral dimension of judicial activities and the judicial approach to questions of morality, observing the contextualized deployment of various practices and the activities of diverse people who, in different capacities, find themselves involved with institutional judicial space. Exploring the manner in which the enactment of the law is morally accomplished, and how practical, legal cognition mediates and modulates the treatment of cases dealing with sexual morality, this book offers a rich, praxeological study that engages with 'living' law as it unfolds in action.
Inspired by Wittgenstein's later thought and engaging with recent developments in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Adjudication in Action challenges approaches that reduce the law to mere provisions of a legal code, presenting instead an understanding of law as a resource that stands in need of contextualization. Through the close description of people's orientation to and reification of legal categories within the framework of institutional settings, this book constitutes the first comprehensive study of law in context and in action.
Based in the analysis of work, sequential organization and membership categorization in a collection of Egyptian legal proceedings including a trial for perversion and debauchery (homosexuality), Dupret gives us the most sustained attempt yet at a praxeology of judicial activity, re-specifying such legal objects as fact, person, intention, cause and judgement in relation to morality (above all), rationality, normality, language, context, rule, action, and text. It’s a remarkable tour de force.
Hardback £60.00 ISBN 9780230229952,
Paperback £19.99 ISBN 9780230229969
Each of us is highly skilled at designing our turns at talk, and meshing them with those of the people around us. Conversation Analysis (CA) is the study of just how that is done, and how the choreography of conversation brings off the business we conduct with each other.
Conversation Analysis is beginning to have a strong record not only of understanding interaction, but also of seeing how it might be changed. This volume collects together some of the most exciting developments in CA as it is applied to intervention programmes in medical communication, speech therapy, mediation, welfare interviewing, surveying, telephone helplines and other institutional encounters. The contributors explain the difficulties and the benefits of applying CA in the real world, and with working with external agencies like government institutions, charities and the medical establishment.
‘This groundbreaking volume stands as an important milestone in the development of Conversation Analysis. It brings together works devoted to the use of Conversation Analysis to address practical problems in which human interaction plays a central role. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field, demonstrate the wide-ranging utility of this approach for problems in areas ranging from medicine, psychotherapy, and telephone help lines to survey research, mediation, and technology design. The introduction situates these studies within the broader field of conversation analysis, and provides a useful roadmap to the main variants of applied CA and the key issues that inform work seeking to intervene and remediate interaction-based problems in social life.’
‘For the first time, important CA studies are brought together to make the case that basic insights about interaction can be utilized to change, improve, and refine skills for accomplishing activities fundamental to diverse social institutions. The result is an important move toward establishing how relevant research can be translated into innovative and effective strategies. This volume is a trigger for reflecting on a horizon of possibilities that arise when realizing that CA is, after all, a natural science that has and will continue to benefit the world in as yet unanticipated and vital ways.‘
‘A highly insightful and illuminating collection of studies that powerfully demonstrate how the fine-grained analysis of talk and interaction, [this volume] provides a distinctive contribution to our understanding of social organisation and social institutions, and in turn reveals important implications for policy and practice.’
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How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources (such as gaze and gesture) to bring about coherent and intelligible courses of action? How are physical settings, artifacts, technologies, and non-linguistic sign-systems implicated in social interaction and shared cognition? This volume brings together advanced work by leading international scholars who share video-based research methods that integrate semiotic, linguistic, sociological, anthropological, and cognitive science perspectives with detailed, microanalytic observations. Collectively they provide a coherent framework for analyzing the production of meaning and the organization of social interaction in the complex and heterogeneous settings that are characteristic of modern life: ranging from ordinary and bilingual conversation to family interaction, and from daycare centers to work settings such as airplanes, clinics, and architects' offices, and to activities such as auctions and musical performances. Several chapters investigate how participants with communicative impairments (aphasia, blindness, deafness) creatively build meaning with others. Embodied Interaction is indispensable for anyone interested in the study of language and social interaction. This volume will be a point of reference for future research on multimodality in human communication and action.
"Some of the best work now being done on the study of the intimate organization of human interaction is assembled in this book. It shows how, in interaction, multiple semiotic systems are always in play, and makes clear how no system studied in isolation, such as verbal expression or gesture, can be fully understood without grasping how it is orchestrated with others. The editors provide an extremely valuable introduction that sets the work presented in the volume in historical context and explains very clearly how the individual contributions fit together. The book will afford a major advance toward the inclusive theoretical framework that must eventually be developed if we are to have an appropriate grasp of how humans jointly achieve the coherent interactions through which they understand each other and the worlds in which they live. It will have very important implications for how language and human sociability are to be conceived of and understood."
"The papers gathered here make a powerful case for an integrated perspective on meaning making in embodied interaction in the material world – implying an important caveat for 'language first' or logocentric approaches to interaction."
Part I. Founding Capacities:
2. Collaborative construction of multimodal utterances Edwin Hutchins
and Saeko Nomura
3. Formal structures of practical tasks: a resource for action in the
social life of very young children Gene H. Lerner, Don H. Zimmerman and
Mardi Kidwell
4. Elements of formulation N. J. Enfield
5. The changing meanings of things: found objects and inscriptions
in social interaction Jürgen Streeck
6. Choreographies of attention: multimodality in a routine family activity
Eve Tulbert and Marjorie Harness Goodwin
7. Some functions of speaker head nods Hiromi Aoki
8. The multimodal mechanics of collaborative unit construction in Japanese
conversation Shimako Iwasaki
Part II. Transformational Ecologies:
9. Creating contexts for actions: multimodal practices for managing
children's conduct in the childcare classroom Siri Mehus
10. Multilingual multimodality: communicative difficulties and their
solutions in second language use Marianne Gullberg
11. On the use of graphic resources in interaction by people with communication
disorders Ray Wilkinson, Steven Bloch and Michael Clarke
12. Terra incognita: social interaction among blind children Sharon
Avital and Jürgen Streeck
13. Contextures of action Charles Goodwin
14. 'A full inspiration tray': multimodality across real and virtual
spaces Elizabeth Keating and Chiho Sunakawa
Part III. Professional Communities:
15. The organization of concurrent courses of action in surgical demonstrations
Lorenza Mondada
16. Pursuing a response: prodding recognition and expertise within
a surgical team Alan Zemel, Timothy Koschmann and Curtis LeBaron
17. Building stories: the embodied narration of what might come to
pass Keith M. Murphy
18. Embodied arguments: verbal claims and bodily evidence Julien C.
Mirivel
19. Facilitating tool use in the photography studio through language,
gesture, and the act of comparison Scott Phillabaum
20. Gesture and institutional interaction Christian Heath and Paul
Luff
21. Musical spaces John B. Haviland.
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xi, 120 pp.
Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent
years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical
utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However,
a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books
have been published in the past three decades. This is an astonishing fact
given that there are perhaps hundreds of books published on spoken discourse
analysis. This book aims to narrow this gap by providing an introduction
to the theories and practices related to transcribing communication data.
The book is intended for students with little to no knowledge of transcription
work and/or instructors responsible for teaching introductory courses on
transcript-based research. Readers who are learning or teaching discourse/conversation
analysis or similar analytic methods of investigation will find this book
particularly helpful.
The author:
Christopher Jenks has many years of experience teaching transcription
work and analysis of communication data to postgraduate students and researchers.
In addition to running workshops and giving presentations on similar topics
at universities around the world, he has published widely in top international
journals and has numerous other forthcoming publications.
Preface. An introduction to this book ix – xii
Chapter 1. An introduction to transcripts of talk and interaction
1 – 10
Chapter 2. Theoretical issues 11 – 24
Chapter 3. Transcribing talk and interaction: The basics 25 –
44
Chapter 4. Transcribing interactional and paralinguistic features
45 – 70
Chapter 5. Transcribing nonverbal conduct 71 – 88
Chapter 6. Advanced issues 89
References 105 – 108
Appendices 109 – 118
Index 119 – 120
Francesco Serranò, Alessandra
Fasulo (2011) L'intervista come conversazione. Preparazione, conduzione
e analisi del colloquio di ricerca, Carocci, Roma.
[Theinterview as conversation. How to prepare for, conduct and analyse
researchinterviews].
pp. 196 ISBN 9788843057320 € 20,00
[This volume is an introductionto interview as a research method addressed to researchers and students in thehuman and social sciences. It presents interviews from an ethnographic andconversation analytic perspective drawing on several interview studies realisedby the authors and their collaborators in the past 10 years. Researchers areguided through the preparatory stages, the construction of the interview guide,and the sequential functioning of different ways of asking questions andfollowing them up. Different analytical strategies are also illustrated takinginto account the interactional features of the dialogue and the interviewees'own ways of highlighting passages and structuring their accounts, with aspecial focus on narrative organisation. Finally, the book discusses differentoptions for presenting interview extracts and writing research reports.]
1. Comprendere l’intervista
Il valore delle interviste nella ricerca/Basi teorico-metodologiche/L’intervista
come evento istituzionale/Etica e riflessività
2. La preparazione dell’intervista
Forme di intervista/Osservazioni e documentazione
preliminare/Argomenti e dimensioni/Identificare i partecipanti/Primo contatto/Consenso
e privacy/Il luogo dell’intervista/Il registratore/La trascrizione
3. La conduzione dell’intervista
Le domande/Rilanci e approfondimenti/Il ritmo dell’interazione/Interventi
sconsigliati/La chiusura dell’intervista
4. Analizzare le interviste
Interpretare gli elementi di cornice/La dimensione
valutativa/Dispositivi poetici: liste ed enunciati paralleli/Analizzare
le narrazioni
5. La scrittura della ricerca basata su interviste
Si può scrivere in prima persona?/Come cominciare?/Che
cosa scrivere rispetto ai "metodi"?/Analisi
Appendice. Convenzioni di trascrizione
Bibliografia
Indice analitico
Alessandra Fasulo. È Senior Lecturer all’Università di Portsmouth (UK). Si occupa di Analisi della Conversazione e di psicologia della narrazione.
Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada, Jakob Steensig,
eds. (2011) The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics (No. 29)
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521194549 £65.00
356 pages
Each time we take a turn in conversation we indicate what we know and what we think others know. However, knowledge is neither static nor absolute. It is shaped by those we interact with and governed by social norms - we monitor one another for whether we are fulfilling our rights and responsibilities with respect to knowledge, and for who has relatively more rights to assert knowledge over some state of affairs. This book brings together an international team of leading linguists, sociologists and anthropologists working across a range of European and Asian languages to document some of the ways in which speakers manage the moral domain of knowledge in conversation. The volume demonstrates that if we are to understand how speakers manage issues of agreement, affiliation and alignment - something clearly at the heart of human sociality - we must understand the social norms surrounding epistemic access, primacy and responsibilities.
Part I. Affiliational Consequences of Managing Epistemic Asymmetries:
2. The management of knowledge discrepancies and of epistemic changes
in institutional interactions Lorenza Mondada
3. Giving support to the claim of epistemic primacy: yo-marked assessments
in Japanese Kaoru Hayano
4. Morality and question design: 'of course' as contesting a presupposition
of askability Tanya Stivers
5. Addressing epistemic incongruence in question-answer sequences through
the use of epistemic adverbs Trine Heinemann, Anna Lindström and Jakob
Steensig
6. The epistemics of make-believe Jack Sidnell
Part II. Epistemic Resources for Managing Affiliation and Alignment:
7. Territories of knowledge, territories of experience: empathic moments
in interaction John Heritage
8. The terms of not knowing and social affiliation Leelo Keevallik
9. Proposing shared knowledge as a means of pursuing agreement Birte
Asmuß
10. Ways of agreeing with negative stance taking Auli Hakulinen and
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
11. Epistemics and embodiment in the interactions of very young children
Mardi Kidwell
Part III. Toward a Theory:
12. Sources of asymmetry in human interaction: enchrony, status, knowledge
and agency N. J. Enfield.
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In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological concern to make the study of interactional work an empirical, investigatory matter. This edited volume is an overview of Xerox's social science tradition. It uses detailed case studies showing how the client engagement was conducted over time and how the findings were consequential for business impact. Case studies in retail, production, office and home settings cover four topics: practices around documents, the customer front, learning and knowledge-sharing, and competency transfer. The impetus for this book was a 2003 Xerox initiative to transfer knowledge about conducting ethnographically grounded work practice studies to its consultants so that they may generate the kinds of knowledge generated by the researchers themselves.
Part I. Work Practice Study in Historical Context:
1. Work practice and technology: a retrospective Lucy Suchman
2. Engineering investigations: what is made visible in making work
visible? Wes Sharrock and Graham Button
Part II. Applying Work Practice Methods:
3. Uncovering the unremarkable Peter Tolmie
4. Work practices to understand the implications of nascent technology
Francoise Brun-Cottan and Patricia Wall
5. Tokyo to go: using field studies to inform the design of a mobile
leisure guide for Japanese youth Diane J. Schiano and Victoria Bellotti
Part III. Practices around Documents:
6. Exploring documents and the future of work Jennifer Watts Englert,
Mary Ann Sprague, Patricia Wall, Catherine McCorkindale, Lisa Purvis and
Gabriele McLaughlin
7. New ways of working: the implications of work practice transitions
Mary Ann Sprague, Nathaniel Martin and Johannes A. Koomen
8. Behind the scenes: the business side of medical records Nathaniel
Martin and Patricia Wall
9. Seeing the right colour: technical and practical solutions to the
problem of accurate colour reproduction in the digital print industry Tommaso
Colombino, David Martin, Jacki O'Neill, Mary Ann Sprague, Jennifer Watts-Perotti,
Jutta Willamowski, Frederic Roulland and Antonietta Grasso
Part IV. The Customer Front:
10. Integrated customer service: re-inventing a workscape Jack Whalen
and Marilyn Whalen
11. Interactions at a reprographics store Erik Vinkhuyzen
12. Ethnography-inspired technology for remote help-giving Jacki O'Neill,
Peter Tolmie, Stefania Castellani, Antonietta Grasso and Frederic Roulland
13. Sign of the times at the department store: replacing paper with
electronic signs Johannes A. Koomen
Part V. Learning and Knowledge Sharing:
14. Communal knowledge sharing: the EUREKA story Jack Whalen and Daniel
G. Bobrow
15. Designing document solutions for airline maintenance advisories
Patricia Wall and Johannes A. Koomen
16. Transforming information system design: enabling users to design
Yutaka Yamauchi
17. Rethinking how projects are managed: meeting communication across
the organizational hierarchy Erik Vinkhuyzen and Nozomi Ikeya
Part VI. Competency Transfer:
18. Fujitsu learned ethnography from PARC: establishing the social
science center Koji Kishimoto with a preface by Jack Whalen
19. The work practice center of excellence Luke Plurkowski, Margaret
H. Szymanski, Patricia Wall and Johannes A. Koomen
20. Transferring ethnographic competence: personal reflections on the
past and future of work practice analysis Brigitte Jordan.
278 pages, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7546-4771-3
Price : £60.00 » Website price: £54.00
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Bringing together one of the most important bodies of research into people's working practices, this volume outlines the specific character of the ethnomethodological approach to work, providing an introduction to the key conceptual resources ethnomethodology has drawn upon in its studies, and a set of substantive chapters that examine how people work from a foundational perspective.
With contributions from leading experts in the field, including Graham Button, John Hughes and Wes Sharrock, Ethnomethodology at Work explores the contribution that ethnomethodological studies continue to make to our understanding of the ways in which people actually accomplish work from day to day. As such, it will appeal not only to those working in the areas of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to those with interests in the sociology of work and organisations
'When students and other researchers ask me how to go about doing an ethnomethodological study of work, there is no simple answer to give. With this collection, what I can now do is help them see why there is no simple answer while, nevertheless, getting them started on pursuing their first studies in ethnomethodology.'
'Ethnomethodology, unlike most of sociology, looks at social conduct and such things as how people use talk to organise workplaces and how the examination of code in software engineering entails particular types of reading. Because of its remarkable concern for the empirical, ethnomethodology has been widely used outside sociology, in computer science and related disciplines especially, which need such evidence to make better designs. Who the human is and what they do matters to these disciplines.'
'Pugnacious yet inviting, this book will be an invaluable guide for those interested in the ethnomethodological perspective on work, but also why it has proven to be so influential in the study and design of technology. The book expertly balances empirical study with theoretical sophistication.'
'This is an accessible, engaging and rather provocative introduction to ethnomethodological studies of work. Key topics in organisational sociology are artfully re-examined as practical concerns and achievements of engineers, bankers, and more. Mark Rouncefield and Peter Tolmie deserve thanks for crafting a collection that delivers such a distinctive contribution to the sociology of work.'
'Some sociologists may sigh "grow up" to the "grumpy old men" who put their unruly ethnomethodological orientation to work here. But their impatience with "conceptual", "visionary", "fictional" interpretive sociology is incisively productive for sociology today (as well as practical endeavours of policy-making and socio-technical design), detailing the power of practical sociological reasoning amongst ordinary members and makers of society. A passionate and useful book for both teaching and research.'
Lena Jayyusi’s classic book om Membership Categorization, Categorization and the moral order, orginally published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1984, has been translated in French as Catégorisation et ordre moral by Michel Barthélémy, published by Economica in Paris in its Collection Études Sociologiques (2010; 29 €). The text is preceded by a 10-page 'Préface à l’édition française', and a 26-page Présentation', by Peter Eglin and Stephen Hester. The main text, including the original 6 annexes, is 260 pages long.
ISBN 978-2-7178-5978-2, prics: EUR 29
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Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential directions for future research. It will therefore be of major interest to everyone studying spoken interaction. The collection brings together an impressive range of internationally renowned scholars from different, yet closely related and compatible research traditions which have made a significant contribution to the field. They cover issues such as the units of language, the contextualization of actions and activities, conversational modalities and genres, the display of affect and emotion, the multimodality of interaction, language acquisition and aphasia. All contributions are based on empirical, audio- and/or video-recorded data of natural talk-in-interaction, including languages such as English, German and Japanese. The methodologies employed come from Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.
“This wonderful collection of papers contributes to the already longstanding tradition of studies on prosody in interactional linguistics. It pays a significant tribute to the outstanding work done by Elisabeth Couper-Kuhlen who has radically contributed to our understanding of the role of prosody in interaction.
The volume not only shows the central role of prosody for the organization of interaction, but also demonstrates the interplay of prosody and other multimodal dimensions, going from syntax to gesture and embodied conducts. In this sense, the volume invites to integrate in a holistic way all of the resources participants mobilize in constructing the emergent order of social interaction.”
“It is most fascinating how much has been found out about the previously elusive medium of prosody since a small group of scholars have begun to investigate it within the environment in which it has evolved and keeps evolving, social interaction. This book provides us with a thorough understanding of the systematic ways in which we use the musical parameters of speech — melody, voice, rhythm — to manage interactions and social relationships, beat by beat, turn by turn. We learn to appreciate the immense range of social and symbolic tasks accomplished by prosodic choices and formats, as well as the wealth of research that is still to be done.”
“With contributions from some of our most prominent scholars, Prosody in Interaction honors one of the primary originators of this CA-inspired line of work by offering revealing accounts of the place of prosody in action. There can be no question that prosody plays an indispensable role in producing action in talk-in-interaction, and the contributions to this volume furnish solid empirical evidence of just what roles it plays across languages and circumstances. Accompanying commentaries to most of the contributions give added depth to the volume.”
Susan A. Speer, Elizabeth Stokoe, eds. (2011) Conversation and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521696036, £22.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521873826, £60.00
Conversation analysts have begun to challenge long-cherished assumptions about the relationship between gender and language, asking new questions about the interactional study of gender and providing fresh insights into the ways it may be studied empirically. Drawing on a lively set of audio- and video-recorded materials of real-life interactions, including domestic telephone calls, children's play, mediation sessions, police-suspect interviews, psychiatric assessments and calls to telephone helplines, this volume is the first to showcase the latest thinking and cutting-edge research of an international group of scholars working on topics at the intersection of gender and conversation analysis. Theoretically, it pushes forward the boundaries of our understanding of the relationship between conversation and gender, charting new and exciting territory. Methodologically, it offers readers a clear, practical understanding of how to analyse gender using conversation analysis, by presenting detailed demonstrations of this method in use.
Part I. Gender, Person Reference and Self-Categorization:
2. The gendered 'I', Clare Jackson, 31-47
3. Categories in talk-in-interaction: gendering speaker and recipient,
Victoria Land and Celia Kitzinger, 48-63
4. Doing gender categorization: non-recognitional person reference
and the omnirelevance of gender, Noa Logan Klein, 64-82
Part II. Gender, Repair and Recipient Design:
5. 'Girl - woman - sorry!': on the repair and non-repair of consecutive
gender categories, Elizabeth Stokoe, 85-111
6. Gender, routinization and recipient design, Sue Wilkinson, 112-134
7. Recipients designed: tag questions and gender, Alexa Hepburn and
Jonathan Potter, 135-152
Part III. Gender and Action Formation:
8. On the role of reported, third party compliments in passing as a
'real' woman, Susan A. Speer, 155-182
9. 'D'you understand that honey?': gender and participation in conversation,
Jack Sidnell, 183-209
10. Bids and responses to intimacy as 'gendered' enactments, Wayne
A. Beach and Phillip Glenn, 210-228
Part IV. Gender Identities and Membership Categorization Practices:
11. Accomplishing a cross-gender identity: a case of passing in children's
talk-in-interaction, Carly W. Butler and Ann Weatherall, 231-249
12. Engendering children's play: person reference in children's conflictual
interaction, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, 250-271
13. Being there for the children: the collaborative construction of
gender inequality in divorce mediation, Angela Cora Garcia and Lisa M.
Fisher, 272-293
14. Gender as a practical concern in children's management of play
participation, Jakob Cromdal, 294-309
Reviews
'Conversation and Gender is the perfect riposte to those who assume that Conversation Analysis cannot account for 'structural' realities. Written by a top flight collection of scholars, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in gender in interaction.'
'Conversation and Gender shows us just how much more there is to know - and how interesting and compelling that 'more' is - about the myriad, fertile connections between two of social life's most fundamental social institutions. The book's rich diversity of topics and perspectives, incisive analyses, and clarity of expression make it a 'must have' for scholars and students across the broader fields it so expertly brings together.'
Markku Haakana, Minna Laakso, Jan Lindström, eds. (2009) Talk in Interaction: Comparative Dimensions. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society (SKS).
$54.87; € 32,00, Paperback. 317 p. ISBN 978-952-222-134-6
During the recent decades Conversation Analysis has developed into a distinctive method for analyzing talk in interaction. The method is utilized in several disciplines sharing an interest in social interaction, like anthropology, linguistics, social psychology, and sociology, and it has been applied to a great variety of languages and types of interaction. Conversation Analysis then is coming of age as a truly comparative enterprise.
This volume presents and discusses comparative approaches to analyzing interactional practices and structures. The contributors to the volume have their background in sociology, linguistics, and logopedics. They offer comparative analyses of activity types, participant roles and identities, displays of emotion, and design of actions such as questions and corrections. The languages covered by the chapters include English, Finnish, German, and Swedish.
Talk in interaction – Comparative dimensions is a collection of current conversation analytical work on interactional practices. How do speakers correct the errors made by other speakers? How is disappointment expressed in interaction? How are disputes constructed in different kinds of interaction? Do girls and boys construct play interaction in the same way? These are among the topics addressed in the volume.
The central theme of the volume is comparative analysis of interactional
practices. The authors analyse the specific phenomena through different
kinds of comparative perspectives. Some of the studies analyse the different
ways of construction a certain conversational action, some compare the
realization of certain activities in different kinds of interactions (e.g.
everyday vs. institutional interaction), and some explore the culture-
and language-specific aspects of interaction. In addition, the articles
address the issues of gender and the change in interactional practices
over the time. Furthermore, the volume explores the possibilities and challenges
of comparative analysis within conversation analysis in general.
The volume is of interest to all those interested in the research of language and social interaction. Because of its methodological nature, the book can also be utilized in teaching and in learning the discovery procedures typical of Conversation Analysis. The volume can be purchased through Amazon.co or the publisher’s internet store: http://kirjat.finlit.fi/index.php?showitem=2239
Jean Widmer (2010) Discours et Cognition
sociale: Une approche sociologique. Editions
des archives contemporaines.
ISBN : 9782813000071
Prix public : 29,00 €
J. Widmer a été un des rares sociologues à situer le langage au cœur même de la vie sociale. Il y voyait en particulier la source de l’organisation du savoir de sens commun. Combinant les outils de l’ethnométhodologie et ceux de l’analyse énonciative, il a proposé une approche originale, qui envisage l’analyse de discours comme un aspect d’une « sociologie praxéologique ». Une telle approche respécifie des notions sociologiques classiques, telles celle de « structure sociale » ou celle de « pouvoir symbolique ». Appliquée aux médias, elle rend compte des formes d’espace public à l’institution desquelles ils contribuent.
Dans son élucidation de l’articulation du langage et de l’action sociale, J. Widmer a été conduit à accorder une grande attention au caractère historique des faits sociaux, et donc à la problématique anthropologique de la production, ou de l’institution imaginaire, de la société. C’est en référence à ces questions qu’il a analysé le rôle du « facteur langue » dans l’expérience publique, et qu’il a montré comment les discours sociaux participent à la constitution des collectifs politiques.
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9827-1, Paperback 160 pages £19.99 / €23.00
Note: Earlier published as a special
issue of Sociology of Health & Illness, 31/6: 787 - 940, September
2009
This book presents an international snapshot of communication in healthcare settings and examines how policies, procedures and technological developments influence day to day practice.
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4051-8550-9 £55.00 / €63.30
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4051-8549-3 £22.99 / €26.50
Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4051-5901-2 £19.99 / €23.00
Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-4051-5900-5 £50.00 / €57.50
Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field.
Introduces the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of conversation
analysis (CA) – a growing interdisciplinary field exploring language and
social interaction
Provides an engaging historical overview of the field, along with detailed
coverage of the key findings in each area of CA and a guide to current
research
Examines the way talk is composed, and how conversation structures
highlight aspects of human behavior
Focuses on the most important domains of organization in conversation,
including turn-taking, action sequencing, repair, stories, openings and
closings, and the effect of context
Includes real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, making it
an ideal guide for students navigating this growing field
1. Talk and Social Life.
2. Methods in Conversation Analysis.
3. Taking Turns.
4. Action and Understanding.
5. Preference.
6. Sequence.
7. Repair.
8. Turn construction and design.
9. Stories.
10. Openings and Closings.
11. Topic.
12. Context.
13. Conclusion.
References.
Jean Wong, Hansun Zhang Waring (2010). Conversation
analysis and second language pedagogy: A guide for ESL/EFL teachers.
New York. Routledge.
Price: £25.99 £23.39; ISBN: 978-0-415-80637-4 [ ESL &
Applied Linguistics Professional Series]
Conversation and speaking skills are the key building blocks for much of language learning. This text increases teachers’ awareness about spoken language and suggests ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second-language interaction skills based on insights from Conversation Analysis (CA).
Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy:
http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20192
This book provides a microanalysis of the interactions between four
children and their parents starting when the children were aged 9 to 13
months and ending when they were 18 months old. It tracks development as
an issue for and of interaction. In so doing, it uncovers the details of
the organisation of the sequence structure of the interactions, and exposes
the workings of language and social development as they unfold in everyday
activities. The study begins with a description of pre-verbal children’s
sequences of action and then tracks those sequences as linguistic ability
increases. The analysis reveals a developing richness and complexity of
the sequence structure and exposes a gap in Child Language studies that
focus on the children’s and their carers' actions in isolation from their
sequential environment. By focusing on the initiating actions of both child
and parent, and the response to those actions, and by capturing the details
of how both verbal and nonverbal actions are organised in the larger sequences
of talk, a more complete picture emerges of how adept the young child is
at co-creating meaning in highly organised ways well before words start
to surface. The study also uncovers pursuit of a response, and orientation
to insufficiency and adequacy of response, as defining characteristics
of these early interactions.
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Video provides unprecedented opportunities for social science research, enabling fine-grained analysis of social organisation, culture and communication. Video in Qualitative Research provides practical guidance for students and academics on how to use video in qualitative research, how to address the problems and issues that arise in undertaking video-based field studies and how to subject video recordings to detailed scrutiny and analysis.
Heath, Hindmarsh and Luff consider the ethical and practical issues that arise in recording and gathering data as well as how video enables new and distinctive ways of presenting insights, observations and findings to both academic and practitioner audiences. The book is illustrated throughout with a wide range of case material drawn from the authors own research projects, and these cases serve to situate the practical and methodological guidance offered by the book into real research scenarios.
Video in Qualitative Research is an invaluable guide for students and researchers across the social sciences thinking of using video as part of their research.
Nick Llewellyn, Jon Hindmarsh, eds. (2010 ) Organisation, Interaction and Practice: Studies of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Ethnomethodology has an elusive relationship with organisation studies. The ethnomethodological work of Harold Garfinkel, and the allied conversation analytic work of Harvey Sacks, is often cited and yet empirical contributions informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis remain rare. Organisation studies clearly has a lot to say about work but this is normally related to some broader set of social, economic and political issues. Rarely, if ever, does this research involve an analysis of the mundane and practical details of what actual work consists of. This book acts as an evidence-based corrective by showing how research based on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis can contribute to key issues and debates in organisation studies. Drawing on audio/video recordings from a diverse range of work settings, a team of leading scholars present a series of empirical studies that illustrate the importance of paying attention to the real-time achievement of organisational processes and practices.
• First study to explore the value of ethnomethodology/conversation
analysis for organisation studies
• Establishes a methodology for the analysis of video and audio recordings
• Empirical studies drawn from a range of organisational settings from
the leading scholars in the field
‘This volume demonstrates the thousands of 'small ways' and 'artful practices' through which people recognise and reproduce the organisational location of their actions. It offers a rich panorama of ethnomethodologically informed studies of ordinary work and in so doing it brings something distinctive to the table of organisation studies.’
‘This book is essential reading for researchers and students of organisations, management and business. It reveals the amazing insights generated by researchers applying ethnomethodology, CA, DA and workplace studies to audio and video data from real-time organisational settings. Nick Llewellyn and Jon Hindmarsh deserve congratulations for assembling the very best set of authors to deal with this field. This trailblazing, lucid book will set the standard for years to come.’
‘I cannot overstress how much a gap this book fills, nor how well crafted its papers are. Nick Llewellyn and Jon Hindmarsh are to be congratulated for putting together such a delightful, focused and sophisticated collection of papers. We badly need work on the micro-foundations of organisational behaviour, and this splendid book, with its strong ethnomethodological focus, shows how we could study organisations as interactive accomplishments. Supporters of process- and practice-based perspectives, take notice!’
Part II Studies
3 A kind of governance: rules, time and psychology in organisations,
Jonathan Potter and Alexa Hepburn, 49-73
4 On the reflexivity between setting and practice: the ‘recruitment
interview’, Nick Llewellyn, 74-95
5 The situated production of stories, David Greatbatch and Timothy
Clark, 96-118
6 Orders of bidding: organising participation in auctions of fine art
and antiques’, Christian Heath and Paul Luff, 119-39
7 Some major organisational consequences of some ‘minor’, organised
conduct: evidence from a video analysis of pre-verbal service encounters
in a showroom retail store’ Colin Clark and Trevor Pinch, 140-71
8 The work of the work order: document practice in face-to-face service
encounters
Robert J. Moore, Jack Whalen and E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, 172-97
9 The interactional accomplishment of a strategic plan, Dalvir Samra-Fredericks,
198-217
10 Peripherality, participation and communities of practice: examining
the patient in dental training, Jon Hindmarsh, 218-40
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The final section of the book comprises a set of chapters looking at interaction with children who are regarded as being ‘atypical’ in that they face challenges to the enactment of what are considered typical communicative processes. The children are variously those with cerebral palsy, autistic spectrum disorder, the deaf and those with specific speech and language difficulties. It cannot be presumed that a developmental ‘lag’ in communication is present and the authors explore issues of different and adaptive practices, rather than those concerning delay. There is here evidence that interactional participants may not orient to disability or difference at all, at least in the terms set out in wider society. The same issues such as that of intersubjectivity and membership in their societal context are seen to be oriented to. Certainly a deficit model is routinely eschewed in favour of revealing interactional competencies hitherto overlooked. The first chapter in this section (Clarke and Wilkinson), is a good example of the contention of difference rather than disability, where the children are using electronic communication aids due to cerebral palsy. Radford and Mahon examine gaze and gesture in classroom interactions between teachers and children with language learning needs (deaf children and children with specific language difficulties). Their detailed analysis raises questions about the exact nature of a ‘turn’ in adult-child interactions (particularly in this context) and introduces the notion of a ‘shared’ turn. The deliberate exploitation of multimodal resources by professionals in didactic contexts is revisited in the two remaining chapters by Tykylainnen, looking at speech and language therapy and Stribling et al. looking at complex teaching interactions. Stribling et al look at social practices inherent in establishing intersubjectivity and scaffolding of (learning) with a child who severe disabilities in a classroom context. The chapter highlights the organisational subtlety and crucial timing of recipient sensitive management in learning support.
To a great extent the children can be viewed simply as people interacting, in search of the same or similar outcomes to adults It is hoped this volume will further appreciation of fine detailed analysis as a mechanism for understanding the nature of human communication and its development.
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‘Conversation analysis’ is an approach to the study of social interaction
that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts
and settings. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis
of English conversation. More recently, however, conversation analysts
have begun to study talk in a broader range of communities around the world.
Through detailed analyses of recorded conversations, this book examines
differences and similarities across a wide range of languages including
Finnish, Japanese, Tzeltal Mayan, Russian, and Mandarin. Bringing together
interrelated methodological and analytic contributions, it explores topics
such as the role of gaze in question-and-answer sequences, the organization
of repair, and the design of responses to assessments. The emerging comparative
perspective demonstrates how the structure of talk is inflected by the
local circumstances within which it operates.
• Features contributions from world renowned scholars in the field
• Explores differences and similarities across a wide range of languages
including Finnish, Japanese, Tzeltal Mayan, Russian and Mandarin
• Based on detailed analysis of recorded conversations
‘Hooray! This is what we’ve been waiting for – a genuinely cross-linguistic perspective on the ways in which semiotic resources, including language and the body, are mobilized for the resolution of recurrent tasks in interaction.’
‘Not only does this remarkable book represent a major collection of cross-linguistic work in Conversation Analysis, but the contributions, all by world-renowned scholars, covering ten languages, together form a stunning and important picture of the ways in which the resources of any particular language afford possibilities for social action accomplished through talk.’
Part II Repair and beyond
2 Repetition in the initiation of repair, Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu 31
3 A cross-linguistic investigation of the site of initiation in same-turn
self-repair, Barbara Fox, Fay Wouk, Makoto Hayashi, Steven Fincke, Liang
Tao, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Minna Laakso, and Wilfrido Flores Hernandez
60
4 Repairing reference, Maria Egbert, Andrea Golato, and Jeffrey D.
Robinson 104
Part III Aspects of response
5 Projecting nonalignment in conversation, Anna Lindström 135
6 Two answers to inapposite inquiries, Trine Heinemann 159
7 Gaze, questioning, and culture, Federico Rossano, Penelope Brown,
and Stephen C. Levinson 187
8 Negotiating boundaries in talk, Makoto Hayashi and Kyung-eun Yoon,
250
Part IV Action formation and sequencing
9 Alternative responses to assessments, Marja-Leena Sorjonen and Auli
Hakulinen, 281
10 Language-specific resources in repair and assessments, Jack Sidnell
304
11 Implementing delayed actions, Galina B. Bolden 326
Part V Conclusion
12 One perspective on Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives, Emanuel A. Schegloff 357
Bibliography 407
Index 436
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Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importance placed on media channelled 'public opinion' as part of a democratic process.
The authors use a variety of discourse analytic methods including CA/MCA, Discourse Analysis and Interactionism, to provide discussions around the social organization of policy debate in media sites including news interviews, public access broadcasts, broadcast debates, panel discussions, mediated government initiatives, newspapers and news broadcasts. The book's geographical coverage spans the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.
This volume offers a major contribution to discourse analysis and its emphasis on policy substance will appeal to a broad audience in social and public policy, political communication, journalism and politics.
'Investigation of the role of media in public life through analysis of talk is now well established. Media, Policy and Interaction is a valuable volume that elucidates some aspects of that role in a range of societies using methods inspired by ethnomethodology. It brings together eleven original contributions. Especially enjoyable were those from lively younger researchers.'
'This book, comprised of contributions from a multi-disciplinary team of authors around a common theme of public policy and the news providers through which it is mediated, is a useful addition to the literature and contains much that will recommend it to students of journalism theory, among other fields.'
'This is an important contribution to the growing field of research on language practices in mediated politics. Rich in examples and powerful and detailed analyses, the book provides new insights into how politics is communicated in various media contexts. Focusing on framing, social categorisations, talk and interaction the authors explore the relations between practices on micro level and wider political discourses.'
Rod Watson (2009) Anaysing Practical and Professional Texts: A Naturalistic Approach. Farnham, Surey, U.K.: Ashgate
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Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. It reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature, but also textually-constituted, showing how texts – professional, technical or otherwise – as well as various social-scientific methodologies employ the resources of ordinary language.
Theoretically sophisticated and illustrated with empirical examples, this book will be of interest not only to those with interests in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to social scientists and anthropologists concerned with text analysis, textual sense and the 'linguistic turn' in the methods of their own disciplines.
Rod Watson is Research Associate at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Linguistique et Sociolinguistique at the Institut Marcel Mauss, Paris, France
Reviews: 'Rod Watson uses the tools of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to show us aspects of texts, both the mundane texts of ordinary life and the sociological texts of authors like Erving Goffman, that we had not suspected were there. It’s a brilliant analysis of the language games and rhetorical tropes that suffuse sociology’s theoretical discourse. Anyone who wants to understand sociologists’ work will profit from Watson’s penetrating insights.'
'Rod Watson cogently and masterfully draws the reader in as a co-participant in his textural analysis. Of particular importance is his discussion of the value and power of the documentary method as an analytical tool. Watson meticulously builds his case throughout the volume, culminating in his incisive and insightful textual examination of the work of Erving Goffman.'
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Book Description
The book is addressed to all those involved in foreign language learning and teaching. It takes the sequential organisation of code-switching at the tertiary level EFL classrooms as its subject matter. The book reviews recent findings and current theoretical positions, presents new data and interpretations, and sketches the organisation of EFL classroom talk. The value of Üstünel's book is that she synthesizes research from SLA, applied linguistics, and conversation analysis and helps us to see connections among language pedagogy, EFL classroom talk, and the structures of social action.
About the Author
Eda Üstünel has a BA on English Language Teacher Education from Dokuz Eylül University,Turkey (2000); an MA on Language Studies from Lancaster University,UK (2001); and a PhD on Educational Studies from Newcastle University,UK (2004). She has taught at Cyprus International University, Northern Cyprus, for one academic year (September 2008-June 2009). She is currently teaching at the Department of English Language Teacher Training,Mugla University, Turkey.
Chapter II Literature Review
2.1 Chapter Overview
2.2 Conversation Analysis
2.3 Code-Switching
2.4 Theoretical Background of Socio-cultural Theory
2.5 Literature on the First Language Use in Second Language Classrooms
2.6 Summary of the Chapter
Chapter III Methodology
3.1 Purpose of the Study and the Research Question
3.2 Research Issues
3.3 Research Methodology
3.4 Data Collection Methods
3.5 Data Analysis
3.6 Validity
3.7 Reliability
3.8 Reflexivity
3.9 Limitations of the Study
Chapter IV Data Analysis
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Dealing with Procedural Trouble
4.3 Dealing with Classroom Discipline
4.4 Expressing the Social Identity
4.5 Giving Turkish Equivalent
4.6 Translating into Turkish
4.7 Deal with a Lack of Response in English
4.8 Providing a Prompt for English Use
4.9 Eliciting Turkish or English Translation
4.10 Giving Feedback
4.11 Checking Comprehension in English
4.12 Providing Metalanguage Information
4.13 Giving Encouragement to Participate
4.14 Summary of the Chapter
Chapter V: Conclusion
5.1 Purpose of the Study
5.2 Answer to the Research Question
5.3 Findings of the Study
5.4 Positioning the Findings in the Literature
5.5 Implications of Code-Switching in English-as-a-Foreign-Language
Classrooms for Practice and Research
References
Appendices
Appendix I: Transcription Conventions
Appendix II: Classroom Transcriptions
Appendix III: British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Ethics
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Neben einer konsequent konversationsanalytischen Herangehens -weise fokussiert die Arbeit aber auch auf die besondere Klientel vermeintlich schwächerer Schülerinnen und Schüler, wie sie insbeson -dere in Hauptschulen zu finden sind. Dabei werden weniger deren Defizite als ihre Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen herausgearbeitet, die sich vor allem in dem manifestieren, was der Autor als Schülerinitiative bezeichnet und in den analytischen Mittelpunkt stellt.
I. Zum theoretischen Hintergrund
1. Fremdsprachenunterricht an Hauptschulen
1.1. ,Englisch für alle' und die Entwicklung einer hauptschulspezifischen
Fremdsprachendidaktik
1.2. Eine hauptschulgemäße Fremdsprachendidaktik
1.3. Die Ausdifferenzierung des Methodenkanons
1.4. Ausgewählte Forschungsarbeiten
1.5. Mündlichkeit als Basis des Fremdsprachenunterrichts mit lernschwachen
Schülern
2. Interaktion und Partizipation im Fremdsprachenunterricht
2.1. Interaktion
2.2. Partizipation
2.3. Zur Bedeutung der Interaktion für den schulischen Spracherwerb
2.4. Interaktion und Partizipation - eine soziokulturelle Perspektive
3. Konversationsanalyse und Unterrichtsforschung
3.1. Die Konversationsanalyse - eine Begriffsbestimmung
3.2. Zur Genese einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin
3.3. Grundsätzliche Prinzipien der Konversationsanalyse
3.4. Gesprächsforschung und Zweitspracherwerb
II. Konzeption der Untersuchung
4. Aufbau und Durchführung
4.1. Fragestellung und Zielsetzung
4.2. Auswahl und Beschreibung der Forschungssubjekte
4.3. Durchführung der Untersuchung
5. Beteiligungsstrukturen im lehrerzentrierten Unterrichtsdiskurs
5.1. Die Verteilung des Rederechts
5.2. Gesprächsinitiative als wichtiges Merkmal schulischer Diskurse
III. Schülerbeteiligung im Fremdsprachenunterricht
6. Gesprächsinitiativen durch die Lehrperson
6.1. Der pädagogische Austausch als Hauptmerkmal der Lehrer-Schüler-Interaktion
6.2. Nachbarschaftspaare in lehrerinitiierten Sequenzen
6.3. Die Rahmung (framing) - Sequenzielle Markierungen durch die Lehrkraft
6.4. Zusammenfassung: Die Lehrerinitiative
7. Gesprächsinitiativen von Schülerseite
7.1. Thematische Einordnung
7.2. Die Schülerinitiative in der Literatur
7.3. Zur Kategorisierung von Schülerinitiativen in lehrerzentrierten
Diskursen
7.4. Sequenzielle Positionierung
7.5. Semantische Positionierung
7.6. Relationale Positionierung
7.7. Räumlich-interaktionale Positionierung
7.8. Die Schülerinitiative - eine Gesamtschau
8. Ausgewählte Sequenztypen innerhalb der lehrerzentrierten Unterrichtskommunikation
8.1. Schülerinitiative in eingebetteten Sequenzen
8.2. Negotiation of meaning
8.3. Zusammenfassung: Sequenzmuster im lehrerzentrierten Unterrichtsdiskurs
9. Reparatursequenzen im Fremdsprachenunterricht
9.1. Begriffsklärung
9.2. Fehler, Feedback und Fehlerkorrektur im Kontext fremdsprachendidaktischer
Überlegungen und Erkenntnisse
9.3. Reparatur aus Sicht der Gesprächsforschung
9.4. Zu Feedback, Fehlern und Reparaturen im Korpus der Untersuchung
9.5. Zusammenfassung: Reparatursequenzen im Fremdsprachenunterricht
IV. Zusammenschau
10. Untersuchungsergebnisse und Ausblick
10.1. Zielsetzung der Untersuchung
10.2. Diskussion der Ergebnisse
10.3. Offene Fragen und weitere Forschungsdesiderate
10.4. Zur Zukunft des Fremdsprachenunterrichts mit (lern)schwachen
Schülern
Literaturverzeichnis / Anhang
Sigurd D’hondt, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren, eds.(2009) The Pragmatics of Interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 4]
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The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, or discursive angles, this fourth volume is dedicated to the empirical investigation of the way human beings organize their interaction in natural environments and how they use talk for accomplishing actions and their contexts. Starting from Goffman’s observation that interaction exhibits a structure in its own right that cannot be reduced to the psychological properties of the individual nor to society, it contains a selection of articles documenting the various levels of interactional organization. In addition to treatments of basic concepts such as sequence, participation, prosody and style and some topical articles on phenomena like reported speech and listener response, it also includes overviews of specific traditions (conversation analysis, ethnomethodology) and articles on eminent authors (Goffman, Sacks) who had a formative influence on the field.
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In this book, the author takes an in-depth look at the way people collaborate to provide services for two specific groups: Puerto Ricans and families. By observing and participating within the organizations, Milburn discovered how conversations and written discourse were used to establish and sustain both the vibrancy of the organizations and individual's sense of what is means to be a member of a voluntary nonprofit. The author skillfully blends ethnography of communication, membership categorization analysis, and ethnomethodology to explore typical organizational issues (such as negotiation and change) that occur in common business contexts like meetings and special events. This study reveals how unpaid participants' communication shapes a nonprofit organization's ability to fulfill its mission and serve its members.
Introduction. Communication Perspective. Ethnography of Communication. Membership Categorization Analysis. Ethnomethodology. Combined Approaches. Culture in MCA, EC and Organizational Communication. Data Collection. Organizational Settings. Nuanced Memberships.
Becoming A Participant/becoming A Member. Membership Labels, Address and Reference. Distinguishing Members. Addressing Individual Members. Introductions. Initial Membership Categories.
Membership in A Community Context. PRC's Annual Dinner Dance. Community as Metaphor. Community Actions. Family Center Gala Anniversary Event. Location of Community. Community Struggles to Serve. Community History. Discussion.
Maintaining Membership Through Meetings. Meeting Sequences and Norms. Meetings as Mundane. FC Decision Making. Valid Premises for Making Decisions. Outcomes of Decisions: Votes. Discussion. Summary.
Organizational Change. Strategic Change. Retreat. Long Term Planning. Terminating Membership/Ceasing to Participate. Terminating Membership. Situational Frame. What Change is Represented in This Account?. Summary.
Inscribing the Organization: Documents Structure Actions. The Use of Agendas. Minutes are Referenced. Family Center Minutes. Puerto Rican Center Minutes. Secretaries Take Minutes. Questioning the Secretary's Role. Inscribing Conclusions.
Conclusions: Organization, Communication and Membership. Implications for being a Member. Members Organize. Things Members Do. Members Communicate. Members Create Community. Members Create Nonprofits. Methodological Implications. Boarding " Pass " . Why Continue to Study Nonprofits? Afterword. Notes. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
Il volume raccoglie i contributi di amici, colleghi e allievi che, in segno di stima e gratitudine, festeggiano i sessant'anni di Franca Orletti, con la scrittura di saggi in campi d'indagine vicini ai suoi interessi scientifici. Si accostano dunque competenze disciplinari diverse sulle tracce del modo di lavorare che la contraddistingue, ripercorrendo, altresì, le tappe principali della sua attività di studio: l'analisi della conversazione; generi e forme del discorso e l'espressione dell'identità.
Il titolo rispecchia l'ampia cornice in cui i vari contributi possono essere collocati: lo studio di diversi livelli di analisi e approcci metodologici allo studio del linguaggio. Il testo rappresenta perciò uno strumento efficace per conoscere lo stato dell'arte in molti settori della linguistica italiana, prezioso anche dal punto di vista didattico per avvicinare studenti di diversi corsi a tematiche centrali della teoria e della ricerca linguistica.
Marilena Fatigante è dottore di ricerca in Psicologia dell'interazione, comunicazione e socializzazione presso l'università "Sapienza" di Roma. Ha partecipato a numerosi progetti di ricerca sullo studio dell'interazione nei contesti familiare, scolastico e clinico-psico-diagnostico. Tra le sue pubblicazioni più recenti: la cura del numero monografico di RiPLA (2007), Conversare, leggere, scrivere: studi in prospettiva culturale con Maria Antonietta Pinto.
Laura Mariottini è ricercatrice di Lingua e traduzione spagnola presso l'università "Sapienza" di Roma. I suoi interessi di ricerca vertono, nell'ambito della linguistica spagnola, sulla lingua dei nuovi mezzi di comunicazione di massa, sulla cortesia, la pragmatica e l'analisi del discorso anche in dimensione contrastiva spagnolo-italiano. È autrice di La cortesia (Carocci, 2007).
M. Eleonora Sciubba è dottore di ricerca in Linguistica sincronica, diacronica e applicata presso l'università "Roma Tre" con una tesisulla costruzione di un corpus d'italiano giudiziario parlato diretta da Franca Orletti. È docente di Lingua inglese presso l'università Telematica Guglielmo Marconi. Ha collaborato con importanti aziende italiane come localizzatrice e linguista computazionale. I suoi interessi di ricerca spaziano dall'Analisi conversazionale alla Terminologia, dalla CMC all'E-learning, dalla Linguistica giudiziaria alla Linguistica inglese.
Parte III - Identità e contaminazioni
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Moments such as these are extraordinary and mundane, foreign yet strikingly familiar to all who have encountered them when matters of illness, disease, life, and death move to the forefront and require our attention. Readers will not only gain enhanced understandings of ordinary human interactions, but a deep appreciation for managing the trials, tribulations, hopes and triumphs of cancer - and all human illness journeys shaped by communication in everyday life.
An in-depth view of what a cancer journey really is in the everyday, everynight, real time courses of actions and interactions that encompass patients and their significant personal and professional others… something that is as close as analytically possible to being there.
Professor Wayne Beach has done for the field of conversation and interaction analysis what Dr. George Engel, a physician and the father of the biopsychosocial model, did for medicine…With precision and sensitivity, his analysis provides intimate access to the development, maintenance and termination of meaningful relationships over time.
This is a stunning, important, and exceptional book…A skilful application of the method Conversation Analysis and one of the very rare works examining longitudinal interactional data.
Part of the beauty and power of this extraordinary book [is that] we can see ourselves in their challenges; we can hear ourselves in their ways of talking…Wayne Beach guides the reader with skill and mastery...Cancer does inhabit individual bodies, but its meaning is absolutely worked out between and among us. We cannot overlook the social and communicative aspects of health, life, death, and identity. This book provides a way into these issues.
The exquisite detail of the analysis allows the reader into the world of a family reeling from the original cancer diagnosis and evolving sickness. It is at the same time a profound contribution to modern social psychology, an important new way of conducting medical sociology, and a significant addition to our understanding of contemporary family life.
Never before has such a record of family talk about life and death been analyzed in anything approaching such detail, and with such a respectful yet sophisticated analytic apparatus. The result is unique. It is both a contribution to our technical understanding of talk as a medium of social action, and a humane testament to the power of social science to illuminate hopeful conduct as well as darker reaches of the human journey.
There are few academic books that a reader finds simultaneously insightful and humbling…The concept of hope is not one that is frequently examined in social science, but it is fundamental to our experiences as human beings. It is this focus on hope that makes this book humbling - a rare experience in the academy.
The book recommends itself through the centrality of its subject matter to all our lives, through Beach's compassionate and yet rigorous treatment of these charged and delicate interactions, and for the depth of the insights he offers into ways of doing relationships in split seconds of phone call talk… A rich, informative, and heart-felt examination…This is a book to be savored, and it is also destined to be a source for much research in the future.
A Natural History of Family Cancer is a powerful book on the human response to illness…By showing how these activities are achieved on a moment-by-moment basis and by revealing the detail of their organization, Beach preserves and respects the texture of the family members' experiences. The result is a profoundly intimate, humane example of scholarship. Given its scope, one could design an entire course around this book or use it alongside others in communication, sociology, linguistics, anthropology, and medical school courses. It would be especially valuable for graduate and undergraduate courses on health communication, family dynamics, death and dying, and life-course issues.
Professor Beach brings us into the interactional world of family members living through the emotional and practical roller coaster of a mom's cancer diagnosis, treatment and eventual death… particular ways of talking that provide for the very constitution of knowledge, optimism, hope, despair, sympathy, comfort and practical action…Studying a family's experience of cancer in this way affords perspective and insight not ordinarily available, going well beyond what the patient and her family members may think or feel, examining not only how they construct those thoughts and feelings in interaction with one another, but also how they manage the many practical contingencies of social life inherent in the progression of illness.
With surgical and delicate precision, Beach opens up everyday conversations about illness to show us ways of coping and hoping in the face of difficulty and possible death. And with elegance, Beach maintains a balance between the scientific and humanistic aspects of illness and its treatment…He is an objective analyst yet an empathetic storyteller…This book has widespread appeal and value for health care practitioners, educators, researchers, and (of course) anyone whose life is directly or indirectly affected by a serious illness such as cancer.
A patient suffering from cancer sounds a call of conscience in desperate need of heartfelt acknowledgment. Beach offers a finally tuned assessment of this call and the discourse that it provokes…It is an awesome expedition: Sad, funny, and exceptionally thought-provoking...a must-read for those interested in the ever-growing field of health communication.Michael J. Hyde, Wake Forest University, author of The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate
The lucid writing by Wayne Beach is simultaneously crisp, eloquent, and sensitive. His analysis of the interactions between family members is insightful and most revealing of the unique dynamics of family communication when one member faces a critical health threat. This important book has both scholarly and practical significance for guiding future research, understanding communication praxis, and makes a tremendous contribution to the communication literature.
This research, funded early on by the American Cancer Society, has great potential to improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their families…Health Care professionals who want to understand family dynamics, outside of the examination and treatment rooms, will also find this book fascinating and inspiring.
Without focusing directly on clinical communication, but family phone conversations, this book powerfully demonstrates that encounters between cancer patients and medical practitioners are merely individual moments, and threads, in the complex warp and weft of families using communication to manage cancer…Analysis expands our understanding of the social organization of the delivery of good and bad health news, troubles tellings, and commiseration. A Natural History of Family Cancer is an important contribution to the study of language and social interaction, as well as family and health communication.
Wayne A. Beach is Professor in the School of Communication,
San Diego State University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery and
Member, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego. Other