'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.
Author(s): Jack Sidnell
Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 461
Tags: conversation analysis;sociolinguistics
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 11
Contributors......Page 15
I. Temporal and sequential relationships......Page 17
II. Aspects of speech delivery, including aspects of intonation......Page 18
IV. Multi-linear transcription conventions......Page 19
Part I Introduction......Page 21
Introduction......Page 23
A comparative perspective in conversation analysis......Page 27
Grammar, culture, and the organization of repair......Page 30
CA and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics......Page 34
Practices, structures, distributions......Page 36
Mobilization of local resources to solve generic problems of interaction......Page 40
Overview of the volume......Page 44
Acknowledgments......Page 45
Notes......Page 46
Part II Repair and beyond......Page 49
Introduction......Page 51
The candidate phenomenon: repeat-formatted other-initiation of repair......Page 52
Question-intoned repeats and a-suffixed repeats in clear-cut contexts of repair......Page 55
The effect of the epistemic stance of the repeat speaker......Page 61
The effect of the sequential context and positioning of the initiation of repair......Page 70
Question-intoned repeats in the context of intensified nonalignment......Page 74
Conclusion......Page 77
Notes......Page 78
Introduction......Page 80
Data collection......Page 82
Methodology......Page 83
Site of initiation......Page 85
Post-beginning and pre-completion in English......Page 86
Cross-linguistic comparison......Page 87
Summary of cross-linguistic comparison......Page 90
Recognizable completion......Page 91
Site of initiation and repair type......Page 93
Repair type and site of initiation in English......Page 95
Cross-linguistic comparison......Page 96
Summary......Page 99
Word length organization and site of initiation......Page 100
Monosyllabic words and recognizable completion......Page 101
Multisyllabic words and recognizable completion......Page 103
Word length, repair type and recognizable completion......Page 105
Explaining Indonesian: Longer words and recognizable completion......Page 109
Explaining English: Syntactic class and recognizable completion......Page 112
A closer look at Bikol and Finnish: Word length and site of initiation......Page 114
Shortness vs beat of delay......Page 115
Three sources of evidence......Page 117
Summary and conclusion......Page 119
Notes......Page 122
Introduction......Page 124
Data......Page 125
Final-intonation as a constitutive feature of "Was denn"/"Was."/"What."......Page 126
"Was denn"/"Was."/"What.": A practice of other-initiated repair......Page 129
Further evidence: The case of "doubles"......Page 140
A contrasting practice with a similar form: "Fur was."/"For what."......Page 143
(The) Difference(s) between "Was." and "Was denn"......Page 145
Discussion......Page 148
Methodological issues in conducting a cross-linguistic analysis......Page 150
Notes......Page 152
Part III Aspects of response......Page 153
Projecting nonalignment......Page 155
Analysis......Page 162
Discussion......Page 177
Acknowledgments......Page 178
Introduction......Page 179
The English change-of-state token “oh” and its use in question–answer sequences......Page 180
The Danish change-of-state token "na"......Page 182
Answers to inapposite questions in German and Danish......Page 183
Generic features of inapposite questions and their answers......Page 186
Explicit targeting of the inappositeness of a question: The use of the modal adverb "da"......Page 190
"I dont know" answers......Page 194
Implying immoral behavior with "da"......Page 197
Recipient's responses to "da" turns......Page 198
Summary......Page 202
Discussion......Page 203
Notes......Page 205
Introduction......Page 207
Earlier work on gaze in interaction......Page 209
A different landscape: Some qualitative counter-evidence to prior claims......Page 213
Data and method......Page 223
Results......Page 227
Reasons for, and consequences of, cultural variability in gaze behavior in interaction......Page 246
Implications for general patterns of gaze in interaction......Page 251
Conclusions......Page 258
Appendix A: Coding......Page 261
Appendix B: Symbols for gaze orientation......Page 262
Notes......Page 264
Introduction......Page 270
Negotiating topic/activity boundaries......Page 272
Negotiating turn closure......Page 280
Summary and discussion......Page 287
Response tokens and cultural style......Page 288
Cross-cultural/cross-linguistic comparisons......Page 290
Appendix......Page 293
Notes......Page 294
Part IV Action formation and sequencing......Page 299
Introduction......Page 301
VS response implying difference in perspective......Page 303
SV response implying independence of speaker's stance......Page 308
"Niin on" response displaying unmodified agreement......Page 310
Conclusion......Page 320
Appendix: Glossing symbols used......Page 322
Notes......Page 323
Introduction......Page 324
Other-intiated repair......Page 325
Other-initiated repair in two Caribbean communities......Page 326
"If"-prefaced repeats in the initiation of repair......Page 328
"If"-prefaced second assessments......Page 334
Stand-alone if as an interjection......Page 340
Conclusion......Page 342
Notes......Page 344
Introduction......Page 346
Ways of dealing with contiguity breaks......Page 347
The Russian discourse particle -to......Page 348
Delayed clarification requests in storytelling episodes......Page 350
Resuming a prior course of action......Page 355
Old topics or delayed actions?......Page 362
Conclusion......Page 370
Appendix......Page 371
Additional intonation symbols......Page 372
Notes......Page 373
Part V Conclusion......Page 375
Preamble......Page 377
Comparative speech-exchange systems......Page 378
"Multi-modality"......Page 379
Age grading......Page 381
Comparative analysis: One CA perspective......Page 382
Introduction: Different orders of comparison......Page 393
Various research trajectories.......Page 396
Fox et al., "A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of the Site of Initiation in Same-Turn Self-Repair"......Page 398
The target of inquiry......Page 399
Comparability across data......Page 403
Problems in analysis and findings......Page 405
The upshot......Page 407
Rossano et al., "Gaze, Questioning, and Culture"......Page 413
Where does this leave us?......Page 418
Notes......Page 419
Bibliography......Page 427
Index......Page 456
