scholarly journals Withholding consent

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-695
Author(s):  
Lotte van Burgsteden ◽  
Hedwig te Molder
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Strong Basis ◽  
Public Meetings ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Human Health Effects ◽  
The Given ◽  
Answer Format

Abstract This paper examines public meetings in the Netherlands where experts and officials interact with local residents on the human health effects of livestock farming. Using Conversation Analysis, we reveal a ‘weapon of the weak’: a practice by which the residents resist experts’ head start in information meetings. It is shown how residents draw on the given question-answer format to challenge experts and pursue an admission of, for example, methodological shortcomings. We show how the residents’ first question functions as a ‘foot-in-the-door’, providing them with a strong basis for skepticism. By systematically challenging the expert responses, the residents exploit the interaction’s sequential organization, with the effect that the goal becomes them being convinced rather than being informed. Consequently, the withholding of consent becomes the residents’ ‘weapon’. Finally, we argue that in an age where expertise is increasingly contested, it is crucial to understand how, and to what end, this contestation may occur.

scholarly journals RUSSIAN AND SERBIAN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS: EXPERIENCE OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2016 ◽  
pp. 166-170
Author(s):  
V. Dzonic
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
The Given ◽  
Semantic Aspect ◽  
The Russian Language

This paper is devoted to identification of specific characteristics of Russian and Serbian phraseological units. The author considers the phraseological units from structural and semantic aspect and pays special attention to the national and cultural component of the studied units, which cause the greatest difficulties for foreigners. Identification of the given component is carried out by linguocultural analysis of components of phraseologicaly related word combinations. The material of research was comprised based on data from lexicographical dictionaries of Russian and Serbian languages. The phraseological units – toponyms are reviewed as a separate group and are, in the author’s opinion, bearers of rich linguoculturological information. The author identifies three main sources of imagery of these units: characteristics of the geographical position of the object; important historical and cultural events, as well as prominent historical figures, which brought fame to the region; lifestyle and crafts of local residents. The analysis allowed the author to identify specific national and cultural characteristics of a number of Russian and Serbian toponyms. This work is of an applied nature. Results of the study can be used in the teaching the Russian language as second Slavic language.

Local staff enhances service delivery

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-33
Author(s):  
Dell H. Schlaht
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Head Start Program ◽  
North Central ◽  
Local Staff ◽  
Direct Care Providers ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Central Montana

This article describes how the Blackfeet Head Start Program in north-central Montana utilized professional to train local residents as screeners and home trainers. The training is structured to provide specific intervention strategies and family support. The numbers of handicapped children and their families who receive services has increased as a result of using local home trainers and teachers as direct care providers.

L1-L2 speaker interaction in a study abroad setting

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail McMeekin
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Host Family ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Construct Meaning

Abstract Analyzing approximately nine hours of video-recorded naturally-occurring conversations over eight weeks of study abroad between three L2 speakers of Japanese and their L1 speaker host family members, the present study uses conversation analysis to explore how the participants manage intersubjectivity using communication strategies in word searches. Specifically the study explores the following: (a) how participants deploy, manipulate, and respond to communication strategies as interactional resources used to co-construct meaning and progressively disambiguate the referent sought; (b) how strategies are used within the sequential organization of word searches to guide the trajectory of the search on a turn-by-turn basis; (c) how linguistic and non-linguistic resources such as intonation and eye gaze are used in conjunction with strategies to organize participant structure and relevant action in the unfolding talk; and (d) how a microanalytic, interactional approach can redefine our understanding of how strategic mechanisms are used and labeled in interaction.

Storytelling in multiple contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.K. Luke
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Single Instance ◽  
The Many ◽  
Favourite Topic

Since Sacks’ pioneering work in the 1970s, storytelling has become a favourite topic of research within conversation analysis. Scholars have examined storytelling from the point of view of sequential organization (Jefferson 1978), participation organization (Goodwin 1984), story co-telling (Duranti 1986, Mandelbaum 1987, Lerner 1992), displays of epistemic statuses (Schegloff 1988), and action formation (M. Goodwin 1982, 1990; Mandelbaum 1993; Beach 2000; Beach & Glenn 2011; Wu 2011, 2012). Work has also been done on the management of storytelling in the context of other, concurrent activities (Goodwin 1984, Goodwin & Goodwin 1992, Mandelbaum 2010, Haddington et al. 2014). The aim of this paper is to apply the many insights that researchers have accumulated since Sacks to the analysis and understanding of a single instance of storytelling in a Cantonese conversation. A detailed, step-by-step unpacking of this story will reveal how the contingencies of an interaction, including the interplay of multiple contexts, may leave fine-grained imprints on the shape and character of a story.

Source marking in represented talk and thought in Vietnamese narratives

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanh thi Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Participation Frameworks ◽  
Vietnamese Speakers

AbstractThis paper uses conversation analysis to examine when Vietnamese speakers explicitly mark the source of represented talk or thought (RT) and when they may omit the RTs source in narratives in dyadic and multiparty family conversations. In Vietnamese, a pro-drop, non-inflectional language, RTs may be introduced by a verb of speaking and its subject, a verb of speaking without the subject, or no verb of speaking and no subject. The analysis focuses on how these three choices are employed in the sequential organization of narrative series, narrative participation frameworks, and narrative dramatization. The findings contribute to current understandings about source marking through linguistic devices as an interactional practice in conversations in addition to other resources such as voicing and embodied actions.

Participation of a Conversation Partner in the Word Searches of a Person With Aphasia

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary L. Oelschlaeger
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Online Analysis ◽  
Direct Gaze ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Conversation Partner ◽  
Conversational Sequences

Conversation analysis was applied to answer the question of when and how a conversation partner participates in the word searches of a person with aphasia. Thirty-eight videotaped conversational sequences from eight naturally occurring conversations of a single couple were analyzed. Sequences were characterized by the spouse’s participation in the self-initiated word searches of her partner, who had aphasia. Sequences were analyzed on a turn-by-turn basis to reveal their sequential organization. Results showed that participation was determined by interactional techniques and interactional resources. Interactional techniques included direct and indirect invitations to participate. Direct invitation was constructed via direct gaze or a wh- question. Indirect invitation was constructed with verbal and nonverbal signals, including specific metalanguage and downward gaze. Interactional resources were information states derived from both life experience and online analysis. Research and clinical implications are discussed.

Mobile Phones in Action

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Christian Licoppe
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Current Development ◽  
First Line ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Sequential Organization

This chapter discusses the research-oriented toward mobile communication and done within the perspective of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis (EM/CA). The first line of investigation focuses on the way specific affordances of mobile devices may enable or constrain certain actions and features of the sequential organization of talk. The second one is concerned with understanding how mobile phones and the kind of on-screen resources and events they make available on the move may constitute relevant resources in the organization of activities involving co-present participants. Eventually, to take into account the multiplication of communicative functionalities and social media apps currently available on smartphones and dealing in depth with the example of video-mediated communication, the author sketches the kind of research agenda that could make mutually relevant mobile communication research and EM/CA in the context of the current development of mobile technologies and resources.

Psychotherapist’s empathic responses to client’s troubles telling/feelings talk in psychotherapy: A conversation analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijin Wu
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Part Structure

AbstractUsing the method of conversation analysis, this study has examined the sequential organization of empathic talk in psychotherapy, analyzed its turn design as well as investigated its variations on turn construction. The empathic sequence can be characterized as a four-part structure: (1) the therapist soliciting troubles/feeling telling from the client; (2) the client’s report on the troubles/feelings talk; (3) the therapist’s empathy, and (4) the client’s response. Moreover, in addition to its unmarked turn construction “empathic talk without prefacing”, this study has found empathic talk takes on other three types of turn construction including so-prefaced empathic talk, particle-prefaced empathic talk and particle(s)+so-prefaced empathic talk. The research findings could reveal the interactional details of empathy in psychotherapy and thus contributes to the understanding of the nature and process of psychotherapy and counselling.

Sequential organization of hinting in online task-oriented L2 interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ufuk Balaman
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Distinct Type ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Task Oriented

Abstract This study aims to explore the sequential organization of hinting in an online task-oriented L2 interactional setting. Although hinting has been studied within conversation analysis literature, it has not yet been treated as a distinct type of social action. With this in mind, the study sets out to describe the sequential environment of hinting through the unfolding of the action with pre-hinting sequences initiated through the deployment of interrogatives, knowledge checks, and past references; maintained with base hinting sequences initiated through blah blah replacements, designedly incomplete utterances, and metalinguistic clues; and finally progressively resolved with screen-based hinting. Based on the examination of screen-recorded video-mediated interactions (14 hours) of geographically dispersed participants using multimodal conversation analysis, this study provides insights for an overall understanding of the interactional trajectory of hinting as a context-specific social action and contributes to research on L2 interaction in online settings.

scholarly journals Building connected discourse in non-native speech

Pragmatics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yo-An Lee
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Connected Discourse ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Native Speech ◽  
Professional Fields

The demand for proficient non-native speakers (NNSs) of English has increased across professional fields in recent years. While speaking skills involve a complex array of factors and constraints, previous studies resorted to unexamined perceptions or intuitive impressions drawn from surface linguistic features. Particularly missing is close analytic descriptions of non-native discourse that is produced in spontaneous contexts. The present study investigates the process by which NNSs of English produce connected discourse as it unfolds in real-time. The ability to produce connected discourse is considered a hallmark of advanced speaking proficiency and this study therefore focuses on tracing the sequential organization of multiple utterances that NNSs produce in spontaneous speech. Following the principles of conversation analysis (CA), the present paper analyzes three sets of excerpts demonstrating the contingent choices that NNSs make in building connected discourse. The findings offer empirical resources for non-native professionals to identify the practicality and generality of connected discourse in real-time speech contexts.

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