scholarly journals “As it’s our last exchange next time…”. The closure initiation in email counseling

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Thurnherr
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Counseling Process ◽  
Relational Work ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Email Counseling ◽  
Relational Strategies

This paper reports from an interpersonal pragmatics perspective on the negotiation of closure of the counseling process in five naturally occurring email counseling exchanges between one counselor and five different clients. I focus on three aspects: who initiates closure, in what form, and in which interpersonal context. A mixed methodology consisting of a discourse-analytic approach combined with a participant interview serves to examine the closure initiation from multiple perspectives. Results show that extensive collaborative work (e. g. relational strategies such as showing empathy or praising) is carried out to create a “closure-relevant” environment in which the initiation of closure can occur. The counselor, who initiates all five closures, tailors the initiation according to clients’ progress so far and elicits specific relational work (e. g. self-praise) from clients that aims to position them as active self-helpers. It is the collaborative work by counselor and clients that facilitates the closure initiation of the counseling process. The analysis of the collaborative work from an interpersonal pragmatics perspective provides further empirical evidence of the link between relational work and identity construction.

Positioning selves, doing relational work and constructing identities in interview talk

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Local Interactions ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Vietnamese Woman ◽  
Relational Work ◽  
Interview Conversation

AbstractThis article draws on positioning theory and uses Bamberg’s (2005) three-level analytic approach to analyze how identity construction and relational work implicate the other and are co-constitutive processes in local interactions. To that end, it examines a sequence of excerpts taken from an interview involving the author and a Vietnamese woman and analyzes the co-constructed positioning of self and other that developed over the course of the interview conversation. The article focuses on how (non)delicate topics are introduced, responded to, modified and developed as the interviewee reports on past experience and adopts evaluative stances toward topics initiated by the interviewer. The study further highlights how normative ideologies are indexed and reconstituted in such talk, and points to their role in making particular identities relevant and in mobilizing relational work in local interactions.

scholarly journals The Functions of Narrative Passages in Three Written Online Health Contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Thurnherr ◽  
Marie-Thérèse Rudolf von Rohr ◽  
Miriam A. Locher
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Relational Work ◽  
Advice Giving ◽  
Email Counseling ◽  
Narrative Functions

AbstractThis paper investigates and compares the functions of narrative passages in three computermediated health practices centering on advice-giving: (1) email counseling at a UK university, (2) online forums providing peer support for quitters of smoking, and (3) anti-smoking websites by UK governmental, commercial and charitable institutions. We found that the functions of the narrative passages are manifold and often overlapping. They range from seeking advice, giving advice, indicating/seeking agreement, supporting a claim, showing compliance with advice given to reporting on progress and success. In a second step, these insights were linked to how the narrative passages were used for identity construction and relational work. The results show that narratives are employed to create various identities, such as authentic advice-seekers, active self-helpers, successful quitters and advice-givers. Our comparison reveals that narrative functions utilized in all three practices exhibit nuanced differences due to medium factors and interactional goals of the practices. Finally, in these contexts of self-improvement, narratives document stability or transformation in the sense of clients’ improved health and smokers’ change to becoming non-smokers respectively.

Referring to past actions in caregiver–child interaction in Japanese

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoyo Takagi
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
Past Experiences

In naturally occurring everyday caregiver–child interaction, a major part of what is hearable as storytelling or an incipient form of it is talk about participants’ (mostly children’s) past experiences. Adopting a conversation-analytic approach, this study attempts to show how explicit references to children’s past actions formulated in the form of [(X) did (Y)], where X is the young child interacting with the caregiver, can engender opportunities for participants to develop telling activities. Through the detailed analysis of talk and embodied features of telling sequences in each case, the analysis will reveal how the [(X) did (Y)]-format utterance is utilized for co-constructing the telling, and what social and interactional consequences are accomplished through the telling occasioned by such reference.

Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic marker sådan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Christian Schoning ◽  
Jørn Helder ◽  
Chloé Diskin-Holdaway
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Self Repair ◽  
Interactional Discourse

Abstract The last three decades have witnessed increasing interest in discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), both with regards to their high frequency in spoken discourse and their multifunctionality in interaction. Most studies have centered on English, with studies on Danish restricted to a handful of previous interactional discourse analyses. This paper is a preliminary investigation of the Danish word sådan (commonly glossed as ‘such’ or ‘like this/that’). A qualitative, form-based, discourse analytic approach is undertaken on over 40 minutes of naturally occurring Danish talk to argue that sådan qualifies as a DPM. In service of textual, subjective, and intersubjective macro-functions, sådan illustrates; exemplifies; marks hesitation; approximates a quantity; mitigates, hedges, or softens; and allows self-correction or self-repair. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for sådan’s place in the Danish DPM system and our understanding of DPMs across languages.

scholarly journals First empirical evidence of naturally occurring androgenesis in vertebrates

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 170200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Morgado-Santos ◽  
Sara Carona ◽  
Luís Vicente ◽  
Maria João Collares-Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Natural Population ◽  
Natural Occurrence ◽  
Human Interference ◽  
Mitochondrial Markers ◽  
Viable Offspring ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Mitochondrial Fragment

Androgenesis among vertebrates is considered a rare phenomenon, with some cases reported so far, but linked to experiments involving gamete manipulation (artificial androgenesis). Herein, we report the first empirical evidence of the natural occurrence of spontaneous androgenesis in a vertebrate, the Squalius alburnoides allopolyploid complex. A genetically screened random sample of a natural population was allowed to reproduce in an isolated pond without any human interference, and the viable offspring obtained was later analysed for paternity. Both nuclear and mitochondrial markers showed that the only allodiploid fish found among all the allotriploid offspring was androgenetically produced by an allodiploid male. This specimen had no female nuclear genomic input, and the sequence of the mitochondrial fragment examined differed from that of the male progenitor, matching one of the parental females available in the pond, probably the mother. The possible role of androgenesis in the reproductive dynamics of this highly successful vertebrate complex is discussed.

scholarly journals Blurring the boundaries between domestic and digital spheres

Pragmatics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Rosenbaun ◽  
Sheizaf Rafaeli ◽  
Dennis Kurzon
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Digital Sphere

This study explores the phenomenon of multiactivity during recreational video-mediated communication (VMC) through the analysis of competing engagements. From a data corpus of naturally occurring interactions in public Google Hangouts, we focus on instances of competing engagements triggered by the co-presence of unratified participants in broadcasters’ physical environments. As users are immersed in their everyday spaces, interferences from their domestic sphere are common occurrences that break the participatory framework established in the digital sphere. Following a conversation analytic approach, we intend to show that these interferences lead to competing engagements that can be exploited rather than simply dealt with. Drawing on literature on multiactivity, we argue that participants at times organize and coordinate these multiple engagements to add playfulness and advance their interactions. In sum, this study aims to highlight how situated competing streams of action are coordinated and the purpose they may serve in recreational VMC.

Gesture reuse as distributed embodied cognition

Gesture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Johanne S. Philipsen ◽  
Sarah Bro Trasmundi
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Intimate Link

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the intimate link between hands and minds – or rather: How the hands are a means for exploring thoughts in collaboration with others. Specifically, this study investigates a series of locally occurring instances of gestural reuse in naturally occurring psychotherapeutic interaction. The repetition of gestural sequences and formats in interaction has been researched as serving pragmatic functions of building cohesion (McNeill & Levy, 1993) and managing different aspects of turn-taking (Koschmann & LeBaron, 2002). Taking a micro-analytic approach to the study of gesture, we show how reusing other participants’ gestures in the context of psychotherapy serves additional functions: As affordances for shared, embodied cognition. The study contributes to the growing body of research on gesture as a co-participated, co-operative (Goodwin, 2013, 2018) and embodied phenomenon that criss-cross the boundaries of inside-the-skull, individual-centered and socially distributed cognition.

scholarly journals Not a fact: A synchronic analysis of el hecho de and o facto de

Probus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Patrícia Amaral ◽  
Manuel Delicado Cantero
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Semantic Properties

Abstract This paper provides empirical evidence showing that the clause-taking nominals el hecho de (Spanish) and o facto de (Portuguese) are not reliable tests of factivity of predicates, as commonly assumed in the literature. Naturally occurring data from both languages show that these nominals are compatible with a wide range of predicates and that they occur in sentences with both factive and non-factive interpretations. Our findings contribute to the debate on the syntactic and semantic properties of clause-taking nominal constructions, clausal nominalization in Ibero-Romance, and to current research on the nature of factivity.

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