scholarly journals Scaffolding Embodied Access for Categorization in Interactions between a Blind Child and Her Mother

Languages ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Carolyn Rickard ◽  
Mara Strother ◽  
Barbara A. Fox ◽  
Chase Wesley Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Blind Child ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Current Activity ◽  
Blind Children ◽  
Congenitally Blind

During language acquisition, sighted children have immediate and temporally stable access to the ‘gestalt’ of an object, including particular features that suggest its categorization as part of a class of objects. Blind children, however, must effectively and productively constitute the whole object from its constitutive parts in order to categorize them. While prior studies have suggested that varied experience and appropriate sensory access can contribute to this process, little attention has been given to how this is accomplished. The present study aims to address this issue by using conversation analysis to explore embodied understanding and categorization work between a 26-month-old congenitally blind child and her sighted mother as they play with various animal toys. Here we provide an analysis of a segment involving a particular toy (a cow plush), and ask two questions: (1) During play, how does Mother scaffold embodied routines for the identification of criterial information about a category, and (2) How is knowledge of varied exemplars, not directly accessible within the current activity, then made available to the child? Detailed examination of the linguistic and embodied practices employed by this mother–child dyad provides a concrete example of how non-visual modalities help scaffold the learning of categorization techniques, as well as illustrates the import that the examination of naturally occurring social interaction can have for theories of language and embodied cognition.

Producing and learning to produce utterances in social interaction

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 207-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Dausendschön-Gay
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

Developmental research on first and second language acquisition is mainly concerned with cognitive, linguistic or pragmatic aspects of individual speech production treated separately and based on the tenets of separate disciplines or approaches (psycholinguistics, psychology of language, constructivism, conversation analysis). However, some studies try to integrate questions of language acquisition into the much broader context of social interaction in general. This paper argues in favour of such integration, taking a conversationalist perspective on speech and discourse production in social — face-to-face — interaction. In particular, it argues for the systematic integration of all kinds of body movements (traditionally called gestures) and prosody into the analysis of empirical data as a fundamental basis for the development of an interactional grammar and its study in an acquisitional research framework.

Self-authorizing action: On let me X in English social interaction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Elliott M. Hoey
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Person ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
Naturally Occurring

Abstract This article contributes to conversation analytic research on the formatting of imperative actions by focusing on the English first person imperative let me/lemme X as it appears in a range of naturally occurring interactions. I argue that lemme X is a practice for displacing what was projectably relevant in a given environment in favor of a self-authorized action. This as a result tends to advance the speaker's interests/initiatives. The analysis accounts for speakers’ apparent presumption of permission in unilaterally undertaking their lemme X action by reference to the placement, design, and subsequent orientations to the self-authorized action. The construction is discussed in terms of the distribution of agency and it is suggested that lemme X is particularly suited to advancing activities that favor autonomous action by the speaker and which involve the recipient only minimally. (Conversation analysis, imperatives, directives, English, agency)*

Problems in the Construction of Reality in Congenitally Blind Children

1977 ◽  
Vol 71 (10) ◽  
pp. 425-429
Author(s):  
Sylvia Santin ◽  
Joyce Nesker Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Blind Child ◽  
Affective Development ◽  
Blind Children ◽  
The World ◽  
Congenitally Blind

Argues the position that, given different sensory equipment, and therefore a different data base, the congenitally blind child necessarily develops and organizes his perceptions of the world in an intrinsically different way from the sighted. Aspects of sensory, cognitive and affective development are examined within this conceptual framework.

scholarly journals Affiliation in interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk

Interpreting ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Vranjes ◽  
Hanneke Bot ◽  
Kurt Feyaerts ◽  
Geert Brône
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Listener Responses ◽  
Mutual Gaze ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Therapeutic Dialogue ◽  
Gaze Behaviour ◽  
Tracking Technology ◽  
Mobile Eye Tracking

Abstract The aim of this article is to explore how affiliation (Stivers 2008) with the patient is displayed and interactionally achieved in the context of an interpreter-mediated therapeutic dialogue. More specifically, we focus on the interplay between affiliative listener responses – especially head nods – and gaze in this setting. Interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk is not only a setting that has received very little systematic scrutiny in the literature, but it is also particularly interesting for the study of listener responses. Drawing on the insights from Conversation Analysis, a naturally occurring interpreter-mediated therapeutic session was analysed that had been recorded using mobile eye-tracking technology. This approach allowed for a detailed analysis of the interlocutors’ synchronous gaze behaviour in relation to speech and head nods during the interaction. The results revealed differences in the interpreter’s and the therapist’s affiliative listener responses that were linked to the interactional goals of the encounter and to their social roles. Moreover, we found a strong relationship between mutual gaze and head nods as tokens of affiliation. Thus, these findings provide support for the inclusion of gaze in studies of interpreter-mediated dialogue and, more broadly, in the study of affiliation in social interaction.

INTERACTION AND GRAMMAR.Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, & Sandra A. Thompson (Eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 468. $74.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Helena Halmari
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Interactional Sociolinguistics ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
Naturally Occurring

Interaction and grammar is a valuable addition to the Cambridge “Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics” series. The book is a collection of papers that all, in one way or another, and within the frameworks of linguistic anthropology, functional grammar, or conversation analysis, investigate the interface, or rather the essential interrelatedness, of language and real-time social interaction. The value of the book for the L2 researcher or practitioner is perhaps not direct; however, because much of L2 research focuses on interaction and draws its data from naturally occurring discourse, the indirect contribution is notable. In particular, the chapter by Fox, Hayashi, and Jasperson beautifully underscores those typological differences between English and Japanese that lead to different interactional strategies—an issue of direct relevance to L2 studies.

scholarly journals Repetitions, Their Phonetic Features And Functions In Kurmanji Kurdish

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Aveen Mohammed Hasan ◽  
Baydaa Mohammed Saeed Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Phonetic Features ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Issues

The study deals with the analysis of repetitions, their phonetic structures and functions as demonstrated in the organisation of talk-ininteraction in Kurdish. The repetitions are described as complex phonetic objects whose design has received no previous attention and are neglected by the scholars in the fields of discourse and conversation analysis studies in Kurdish. The main aims of the study are to identify the phonetic characteristics of repetitions in Kurdish, their functions and the relationship between differences in the phonetic features and their functions in speech. The study integrates the methodology of conversation analysis and impressionistic and instrumental phonetics to show how repetitions in a conversation are managed by the participants. The data used in this study comes from different types of natural speech, namely, face to face conversations, radio-phone-ins of Northern Kurdish. 27 cases of self repetitions have been analysed and they are lexical, phrasal and clausal with a range of syntactic forms. The study contributes to the theoretical issues of the prosody-pragmatics interface and participants’ understanding of naturally occurring discourse. It is hoped that such a study may contribute to language and information processing by providing a detailed analysis of patterns and functions of repetition in social interaction.

Comment on “A Relational Framework for Integrating the Study of Empathy in Children and Adults”: A Conversation Analytic Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
Maxi Kupetz
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Relational Framework

This comment on Main and Kho’s suggestion for “a relational framework for integrating the study of empathy in children and adults” (2020) takes a conversation analytic perspective. First, I will summarize how empathy is conceptualized within conversation analysis (CA), an observational approach that aims at reconstructing naturally occurring social interaction. Second, Main and Kho’s suggestions for further research will be commented on, supporting their take on empathy as a relational phenomenon.

scholarly journals An investigation into gender specifics of communicants’ pitch attunement in natural English conversation

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-156
Author(s):  
Malvina A. Demina
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Communication Accommodation ◽  
Communication Accommodation Theory ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Natural Conversation ◽  
Male Talk ◽  
Accommodation Theory

The present empirical research takes place within the framework of Communication Accommodation Theory, bringing to the fore the prosodic organization of this speech phenomenon. This paper presents some research findings concerning the melodic component of prosodic accommodation in natural conversation. In this study, prosodic accommodation is viewed from the perspectives of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis with special regard to the phonopragmatic approach. The paper provides the author’s observations about melodic manifestations of speakers’ intentions and presuppositions, as well as the prosodic realization of communicative dominance in natural conversation. The focus on gender specifics of speech accommodation is communicatively justified since, according to the findings, women and men have gender-related markers of prosodic alignment and employ different melodic strategies in naturally occurring social interaction. Female conversing demonstrates numerous units of recipiency (neutral or affiliating) prosodically designed so as to fit in continuous talk and not to break its coherence. Male talk, on the contrary, may contain instances of melodic divergence and competition for communicative dominance in conversation.

Japanese two-year-olds’ spontaneous participation in storytelling activities as social interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emi Morita
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Complex Activity ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Child Language Acquisition ◽  
Participation Frameworks

The present study observes the very early stages of children’s storytelling activities in order to investigate how children younger than 3 years old participate in this socially complex activity at a time when both their linguistic and their interactional repertoires are still less than fully developed. Child language acquisition research has reported that children become skilful with narratives around 4 or 5 years of age, and suggests that younger children’s ability to talk about past experience is relatively underdeveloped before that time, when they are still generally poor at providing orientating information about who, when and where. Drawing upon a corpus of naturally occurring interactions in Japanese, my analysis of children’s spontaneous storytelling reveals that despite their limited linguistic resources, 2-year-old children’s participation in storytelling activities are skilfully organized into particular participation frameworks by using the various resources that are presently available to them. This paper thus argues that children’s competence in supplying specific information in their storytelling is not just a function of their developmental trajectory, but is also heavily influenced by the interactional environment that they find themselves in and motivated by the knowledge statuses of themselves and others. It shows conclusively, too, that some 2-year-old children are already quite capable in initiating or in participating in storytelling activity without the adult provision of a scaffolding for content.

Metaphor Comprehension By The Congenitally Blind Children

2017 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
عالية بدر عبدالله ◽  
ضيف الله زامل حربي
Keyword(s):  
Metaphor Comprehension ◽  
Blind Children ◽  
Congenitally Blind
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