From Xu to the Development of L2 Interactional Competence: A Conversation Analytic Case Study

Dialogues are fundamentally driven by xu (C. Wang, 2016, 2017), a Chinese word meaning continuation that captures the process in which interlocutors participate in interaction through the actions of (utterance) completion, (content) extension, and (topic) creation (CEC). This article reports a conversation analytic case study designed to investigate how the continuation strategies of CEC are used in real-time communication to achieve mutual understanding, and thus to construct intersubjectivity (Verhagen, 2005) and promote the development of second language (L2) interactional competence. Our data consisted of audio and video recordings of a 25-minute conversation between two L2 English speakers, one expert and one novice, and a stimulated recall interview with them. Results revealed that the expert employed CEC at the early stage of interaction to maintain successful communication, and the novice gradually aligned with the expert and used CEC to achieve mutual understanding, construct intersubjectivity, and create opportunities for interaction and learning at the late stage, displaying her development of L2 interactional competence. Our findings have useful implications for theoretical and methodological development of the xu-argument studies as well as for xu-based L2 pedagogy.

“I’m Going to Ask You a Very Strange Question”: A Conversation Analytic Case Study of the Miracle Technique in Solution-Based Therapy

© Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article reports on a conversation analytic case study of the miracle technique as it is used in a solution focused therapeutic interview. It shows and describes the interactional structures and practices that are used to deliver the theoretical principles of the approach. An announcement by the therapist that a strange question would be asked marked the launch of the technique. Following the question announcement the therapist used a miracle story to provide the client with requisite background knowledge to answer the question. The question asked the client how she would be able to tell her problem had been miraculously solved. The therapist was able to progress the interview in therapeutically relevant ways by using repeats and modified repeats of the client’s responses to progress the interview. This study contributes to a better understanding of how the miracle technique is actually accomplished providing a sound empirical basis for future research and training using the approach.

“I’m Going to Ask You a Very Strange Question”: A Conversation Analytic Case Study of the Miracle Technique in Solution-Based Therapy

© Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article reports on a conversation analytic case study of the miracle technique as it is used in a solution focused therapeutic interview. It shows and describes the interactional structures and practices that are used to deliver the theoretical principles of the approach. An announcement by the therapist that a strange question would be asked marked the launch of the technique. Following the question announcement the therapist used a miracle story to provide the client with requisite background knowledge to answer the question. The question asked the client how she would be able to tell her problem had been miraculously solved. The therapist was able to progress the interview in therapeutically relevant ways by using repeats and modified repeats of the client’s responses to progress the interview. This study contributes to a better understanding of how the miracle technique is actually accomplished providing a sound empirical basis for future research and training using the approach.

A Question of Norton–Sullivan in the Analytic Case

In 1996, A. Norton and D. Sullivan asked the following question: If $f:\mathbb{T}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{T}^2$ is a diffeomorphism, $h:\mathbb{T}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{T}^2$ is a continuous map homotopic to the identity, and $h f=T_{\rho } h$, where $\rho \in \mathbb{R}^2$ is a totally irrational vector and $T_{\rho }:\mathbb{T}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{T}^2,\, z\mapsto z+\rho $ is a translation, are there natural geometric conditions (e.g., smoothness) on $f$ that force $h$ to be a homeomorphism? In [ 22], the 1st author and Z. Zhang gave a negative answer to the above question in the $C^{\infty }$ category: in general, not even the infinite smoothness condition can force $h$ to be a homeomorphism. In this article, we give a negative answer in the $C^{\omega }$ category (see also [ 22, Question 3]): we construct a real analytic conservative and minimal totally irrational pseudo-rotation of $\mathbb{T}^2$ that is semi-conjugate to a translation but not conjugate to a translation.

Characteristic of Midwife’s who Refer Complex Obstetrics Cases

Objective: To identify reasons for referring and characteristics of midwives who practice independently and its relation with complicated cases referred to RSCM.Method: Descriptive analytic case-control. Medical records of patients referred directly to RSCM in January 2016-July 2017 were obtained, then information about midwives and obstetric cases, along with its complications, were collected. Interview and analysis of six characteristics of midwives were conducted. Characteristics analyzed were age, education, training, duration of practice, number of patients ever treated, also distance and travel time of the referral process.Results: All midwives refer due to inadequate facilities. There is a statistically significant correlation between duration of practice and number of patients, with the complicated cases referred directly to RSCM, with OR 7.036 and 6.032, respectively.Conclusion: Midwives refer due to inadequate facilities, and so patients can be treated immediately. Characteristics that affect midwives to refer complicated cases: duration of practice and number of patients. It is necessary to re-evaluate the position of midwives who practiced independently in BPJS, refresher programs, and monitoring by relevant agencies. Further research is needed with more samples and combining midwives' and patients' characteristics in referral cases. Confounding and external factors are identified first in order to do a thorough analysis.Keywords: complicated cases, midwives' characteristics, midwives who practiced independently, referral, referral system. Abstrak Tujuan: Mengetahui alasan rujuk dan karakteristik bidan yang berpraktik mandiri serta hubungannya dengan kasus komplikatif yang dirujuk ke RSCM.Metode: Deskriptif analitik kasus kontrol. Data diambil dari rekam medis pasien yang dirujuk langsung ke RSCM di bulan Januari 2016 hingga Juli 2017, kemudian informasi mengenai data bidan dan kasus obstetri beserta komplikasinya dikumpulkan. Dilakukan wawancara dan analisis enam karakteristik bidan. Karakteristik yang dianalisis yaitu usia, pendidikan, pelatihan, lama waktu berpraktik, jumlah pasien yang pernah ditangani, serta jarak dan waktu tempuh proses merujuk. Hasil: Keseluruhan bidan merujuk karena fasilitas yang tidak memadai. Terdapat hubungan yang bermakna antara waktu praktik dan jumlah pasien yang pernah ditangani, dengan kasus komplikatif yang dirujuk langsung ke RSCM, dengan nilai OR 7.036 dan 6.032.Kesimpulan: Bidan merujuk karena fasilitas tidak memadai dan agar pasien langsung ditangani. Karakteristik bidan yang mempengaruhi dalam merujuk yaitu lama waktu praktik dan jumlah pasien yang ditangani. Perlu dilakukan evaluasi ulang mengenai kedudukan bidan yang berpraktik mandiri di BPJS, program penyegaran bidan, serta monitoring oleh instansi terkait. Perlu penelitian lanjut dengan sampel lebih banyak serta menggabungkan karakteristik bidan dan pasien pada kasus-kasus rujukan. Faktor perancu dan eksternal diidentifikasi terlebih dahulu agar analisis dilakukan menyeluruh.Kata kunci: bidan yang berpraktik mandiri, karakteristik bidan, kasus komplikatif rujukan, sistem rujukan

ON THE HARMONIC ZYGMUND SPACES

In this paper we study a class ${\mathcal{Z}}_{H}$ of harmonic mappings on the open unit disk $\mathbb{D}$ in the complex plane that is an extension of the classical (analytic) Zygmund space. We extend to the elements of this class a characterisation that is valid in the analytic case. We also provide a similar result for a closed separable subspace of ${\mathcal{Z}}_{H}$ which we call the little harmonic Zygmund space.