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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Conversation Analysis (CA)"”.
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How non-native speakers make do with words when doing things with words : an analysis of communication strategies in storytelling by Mandarin-speaking learners of English
This study employs a conversation analysis (CA) approach, which is concerned with the analysis of closely transcribed examples of actual talk recorded in naturally occurring settings. The study aims to describe and analyse sequences of actions generated by Native Speakers( NS) and Non-Native …
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Structuring response: Information receipts in Greek talk-in-interaction
… in Greek talk-in-interaction. Using the analytical methodology of Conversation Analysis (CA), I investigate the ways in which responses to informings are typically constructed and how speakers recruit the assistance of their interlocutors in order to format their following action by examining …
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Therapists’ responses to young people’s anger: a Conversation Analysis approach
… Psychotherapy (STPP) Method: This study used Conversation Analysis (CA) to analyse 10 patient-therapist conversations in extracts extrapolated from 4 different patient-therapist couples. The four treatments were audio-recorded as part of the STPP arm of the IMPACT study, a randomised …
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Measuring Interactivity in Audio Teleconferencing using Conversation Analysis
… engineering metrics and work from the field of Conversation Analysis (CA) to fulfil this aim. Specifically, techniques are developed to identify conversation attributes using objective measures of speech performance to help determine the quality of experience and ease of conversational flow …
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The Narrative Performances of Teenage Girls: Participation, Identity, and Authority as the Foundation for Power
… on narrative discourse has shown that narratives can act as the catalyst for the complex co/construction of identity especially in social situations of talk, little work has been done to focus on the way teenagers, particularly girls, use this discourse to their benefit as they fulfill social and …
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The pragmatics of palavering in Kikoongo
Studies in African languages beyond the common core of linguistics are lacking. This motivates this dissertation which investigates the use of Kikoongo, a Bantu language, focusing on natural data produced by the Maniaanga of BesiNgombe region, Bas-Zaire, Zaire. The data are referred to as palavers. …
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EXAMINING THE USE OF L1+ IN THE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: A CONVERSATION ANALYTIC STUDY OF STUDENT PRACTICES
… engage with other students in the class. Empirical analysis is needed to understand how and for what purposes the L1+ is used. This study takes a micro-analytic approach using Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine L1+ practices that students engage in and the actions that are accomplished by …
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Ressources linguistiques pour la gestion de l'intersubjectivité dans la parole en interaction : Analyses conversationnelles et phonétiques
This dissertation deals with conversational practices through which interactants manage issues of intersubjectivity, i.e. mutual understanding for all practical purposes. Intersubjectivity is understood in a procedural sense, and as built into the infrastructure of interaction, where each next …
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Towards a Multilingual Future: The Ecology of Language at a University in Eastern Ukraine
… the Russian and Ukrainian languages have historically alternated in policy and practice in their official status and social prestige. As in many areas of the world, English is emerging in Ukraine as a language of economic value, social prestige, and education though it is not a language of wider …
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An Interactional Analysis of Adult Cognitive Assessment
Psychological tests often include a standardized protocol, which gives specific instructions to clinicians on how the tests are to be administered. This protocol is intended to minimize variation across test administrations, allowing the test to yield reliable and valid measurements. Clinicians are …
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Getting Lost in Email: How and Why Users Spend More Time in Email than Intended
… individual sessions, and investigated the gratifications sought from email use. For the first study, I performed an exploratory experiment in the laboratory to determine how participants assessed the importance of individual emails (N=10). The next investigation I undertook involved three …
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Language Expertise as a Source of Dispute in Bilingual Couple Talk
… in talk between bilingual couples communicating in Japanese. Specifically I examine naturally occurring face-to-face talk between Japanese wives and their American husbands who communicate primarily in Japanese at home. Conversation analysis (CA) is employed to document occasions where the …
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Scientific laws and causality in the philosophy of second language acquisition: A neo-Aristotelian approach
… cognitivist tradition that stretches back to Descartes. This cognitivist influence is particularly visible in the application of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar to SLA (e.g., White, 1989, 2003, 2007) and in Doughty and Long’s (2003) call for SLA to abide under the same disciplinary roof as cognitive …
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Pedagogical artifacts in teacher-initiated response pursuits: a conversation analytic study of interaction in the French foreign language classroom
Using Conversation Analysis (CA), this dissertation explores teachers' use of two pedagogical artifacts, specifically chalkboards and PowerPoint slides, in French foreign language classrooms. Based on a corpus of 29 hours of university-level French foreign language classes, the analyses provide an …
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Word searches in L1 and L2 Italian conversation: re-establishing intersubjectivity
… in native and non-native speakers in Italian conversations. The main objective of the present study is to fill a gap in previous research analyzing a particular instance of repair, word search, which focuses on lexical items, both in native (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs). Word searches …
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A conversation analytic study on teaching moments observed in free conversations between Japanese and American friends
Utilizing the methodology of Conversation Analysis (CA), this study examines teaching moments observed in free conversations by pairs of Japanese and American friends. CA’s detailed turn-by-turn analysis reveals that teaching of vocabulary, idioms, and culture occurs when native speakers orient to …
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Forms and functions of the French discourse particle hein in French mundane conversation: a conversation analysis perspective
… native speakers. This study was conducted using Conversation Analysis (CA) as methodology. The data for this study consist of four different sets of videotaped and audio-taped, non-elicited mundane conversation, yielding a total of 6 hours of conversation. Speakers included six family members and …
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Verbal Disagreement in Saudi Arabic and British English Casual Conversations: Cross-cultural and gender comparisons
… in Saudi Arabic (SaA) and British English (BrE) casual conversations. It particularly focuses on both pragmatic and structural patterns of naturally-occurring disagreements in the two cultural groups. In addition to examining the variable of cultural background, the impact of the two variables of …
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Group planning among L2 learners of Italian: a conversation analytic perspective
The present work aims at contributing to classical SLA planning research by developing a behavioral respecification of planning. To this end, I adopt a process-oriented, conversation analytic approach in the analysis of thirteen planning sessions, conducted by four groups of adult learners of …
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A Comparison of the Effects of Comprehension-Based and Production-Based Instruction on the Acquisition of Vocabulary and Grammar by Young Japanese Learners of English
… (PBI). It was motivated by both pedagogical and theoretical issues. The pedagogical issue was my need to find an effective way of teaching very young beginner-level children English in my own private language school in Japan and my dissatisfaction with the present-practice-produce …