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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"conversational analysis"”.
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The story in conversation: towards an integration of speech act theory and conversational analysis.
… of stories in an area of research that allows analysis in terms )of the interaction of story-teller and addressees in a conversation. Within this area of linguistic research, which may broadly be termed pragmatics, some definitions of story-telling are examined which explicitly claim to be …
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Interpreting and the clinician : a conversational analysis of the interpreted consultation in a paediatric hospital
… in the consultation, was interviewed. Detailed analysis of the consultations was done using the methods of conversational analysis. Thematic analysis of the post-consultation interviews was done and the findings triangulated with the themes emerging out of the conversational analysis. The …
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Patient Safety As An Interactional Achievement: Conversational Analysis In The Trauma Center Of An Inner City Hospital
… this dissertation, I apply the methodology of Conversational Analysis to highlight the informal communication of an emergency room work group with the objective of discovering recurrent patterns of interaction and the inherent relational work necessary to accomplish the safe medical care of …
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Speech act theory, discourse structure and indirect speech
… examining two rival theories: the discourse analysis approach and the conversational analysis approach. Discourse analysis is broadly sympathetic to speech act theory, whereas, conversational analysis is not. The claims of conversational analysis are examined and are found to be wanting in …
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Conversing Opportunities into Existence: An Examination of Discourse Structures used within the Opportunity Development of Nascent Entrepreneurship
… they encounter through feedback exchanges. Using conversational analysis, several conversation patterns are identified that shape the emergence process. Legitimacy associations, status quo assertions, experiential actualities, engagement hypotheticals, and deontic declarations contribute to the …
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Internet of Props. A performative ontology and design framework for the internet of things.
… model and framework; 4. a combined-evaluation conversational analysis methodology that assesses the performativity of the setting and the Props, through linguistic and socio-behavioural studies. Inspired by the concepts of ontological theatre, the entanglement of humans and non-humans, and the …
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English-Swahili Code Switching: An Intersection between Stance and Identity
… also incorporates stance, as a great tool for analysis of ways in which we can predict motivations for CS in bilinguals. In an endeavor to explain the language patterns in English-Swahili bilinguals in Memphis and Tallahassee Florida in the United States of America. The following study address …
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Language and social structure : A case study of the tourism industry in Kenya
… work locales which I offer in the form of an analysis of the tourist industry suggests ways of integrating individual speech choices with wider social forces in society. On the basis of criticisms of language planning literature I additionally propose consideration of the sociology of …
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THE DICTOGLOSS PROCEDURE AS A VEHICLE OF GRAMMATICAL CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING : A CASE STUDY
… Picture and the Focus-on-Forms segments, and the Conversational Analysis Transcription on Focus-on-Meanings segments. The data analysis showed that learners not only focused on forms, using a simple code, but also on meanings with a more elaborate form. Furthermore they applied the bottom-up …
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Analysis of conversation: politeness, sequence and topic with special reference to troubles-talk in Turkish
… of politeness in stretches of talk. and covers conversational components like adjacency pairs, sequences, topic, as well as turn internal features such as dispreference markers, and to some extent, mitigation techniques. Troubles-talk in naturally occurring Turkish conversations provides the …
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Making sense of humour: some pragmatic and political aspects
… the focus here is local and deep. The main analysis is of an utterance spoken by a comedian on a television chat show which is interpreted both as a joke and an insult, a situation which cries out for pragmatic attention. This dissertation sets out to uncover what is at work in this …
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Australian English Rising Intonation: Frequency and Function During Talk-in-Interaction
Research on Australian English has shown that in this variety, a high-rising intonation contour typically used with yes/no questions, is also often used with declarative statements (Guy et al. 1986, Fletcher et al., 2002, 2005). Previous researchers, working with data from sociolinguistic …
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The place of African Renaissance in the South African education
… research. Data was collected through interviews. Conversational analysis drew full transcript and recorded conversations that were carried out. Qualitative research was relevant in that the phenomenon under study was "seen throush the eyes" of the African people, thereby rejectins the deleterious …
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A Corpus-based analysis of the Construction of Identities in the BBC Sitcom Citizen Khan
… area of Birmingham. In order to carry out this analysis a 40,000 word corpus was created, consisting of transcripts of the thirteen episodes from the first two seasons of the sitcom. The analysis utilised an array of different analytical tools and approaches to carry out an in-depth textual and …