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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"talk-in-interaction"”.
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Structuring response: Information receipts in Greek talk-in-interaction
This thesis investigates some of the practices by which interactants engage in responding to an informing 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 …
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Grammar in Interaction: Polar Interrogative Sequences in Talk-in-Interaction
The current study investigates the sequential organisation of the polar interrogative sequence. By implementing Conversation Analysis ethnomethodology, the study explores the action and form-related preferences which underpin the structure and the various trajectories of this type of sequence. The …
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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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Checking recognition: do you remember and do you know in talk-in-interaction
This dissertation examines how speakers check recognition of knowledge and memory they presume to be shared by their co-participants. In this conversation analytic study, I analyze recognition checks with (do you) remember (Chapter 3), (do) you know (Chapter 4) in American English and German …
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Towards Collaboration: A Comparative, Longitudinal, Conversation Analysis of Change in Talk-in-Interaction in Psychotherapy
… analysis to describe changes at the level of talk-in-interaction across four points of time (beginning, middle, late, and ending sessions) in four different psychotherapies: two “successful” psychotherapies and two “unsuccessful” ones, with the author of this study conducting the …
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Understanding ‘stuckness’ : Descriptions and interpretations of how EFL speakers and a native speaker co-manage talk-in-interaction
Taking turns in keeping the talk going is a co-managed accomplishment. When the talk does not flow, the moment is noticeable and accountable. I am proposing the use of a new term, ‘stuckness’, as an organizational concept which describes certain moments in NSNNS talk when participants temporarily …
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Black British Identities : The Dialogics of a Hybridity-of-the-Everyday.
This study looks at hybridity as an everyday interactional phenomenon using conversations on lived experience, amongst Black British people of Caribbean heritage between the ages of 16-40 who are from London, the Midlands and West Yorkshire. Black British identifications in talk-in-interaction are …
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The sequential organisation of offers and acceptances in Saudi Arabic
This thesis investigates the sequential organisation of offers and acceptance in Saudi Arabic talk-in-interaction. This investigation is implemented through the use of the methodology of Conversation Analysis. Through analysing Saudi Arabic naturally-occurring data, I look at offer sequences as a …
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Repair in the context of theater rehearsals : a conversation analytic approach
The thesis deals mainly with the following four points: - similarities and differences between repair in everyday talk-in-interaction and repair in the context of theater rehearsals - asymmetrical relationship between director, prompter, and actors - impact of the asymmetrical relationship between …
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The Politics of Town Hall Meetings: Analyzing Constituent Relations-in-Interaction
<p>The <em>politics of town meetings</em> proposes that town hall meetings are institutions of representative democracy that present an opportunity for constituents to hold their elected representatives accountable in a public setting. <em>Constituent relations-in-interaction</em> glosses a complex …
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DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN KOREAN AND ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL CHILDREN AND IN KOREAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… explores the use of discourse markers (DMs) in talk-in-interaction of Korean-English bilingual children and their monolingual peers in two languages. The corpus-driven analysis proposes a core meaning of the two DMs as signaling contextual divergence in two monolingual groups. Both …
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Doing Italian as a Foreign Language: investigating talk about language and culture in three British university classrooms
The study presented in this thesis focuses on teacher-student talk-in-interaction in three Italian classes for beginners taught by two teachers, one British and one Italian, in two British universities. The aims of the study are to: (1) investigate the views of language and of language …
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Facilitating children’s narratives in the classroom. From self-determination to authorship of knowledge. An exploration of pedagogical innovation to promote children’s agency in London primary schools
This thesis illustrates a research project that includes the design, use and analysis of facilitation to promote children’s access to the role of authors of knowledge during classroom interactions. The research is motivated by the idea that promoting children’s status as constructors of knowledge …
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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
… 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 Speaker( NNS) in the course of telling a story. Emergent communication problems during the …
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Narratives of brain injury and self-management after hospital discharge
Specific processes for supporting self-management, as prioritised in contemporary Western healthcare policy, generally focus on biomedical aspects of managing a condition that is constructed as a separate entity from the rest of a person’s life. However, uncertainties in supporting self-management …
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Ressources linguistiques pour la gestion de l'intersubjectivité dans la parole en interaction : Analyses conversationnelles et phonétiques
… 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 action embodies …
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Achieving teamwork: a grounded theory investigation in selected stroke units in the north of England
The development of collaborative interdisciplinary working is a key element of contemporary health policy. Future healthcare workers will need to work. individually, collaboratively and in teams if they are to meet the complex and changing needs of the patients they serve. The literature related to …
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Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice.
<p>In the late 1980’s an enormous field of literature and professional mandates was developed, based on the premise that different cultural groups have different health values. This field has colloquially come to be known as Cultural Competence. However, problematically, the terms, outcomes and …
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Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice
<p>In the late 1980’s an enormous field of literature and professional mandates was developed, based on the premise that different cultural groups have different health values. This field has colloquially come to be known as Cultural Competence. However, problematically, the terms, outcomes and …
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Forms and functions of the French discourse particle hein in French mundane conversation: a conversation analysis perspective
… the forms and functions of the French particle hein in mundane talk-in-interaction between French 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 …
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