7>conversation analysis

Question 1

Conversation analysis (CA)=

Answer 1

involves the SEQUENTIAL norms underlying the organisation of social norms (aka how speech acts interact with one another & how they are sequentially organised)

Question 2

Conversation functions as…. depending on…?

Answer 2

a system, depending on its contextual situatedness

Question 3

Talk-in-interaction depends on?

Answer 3

the organisation of turn-taking

Question 4

turn taking=

Answer 4

the relative ordering of speakers, of construction units & of different types of utterance

Question 5

sequential organisation (broad)=

Answer 5

depends on turn-taking (the relative ordering of utterance & actions)

Question 6

sequence organisation (narrower)=

Answer 6

the organisation of courses of action enacted within turns-at-talk (sequences of actions/moves as vehicles for getting some general activity done

Question 7

2 ways to turn take?>

Answer 7

-1 selection by prior speaker (whose turn action requires a turn with a ‘responsive action’ from next speaker)
-2 self-selection (claim turn-space by starting a first TCU)

Question 8

TCU=

Answer 8

turn constructional unit

Question 9

Transition relevant pace=

Answer 9

1>when a speaker approaches the possible completion of a 1st TCU in a turn, transition to a next speaker can become relevant

2>transition to next speaker is accomplished just after the possible completion of the TCU in progress

3> the span that begins with the imminence of possible completion is a “transition-relevance-place”

Question 10

Turn-constructional units=

Answer 10

the building blocks out of which turns are fashioned

Question 11

TCU’s can be made of>

Answer 11

sentences (“im finally home”)
clauses (“on the shelf”)
lexical items (“there, no, old trafford”)

Question 12

what are TCU’s bounded by?

Answer 12

the phonetic realisation of ‘intonational packaging’ (thus are phonetically separated)

Question 13

2 features of adjacency pairs>

Answer 13

1>hearers should project the imminent possible completion of a TCU & what actions it is implementing
2>A TCU serves to (i) select the next speaker & (ii) what sort of responses that action makes relevant for that next speaker

Question 14

FPP=

Answer 14

first-pair-part (main action of speaker A)

Question 15

SPP=

Answer 15

second-pair-part (main action of speaker B)

Question 16

Affect of conditional relevance on an adjacency pair>

Answer 16

conditional relevance DEFINES an adjacency pair–>it determines sequences (e.g. greeting-greeting; qn-ans)

Question 17

An adjacency pair=

Answer 17

a unit of two turns by different speakers

Question 18

What are ‘pair-parts’ united by in an adjacency pair?

Answer 18

a ‘relevance rule’

Question 19

what is a ‘relevance rule’ in pair-parts of adjacency pairs?>

Answer 19

relevance rule= upon the recognisable production of the first pair-part, the recipient should produce a second pair-part of the SAME sequence type

Question 20

when may ‘TROUBLES’ arise?>

Answer 20

when joint structure of adjacency pairs & relevance is not JOINTLY observed interactionally

Question 21

When a summon (directive) is not abided to in the second pair-part, what happens?>

Answer 21

• pursuit
• inference
• report (“you are not answering; “she didnt answer”)

Question 22

Pre-expansions=

Answer 22

an adjacency pair that occurs before the first pair-part of a base adjacency pair & projects the relevance of that sequence (e.g. a pre-invitation)

Question 23

what are pre-expansions mostly used for?>

Answer 23

to create alignment with the interlocutor & avoid TROUBLES

Question 24

counter=

Answer 24

responding to the just completed first pair part with the SAME FORMULA being redirected at the one who just did it (e.g. “whats this?” “why dont you tell me?”)

Question 25

Announcement sequences=

Answer 25

sequences in which tellers ‘launch’ to convey “news” on their own intiative
(e.g. “do you wanna know what happened yesterday?” “what” “this..”)