Action Flashcards
What is position and composition?
Composition as well as position is key – people will interpret something depending on the position of the word or phrase.
E.g. at the beginning of a statement (request), pre-invitations (“what are you up to?”)
Where are requests found?
can very late in a conversation
E.g. “oh by the way, can I borrow your notes?” – often designed in such a manner to make them impossible to refuse
What is ‘my side’ telling?
a declarative/factual statements, that attempt to elicit an account from the other speaker. It is not an interrogative and says nothing about the other person “your line was busy for hours”
Pomerantz - limited access as a fishing device
Repetition
Schegloff explains that the prior sequences are responsible for these explanations
E.g. 9E [Making money::. 10S > Making [money
What is the act of “Confirming allusions”?
You are confirming that you explicitly eluded to it before by means of a repeat as action acts as a confirmation
Action = confirming an allusion by means of > practise = repetition of a prior turn
What is “Troubles-resistance”?
Laughter = can be used as an invitation to laugh. It is an important marker for what is laughable or not.
Gail Jefferson’s work.
What is Repair?
“ha” – fixing speech “ha – fixing them a drink”. The repair is used in order to imply they are acting as a host instead of just ‘having a drink’ which is another action entirely
What are the different types of repair and how many are there?
Self-initiated self repair in own turn (same turn repair). Overwhelming this is the most commonly used repair
Self-initiated at a TRP (transition space repair)
Other-initiated repair, by next turn repair initiation at next turn, of self-repair in the next turn after that (second turn repair). People do not like correcting other people and often just push people on to fix their own speech. Allows for self-correction
Self-initiated in third position in relation to the original turn (third position repair)
Other-initiated in fourth position relative to the original trouble (fourth position repair) (Schegloff; 1992)
Importance of ‘oh’
Can mark a change in conversation. Oh proposes that the information provided is completed. “yes” is an indication that enough information has not yet been provided.
K – to K + change is an indication of a change in the status of knowledge. “change of state token”
E.g. “Nice jewish boy?”
