Conversation analysis and the structures of interaction Flashcards

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Ethnomethodology

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the study of how social order is produced in and through processes of social interaction

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takes apparently mundane and unremarkable spoken interactions and ﬁnds intricate patterning in the way they are organizedb

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its patterns and structures result from what people do as they go along rather than from their being compelled to follow a course of action that has been determined in advance.

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1. speakers are aware that a turn consists of one or more (but not fewer) ‘turn constructional units’. 2. there is an ordered set of rules for the allocation of the next turn

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the content of what is said, the prosodic and grammatical structure of the speech, and aspects of nonverbal behaviour such as the direction of the speaker’s gaze.

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F1 one speaker speaks at a time | F2 simultaneous speech

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At least two speakers habitually speak at a time

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A pair of utterances in which the second is functional dependent on the first

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Acceptance to a proposal. It is typically performed without hesitation or elaboration

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Refusal. Usually hesitant about coming to the point and often the refusal is elaborated (ex, giving a reason for the refusal)

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First part of telephone talk

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The second part of telephone talk

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a form which constrains the recipient to produce a particular answer

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For any turn at talk, at the first possible completion, a b c current speaker may select next, next speaker may self-select, current speaker may continue. If 1c occurs, the rules are re-applied at the next possible completion.

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The more that is known about a language the more we can find out about it.

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when continued investigations produce several competing theories, and we have to find out which one is right

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they have no control over their data

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the act of making the original texts available for the inspection of others who may have other biases and prejudices

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every sound change, inasmuch as it occurs mechanically, takes place according to laws that admit no exception. That is, the direction of the sound shift is always the same for all the members of a linguistic community except where a split into dialects occurs; and all words in which the sound subjected to the change appears in the same relationship are affected by the change without exception. (Osthoff & Brugmann 1878)

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linguistic processes taking place around us are the same as those that have operated to produce the historical record.

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the value of new data for confirming and interpreting old data is directly proportional to the differences in the methods used to gather it

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When speakers of a subordinate dialect are asked direct questions about their language, their answers will shift in an irregular manner toward [or away from] the superordinate dialect

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there are no single-style speakers.

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Styles can be ordered along a single dimension, measured by the amount of attention paid to speech.

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that the style which is most regular in its structure and in its relation to the evolution of the language is the vernacular, in which the minimum attention is paid to speech.

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Many speak but few elicit

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states that any systematic observation a formal context in which more than the minimum attention is paid

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To obtain the data most important for linguistic theory, we have to observe how people speak when they are not being observed

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1. Death and they danger of death 2. Sex and all of the machinery for interaction between the sexes 3. ) moral indignation