Conversation analysis(CA) has come to be regarded as focusing primarily on turn-taking,on the way speakers design,hold and extend their turns at talk;how they select next speakers;how others know when it is their turn...Conversation analysis(CA) has come to be regarded as focusing primarily on turn-taking,on the way speakers design,hold and extend their turns at talk;how they select next speakers;how others know when it is their turn to speak;how orderly transition from one turn to the next is managed and how turns collide.The argument in this paper is that this research focus is waning,and that in its place a new direction is emerging(or perhaps reemerging) -the investigation of how social actions are conducted through language.This research direction connects with an area that is quite familiar in linguistic pragmatics,that of speech act analysis(Austin,Searle).But CA's approach is quite distinctive,exploring as it does the systematic basis for the selection of one from among the alternative constructions or formats for doing certain actions.This is illustrated through recent studies of offering and requesting,with some further observations of negatively formatted interrogatives used to make proposals.These studies show that speakers select between the alternative available forms on the basis of the sequential position in which the speaker is conducting that action.展开更多
This paper discusses some key concepts in Conversation Analysis （CA）. Using the transcription symbols mainly developed by Jefferson （1974）, the author transcribes an authentic spoken text to further illustrate to ...This paper discusses some key concepts in Conversation Analysis （CA）. Using the transcription symbols mainly developed by Jefferson （1974）, the author transcribes an authentic spoken text to further illustrate to the reader how the analysis of the organization of a conversation or talk-in-action could be approached. The paper concludes that as key concepts in CA make possible the micro-level analysis of a conversation, classroom activities deriving from CA can highlight the micro-interactional level of a talk and teachers are able to explore language performance from a microanalytic perspective.展开更多
文摘Conversation analysis(CA) has come to be regarded as focusing primarily on turn-taking,on the way speakers design,hold and extend their turns at talk;how they select next speakers;how others know when it is their turn to speak;how orderly transition from one turn to the next is managed and how turns collide.The argument in this paper is that this research focus is waning,and that in its place a new direction is emerging(or perhaps reemerging) -the investigation of how social actions are conducted through language.This research direction connects with an area that is quite familiar in linguistic pragmatics,that of speech act analysis(Austin,Searle).But CA's approach is quite distinctive,exploring as it does the systematic basis for the selection of one from among the alternative constructions or formats for doing certain actions.This is illustrated through recent studies of offering and requesting,with some further observations of negatively formatted interrogatives used to make proposals.These studies show that speakers select between the alternative available forms on the basis of the sequential position in which the speaker is conducting that action.
文摘This paper discusses some key concepts in Conversation Analysis （CA）. Using the transcription symbols mainly developed by Jefferson （1974）, the author transcribes an authentic spoken text to further illustrate to the reader how the analysis of the organization of a conversation or talk-in-action could be approached. The paper concludes that as key concepts in CA make possible the micro-level analysis of a conversation, classroom activities deriving from CA can highlight the micro-interactional level of a talk and teachers are able to explore language performance from a microanalytic perspective.
