As students are participating in group work in writing classes, what are they talking about and how is their interaction organized? This study analyzes the structures of talk and embodied interaction in student group work in university writing classes...
Keywords: group work, Interaction, writing, conversation analysis, institutional talk, gesture
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThis paper demonstrates how a call-on-hold is used to accomplish some delicate interactional work involving a talk-show host, a co-host, and a guest expert...
Keywords: telephone calls, conversation analysis, talk shows
03/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterPrevious research on oppositional discourse has pointed out the need in the turn-by-turn analysis of conflict and disagreements...
Keywords: disagreement strategies, Greek oppositional discourse, intergenerational conflict, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, interview-narratives
03/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThe author analyzes how participants of Seventh-Day Adventist Bible study describe their experience as similar to that of the characters of the Bible stories they are reading...
Keywords: conversation analysis, descriptions, experience, institutional interaction, religion
05/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterDrawing from a corpus of naturalistic videotaped data documenting everyday activities of 32 middle-class dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California, this article explores children's bedtime routines as an interactional matrix for carrying out culturally salient relational work, illustrating how family members co-participate in a ‘discourse of anticipation’ that prepares for—yet simultaneously forestalls—the moment of bedtime separation...
Keywords: children, closing routines, conversation analysis, family communication, language socialization, relational work
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterContemporary democratic politics involves, not just constitutions, elections, and representative bodies, but complex processes of more direct consultation with the public...
Keywords: focus groups, public consultation, conversation analysis, questions, formulations
01/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterHutchby (1995: 221) calls advice giving ‘an activity which assumes or establishes an asymmetry between the participants’...
Keywords: conversation analysis, preference organization, counseling, advice receiving, peer tutoring, knowledge asymmetries
01/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThis study examines temporal organization for interaction in a specific work setting: the airline cockpit...
Keywords: aviation, conversation analysis, institutional talk, overlap, temporal organization, turn taking
03/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterMeetings are a place where shared understanding is paramount and must be done in an economical manner in line with the goals of most institutional interactions...
Keywords: conversation analysis, meetings talk, formulations, candidate pre-closings, topic transition, decision-making
05/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter