2. Conversation Analysis
•Conversation:
• An exchange of thoughts and ideas
between two or more people.
• It occurs when people cooperate
with each other in order to
introduce an sustain a single
focus of attention by taking turns
with each other.
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4. Ethno- methodology- is the
study of methods people use for
understanding and producing the
social order in which they live.
1.Historical foundations
Historical Foundations
Harold Garfinkel's idea on social norms as guiding our actions but also as
resources for them and interest in commonsense knowledge and ethnomethods.
Erving Goffman's idea of social interaction as an autonomous entity worthy of
investigation.
Harvey Sacks suggests a method for systematic exploration of social interaction.
• How you do teaching, how you do medical expertise, how you do empathy in concert
with other participants of a situation.
• Looking for "Why this now" and presuming "Order at all points". Example "At first I
thought — then I realized"
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6. Conversation analysis is : "an approach
within the social sciences that aims to
describe, analyze and understand talk as
a basic and constitutive feature of
human life...
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13. 2. If no other speaker self-selects to take the
role, the current speaker may then continue to
talk again.
Example
• Venus: Which is the correct
direction to go, left or right?
• Winnie, Joanna, Hailer (Silence)
• Venus: No one knows?
• Venus: Ok, turn right then. ??
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23. TURN DESIGN
• The Aspects Of Grammar Or The Way In Which A Turn At Talk, Or
A Turn Constructional Unit, Is Put Together.
• It can be considered as something that
is constructed in response to the contingencies of the local
meaning and social requirements of the emerging talk.
• It is about the relationship between form and
function: the morphosyntax and lexis of an utterance,
and the action it is designed to achieve
