Enabling human conduct : studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff / edited by Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner, John Heritage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raymond, Geoffrey, editor.

Lerner, Gene H., editor.

Heritage, John, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 0922-842X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Conversation analysis--Social aspects.

Conversation analysis--Cross-cultural studies.

Social interaction.

Human communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

This collection offers a multifaceted view of the life, research and impact of Emanuel A. Schegloff, the co-originator, with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, of Conversation Analysis (or CA), and its leading contemporary authority. The first section introduces Schegloff’s life and work, and, using a series of interviews with him, provides a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field’s major aims and achievements. Next many of the world’s leading researchers from various disciplines – including Communication, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, and Sociology – build on Schegloff’s foundational research, analyzing encounters from everyday and institutional settings (conducted in English, German, Korean, Mandarin, and Russian) to explicate how conversation and other conduct in interaction are organized. The final section of the book includes reflections on Schegloff’s contributions by some of his major interlocutors and Schegloff’s response to them.

Contents:

Cover Page

Enabling Human Conduct

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Schegloff and the founding of a discovering discipline

1. Introduction

2. Getting to know CA - and Manny

3. Schegloff and the foundations of conversation analysis

4. How conversation works: Investigations in Honor of Manny Schegloff

5. Manny Schegloff: A few concluding remarks

References

A discussion with Emanuel A. Schegloff

Reference

A discussion with Emanuel A. Schegloff, Part 2

Inferring the purpose of a prior query and responding accordingly

2. Data and methods

3. Analysis

3.1 Sequence type 1: Inferred purpose of a yes/no or fixed choice question is to seek an explanation

3.2 Sequence Type 2: Inferred purpose of a request for confirmation is seeking response to an associated query

3.3 Sequence Type 3: Inferred purpose of an open query is seeking information about a specific matter

4. Discussion

Responses to wh-question challenges

1.1 Reversed polarity questions

1.2 Type-conforming and non-conforming responses

2. No sequentially appropriate slot for response

3. Non-conforming responses that align with the challenge

3.1 Accepting the challenge

3.2 Agreeing with the Challenge

3.3 Agreeing with a challenge to a non-present party

3.4 Treating the Question as Unanswerable

4. Rejecting the challenge with type-conforming responses

4.1 Rejecting the challenge by answering the question

4.2 Backing Down

5. Type-Conforming Joke Response

6. Summary and Conclusion

Extended responding

2. Grantings and fulfillments of a request

3. Data

4. Customer service: The institutional context of requests and responses in calls for airline reservations.

5. Overview: A request-response sequence

6. Extended responding

6.1 Co-construction and initiative

7. Summary

Appendix

Abbreviations

Accepting remote proposals

2. Remote proposals

4. The social and syntactic design of remote proposals

5. Analysis

6. Concluding Remarks

Interactional uses of acknowledgment tokens

2. Analysis

3. Conclusion

Selection principles of other-initiated repair turn formats

2. Characteristics of PQs

3. Selection principles of OIR formats

4. Theoretical implications

Referring to persons

2. Linguistically gendered terms can be chosen without making gender relevant to the action in which participants are engaged

3. Linguistically gendered terms can be used as a resource for making gender relevant - but the relevance of gender can be negotiated and contested

4. Gender is invoked or disattended over the course of an interaction in the interests of local interactional goals.

Out of context

Preamble

2. Context, identities and forms of talk

3. On failing to recognise the voice of an intimate

4. Workplace calls

5. Greetings exchanges

6. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Opening up closings in Russian

2. Tacit and explicit practices for moving into closings

3. Sequential placement of closing initiations

3.1 Initiating closings tacitly in closing-implicative environments

3.2 Designedly monotopical calls

3.3 "Designedly last" topics

3.4 Closing a "possibly last" topic

3.5 Expanded pre-closing sequences

4. Environments for explicit initiation of closings.

4.1 Non-interruptive uses of explicit closings

5. Conclusions

Appendix: Transcription conventions for Russian

Particles and Epistemics

2. Oh in Anglo-American English

3. Initial Ou in Mandarin Chinese

4. Final A in Mandarin Chinese

5. The Convergences

5.1 Responding to a question while indexing the question's inappositeness or redundancy

5.2 Oh-prefaced and a-finalized responses as escalated disagreement

5.3 Oh-prefaced and a-finalized responses as independently arrived at

6. Concluding discussion

On the practical re-intentionalization of body behavior

2. On the emergent structuring of human conduct

3. Adjusting actions

3.1 Adjusting turn construction

3.2 Adjusting hand gestures

3.3 Adjusting Manual Action

4. Action pivoting

4.1 Turn-constructional pivots

4.2 Gestural pivots

4.3 Manual action pivots

5. Concluding remarks

5.1 "One more thing": Auto-involvement as a ready-made pivoting resource

What a difference forty years make

2. The beginning stage: Casual observation about small-scale linguistic phenomena

2.1 Silence

2.2 Timing in sounds, syllables, and words

2.3 Non-lexical tokens

2.4 Reference and deixis

3. The middle stage: Serious engagement with large-scale linguistic phenomena

3.1 Sentences

3.2 Questions

3.3 Speech acts

3.4 Coherence

3.5 Prosody

4. The latest stage: Full-blown linguistic theorizing

4.1 Language in its natural habitat

4.2 Positionally sensitive grammars

5. Conclusion

Living with Manny's dangerous idea

1. Universal acid

2. Some working presumptions about the interplay between language, culture and interaction.

3. Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea - the ramifications of kinship

4. A mysterious genre of joke

5. Culture and naming: The interplay between cultural systems and interactional systematics

6. Models for the interaction of language, culture and interaction

7. Conclusion

Reply to Levinson

Subject Index

Name Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

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