Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2101298
M. Pino
ABSTRACT This article investigates the action formation of complaints about absent parties—asking what makes them recognizable as such. It shows that recipient responses display their understanding that complaints comprise two components: a display of hurt (related to the impact of the complained-of events) and a blaming (attributing responsibility to an absent party). The setting, a bereavement support group in the UK, is perspicuous for this investigation because the group facilitators respond to the clients’ complaints by decoupling their constituent components, validating the hurt while avoiding affiliating with the blaming embodied in them. This makes visible these complaint-recipients’ distinctive orientations to the two components of complaints. The article advances understandings of the action formation of complaints; it documents practices whereby service providers can show compassion toward the hurt embodied in clients’ complaints; and it shows how principles of bereavement support are implemented in face-to-face interactions. The participants speak British English.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2101293
Shimako Iwasaki, M. Bartlett, Louisa Willoughby, Howard Manns
ABSTRACT This article explores how deafblind Australian Sign Language (Auslan) users, who communicate through an alternative range of modalities including tactile (hands) and kinetic (body movement) inputs, manage turn transitions. Studies of deafblind communication have typically employed a signal-based approach. In contrast, this article applies broader Conversational Analysis (CA) frameworks, which have been developed based on interlocutors who primarily rely on auditory-vocal and visual resources but have been productively applied to a range of languages, participants, and settings. Through fine-grained analyses of a single case study, this article examines how tactile Auslan signers orient to the relevance of turn transitions at possible completion points. The research illuminates the mechanics of how tactile Auslan signers negotiate turns and advances our understanding of both the analytical potentials of CA and the ways particular deafblind Auslan signers coordinate sequences, actions, and multimodalities in their interactional choreography. Data are in tactile Auslan.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2067426
Galina B. Bolden, A. Hepburn, J. Potter, Kaicheng Zhan, Wan Wei, Song Hee Park, Aleksandr Shirokov, Hee Chung Chun, Aleksandra Kurlenkova, Dana Licciardello, Marissa Caldwell, J. Mandelbaum, L. Mikesell
ABSTRACT When repairing a problem in their talk, speakers sometimes do more than simply correct an error, extending the self-correction segment to comment on, repeat, apologize, and/or reject the error. We call this “over-exposed self-correction.” In over-exposing the error, speakers may manage (and reflexively construct) a range of attributional troubles that it has raised. We discuss how over-exposed self-correction can be used to: (a) remediate errors that might suggest the speaker’s incompetence; and (b) redress errors that may be heard as revealing relational “evils” (implicating inadequate other-attentiveness) or societal “evils” (conveying problematic social attitudes and prejudices). The article thus shows how conversation analytic work on repair can provide a platform for studying the emergence and management of socially and relationally charged issues in interaction. The data come from a diverse corpus of talk-in-interaction in American, British, and Australian English.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2075641
Isobel Ross, M. Stubbe
ABSTRACT Although information provision is a prerequisite of informed decision making in surgical consultations, research has shown that patients’ understanding of such information is often limited. We use conversation analysis to illustrate patients’ and surgeons’ management of interactivity, intersubjectivity, and progressivity during information provision, which frequently takes the form of extended tellings. In the midtelling phase of extended tellings, the surgeon is the primary speaker and patients orient to the temporary suspension of the usual turn-taking system. On the rare occasions that patients do take the floor midtelling, it is overwhelmingly following surgeons’ self-repeats-as-unit-ends, which include gist formulations. We argue that surgeons’ self-repeats-as-unit-ends are a practice for encouraging interactivity during extended tellings and as a consequence for facilitating shared understanding of decision-relevant information. Data are in English.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2067425
Anna-Kaisa Jokipohja, Niina Lilja
ABSTRACT This article uses multimodal CA to analyze depictive hand gestures that are used to check understanding of the co-participant’s preceding action. Drawing on data from cooking and farming interactions, the analysis scrutinizes how depictive gestures come to be treated as other-initiations of repair. The analysis shows that relevant factors in this are: (a) the gesture’s design, i.e., its form and movement in relation to the material ecology of the interaction, including relevant objects; (b) the gesture’s position and timing in the unfolding sequence; (c) the embodied participation framework, including the body positions and gaze patterns of all participants; and (d) the participants’ shared knowledge and understanding of the broader activity context, including their familiarity with the ingredients and dishes in-the-making. The analysis contributes to research on gestural depiction in human meaning making and to the study of embodiment in repair organization. The data are in Finnish with English translations.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2067436
Jeffrey D. Robinson, Christoph Rühlemann, Daniel Taylor Rodriguez
ABSTRACT Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson argued that the rules for turn taking for conversation involve a confluence of pressures that bias turn size toward single turn constructional units (TCUs), which leads to an empirical prediction that turns are more likely to be composed of single (vs. multiple) TCUs. We directly test and confirm this “single-TCU bias” by using conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, and Bayesian statistics to assess the conversational subcorpus of the British National Corpus (BNC-C), which contains 475,509 turns of talk. Our results confirm this bias, showing that 67% of turns are composed of single TCUs; we discuss why this estimate is conservative. The mean word length for single-TCU turns was 4.5 (SD = 3.4), compared to 19.9 (SD = 22.6) for multi-TCU turns. Our findings reinforce the ideas that the natural habitat for an accountable social action is the single TCU (vs. the turn), and that interaction is fundamentally organized (i.e., both produced and understood) on an action-by-action basis, which is a TCU-by-TCU basis. Data are in British English.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2067424
E. Holt
ABSTRACT Conversation analysis is used in investigating the interactional uses of loosely portrayed speech in interaction. This device combines elements of direct and indirect portrayal, conveying some fidelity to an original while, at the same time, indicating that it is not verbatim enactment of specific utterances. The instances in the current collection are in English, deriving from informal interaction, mainly telephone calls recorded in the UK and USA. They occur in complaints about a third party, recurrently by portraying the reported speaker’s criticisms of the current speaker. The reported speaker is depicted as making multiple criticisms, which adds to the reprehensible nature of their actions. By constructing the reported speaker’s actions, and, at the same time, indicating the stance of the current speaker toward them, the complained-about speaker’s behavior is portrayed as infringing the moral order and therefore the complaint as legitimate. Data are in British and American English.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2075652
Ruey-Ying Liu
ABSTRACT When adults select young children to answer questions, children’s delays and troubles in responding may lead to a tension between child participation and the preference for progressivity that normally applies to conversations among adults. Drawing on everyday adult-child conversational data, this study focuses on question-answer sequences in which the selected child does not respond in a timely or adequate manner and examines how co-present, nonselected adults balance between progressivity and the need to facilitate child participation. The analysis shows that adults tend to manage this balance by prioritizing child participation over progressivity, thereby socializing children to achieve interactional autonomy. This ordering of preferences in adult-child interaction is in contrast with previous findings in adult conversation. This study provides empirical evidence of the ways adults prioritize child participation and socialize children into active responsive participation in conversation. Data are in Mandarin and English.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2026169
M. Cantarutti
ABSTRACT Through troubles-talk, participants disclose and negatively assess unfortunate past or habitual happenings and offenses, and these are often vividly staged in the here and now by temporarily “doing being” past Self or others, what we call animation. In this study, we show how by animating their own affective reactions toward the recounted experiences, tellers cast themselves as victims and their recipients as witnesses. More importantly, we demonstrate how animation is also a relevant practice for recipients, who in a contiguous position often offer a responsive co-animation of the same figure, validating and amplifying their teller’s affective displays, turning the experience into a common cause. This study contributes further to our understanding of empathic responses in troubles-talk in English by inscribing co-animation as a previously undescribed alternative at the response slot that allows recipients to temporarily position themselves “into the moment” as co-victims, co-experiencers, and co-sanctioners. Data are in English.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2026170
Shuya Kushida, Makoto Hayashi
ABSTRACT This study explores how the lexical hesitator koo is used to initiate or continue word searches in Japanese talk-in-interaction. The word koo (“like this,” “in this manner”) is canonically used as a proximal demonstrative adverb of manner, often accompanied by a depicting gesture. We argue that because of its continuity with the canonical use, the hesitator koo (a) projects a descriptive term as a possible search outcome, and (b) indicates difficulty in describing in words what the speaker wants to say. In addition to initiating or continuing a search, the hesitator koo provides information about the type and nature of the resolution of search, thereby enhancing the intersubjectivity of the search process. This study contributes to our understanding of the organization of self-initiated same-turn repair by identifying the function of a particular lingistic resource used for it. Data are in Japanese with English translation.
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