Conversation Analysis

by Markee; Numa

• ISBN13: 9780805820003
• ISBN10: 0805820000
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its demonstrations of how micro-moments of socially distributed cognition instantiated in conversational behavior contribute to observable changes in the participants' states of knowing and using a new language. This volume describes the methodology in detail, discusses its relevance for current theories of SLA, and uses two extended examples of conversational analysis to show how learners succeed or fail at the job of learning the meaning of a word or phrase in conversational context. This book is one of several in LEA's Second Language Acquisition Research Series dealing with specific data collection methods or instruments. Each of these monographs addresses the kinds of research questions for which the method/instrument is best suited, its underlying assumptions, a characterization of the method/instrument and extended description of its use and problems associated with its use. For more information about these volumes, please visit LEA's Web site at www.erlbaum.com

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
List of abbreviations	xv
PART I: Issues and Definitions	1	(62)
Overview of SLA Studies	3	(20)
Introduction	3	(2)
Toward a Definition of SLA Studies	5	(1)
The Discourse Hypothesis	5	(2)
The Social Interaction Hypothesis	7	(8)
The Interactionist Hypothesis	15	(7)
Conclusion	22	(1)
Conversation Analysis: A Resource for Reconceptualizing SLA Studies	23	(27)
Introduction	23	(1)
Toward a Definition of CA	23	(3)
CA: Epistemological and Methodological Considerations	26	(4)
Some Potential Objections to the Use of CA as a Methodological Tool For SLA Studies	30	(3)
Respecifying SLA studies	33	(11)
Conclusion	44	(6)
Doing Conversation Analysis: Practical Issues in Recording, Transcribing and Analyzing Data	50	(13)
Introduction	50	(1)
Recording Data	50	(2)
Transcribing Data	52	(7)
Analyzing Data	59	(2)
Conclusion	61	(2)
PART II: Locating Interactional Competence	63	(52)
Sequential Organization in Different Speech Exchange Systems	64	(18)
Introduction	64	(1)
Interactional Competence	64	(13)
Summary	77	(1)
Conclusion	77	(5)
Turn-Taking In Different Speech Exchange Systems	82	(17)
Introduction	82	(1)
Toward a Conversation Analytic Definition of Turns	82	(2)
Turn-Taking: A Resource for SLA	84	(3)
Speech Exchange Systems: An Overview	87	(1)
Turn-Taking Practices in Equal Power Speech Exchange Systems	88	(4)
Turn-Taking Practices in Unequal Power Speech Exchange Systems	92	(5)
Conclusion	97	(2)
Repair In Different Speech Exchange Systems	99	(16)
Introduction	99	(1)
The Organization of Repair: A Social Psychological Model	100	(1)
The Organization of Repair in Equal Power Speech Exchange Systems: A Conversation Analytic Model	101	(8)
The Organization of Repair in Unequal Power Speech Exchange Systems	109	(3)
Conclusion	112	(3)
PART III: Demonstrating Conversation Analysis	115	(52)
``Coral'': A Case of Comprehended Input That Leads to Understanding and Learning	117	(24)
Introduction	117	(2)
The Database	119	(1)
Data Collection Procedures	120	(1)
The Tasks	121	(1)
A Definition of Spoken Definitions	121	(1)
Procedures Used to Identify the Conversational Structure of Spoken Definitions	122	(4)
Conversation Analysis	126	(7)
Connecting CA with Broader Issues In SLA Studies	133	(3)
Conclusion	136	(5)
``We Cannot Get By Auschwitz'': A Case of ``Comprehended'' Input That Does Not Lead To Understanding and Learning	141	(26)
Introduction	141	(1)
The Participants and the Tasks	142	(2)
The Data	144	(1)
Conversation Analysis	145	(16)
Connecting CA with Broader Issues In SLA Studies	161	(4)
Conclusions	165	(2)
Appendix A: Transcription Conventions	167	(2)
Appendix B: ``Coral'' Collection	169	(4)
Appendix C: ``We Cannot Get By Auschwitz'' Collection	173	(10)
References	183	(20)
Author Index	203	(4)
Subject Index	207