Studying everyday conversation
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Aino Koivisto
Abstract
Conversation Analysis (CA) is interested in the orderliness of our everyday communication and the social practices we engage in when trying to achieve various interactional goals. This article provides a brief overview of CA as a method and some aspects of everyday conversation from the CA perspective. As an example, the paper discusses the social action of delivering news and informings and responses to those actions in Finnish telephone conversations. It will be shown that telling a piece of news is an interactional process where the positioning of the informing and the way it is received by the recipient play a significant role in the final outcome of a news delivery sequence (Maynard 2003). Furthermore, the telephone as a medium has an impact on when and how a piece of news is delivered and how it is received.
Abstract
Conversation Analysis (CA) is interested in the orderliness of our everyday communication and the social practices we engage in when trying to achieve various interactional goals. This article provides a brief overview of CA as a method and some aspects of everyday conversation from the CA perspective. As an example, the paper discusses the social action of delivering news and informings and responses to those actions in Finnish telephone conversations. It will be shown that telling a piece of news is an interactional process where the positioning of the informing and the way it is received by the recipient play a significant role in the final outcome of a news delivery sequence (Maynard 2003). Furthermore, the telephone as a medium has an impact on when and how a piece of news is delivered and how it is received.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Creating characters through dialogue
- Pragmatic stylistics and dramatic dialogue 19
- Dialogue and character in 21st century TV drama 37
- Look who’s talking 55
- All talk 77
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Part II. Involvement, audience design and social interaction
- Studying everyday conversation 95
- Dialogic interactions on radio 117
- Dialogism in journalistic discourse 137
- Friends and followers ‘in the know’ 155
- Dialogue with computers 179
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Part III. Playfulness and narrative functions of dialogue
- Dialogue in Audiophonic Fiction 205
- Dialogue in comics 225
- Dialogue in video games 251
- Dialogue and interaction in role-playing games 271
- Index 291
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Creating characters through dialogue
- Pragmatic stylistics and dramatic dialogue 19
- Dialogue and character in 21st century TV drama 37
- Look who’s talking 55
- All talk 77
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Part II. Involvement, audience design and social interaction
- Studying everyday conversation 95
- Dialogic interactions on radio 117
- Dialogism in journalistic discourse 137
- Friends and followers ‘in the know’ 155
- Dialogue with computers 179
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Part III. Playfulness and narrative functions of dialogue
- Dialogue in Audiophonic Fiction 205
- Dialogue in comics 225
- Dialogue in video games 251
- Dialogue and interaction in role-playing games 271
- Index 291
