John Benjamins Publishing Company
Studying interaction in order to cultivate communicative practices
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Karen Tracy
Abstract
Action-implicative discourse analysis (AIDA) is an ethnographically informed discourse-analytic approach that works to provide normative understandings of situated communicative practices that are action-implicative for social life. Extending the logic of grounded practical theory (Craig and Tracy 1995), AIDA develops reconstructed accounts of the communicative problems, interaction strategies, and normative ideals of a practice. We introduce AIDA and illustrate the approach with an example from recent research on school board meetings in an American local community. We compare AIDA with other approaches to language and social interaction, focusing on interactional sociolinguistics (Gumperz) and conversation analysis (Schegloff). We argue that to understand the distinctive character of these approaches requires recognizing each one’s orientation to the discursive context of a particular academic discipline.
Abstract
Action-implicative discourse analysis (AIDA) is an ethnographically informed discourse-analytic approach that works to provide normative understandings of situated communicative practices that are action-implicative for social life. Extending the logic of grounded practical theory (Craig and Tracy 1995), AIDA develops reconstructed accounts of the communicative problems, interaction strategies, and normative ideals of a practice. We introduce AIDA and illustrate the approach with an example from recent research on school board meetings in an American local community. We compare AIDA with other approaches to language and social interaction, focusing on interactional sociolinguistics (Gumperz) and conversation analysis (Schegloff). We argue that to understand the distinctive character of these approaches requires recognizing each one’s orientation to the discursive context of a particular academic discipline.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- New adventures in language and interaction 1
- Interlocutory logic 9
- Beyond symbols 47
- The case for an eclectic approach to discourse-in-interaction 71
- Grammar 99
- Researching intercultural communication 125
- Studying interaction in order to cultivate communicative practices 145
- Healthcare interaction as an expert communicative system 167
- Interacting with difficulty 199
- Ecologies of gesture 223
- The neglected listener 243
- Dialogical dynamics 257
- Author index 273
- Subject index 275
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- New adventures in language and interaction 1
- Interlocutory logic 9
- Beyond symbols 47
- The case for an eclectic approach to discourse-in-interaction 71
- Grammar 99
- Researching intercultural communication 125
- Studying interaction in order to cultivate communicative practices 145
- Healthcare interaction as an expert communicative system 167
- Interacting with difficulty 199
- Ecologies of gesture 223
- The neglected listener 243
- Dialogical dynamics 257
- Author index 273
- Subject index 275
