Turn initiators in professional encounters
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Fiona Farr
Abstract
This paper investigates some of the pragmatic considerations behind the use of turn initiators within one specific Irish-English setting, that of teacher education. During the course of their studies, student teachers have reason, and are often obliged, to engage with professionals and peers as they are initiated into their new community of practice (CoP) (Lave and Wenger 1991). Under models of social constructivism (Vygotsky 1978) and progressive education, this engagement has been increasingly conducted through the mode of spoken language: face-to-face, and more recently, computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Hanson-Smith 2006). This chapter examines pragmatic turn initiators in a Teacher Education Discourse (TED) Corpus, consisting of spoken and online language data from MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) students in an Irish university context. The variables of speaker relationship, mode of communication and task orientation are explored to determine their influence on the pragmatic functions at the beginning of speaker turns.
Abstract
This paper investigates some of the pragmatic considerations behind the use of turn initiators within one specific Irish-English setting, that of teacher education. During the course of their studies, student teachers have reason, and are often obliged, to engage with professionals and peers as they are initiated into their new community of practice (CoP) (Lave and Wenger 1991). Under models of social constructivism (Vygotsky 1978) and progressive education, this engagement has been increasingly conducted through the mode of spoken language: face-to-face, and more recently, computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Hanson-Smith 2006). This chapter examines pragmatic turn initiators in a Teacher Education Discourse (TED) Corpus, consisting of spoken and online language data from MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) students in an Irish university context. The variables of speaker relationship, mode of communication and task orientation are explored to determine their influence on the pragmatic functions at the beginning of speaker turns.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- The Pragmatics of Irish English and Irish 17
- “I always think of people here, you know, saying ‘like’ after every sentence” 37
- A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish English 65
- Kind of and sort of 89
- A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British English 114
- “Actually, it’s unfair to say that I was throwing stones” 135
- “’Tis mad, yeah” 156
- Turn initiators in professional encounters 176
- “And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it?” 203
- “Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast” 229
- Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring 248
- “Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections” 270
- Blathering Beauties 292
- Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland 318
- “Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn’t that big into school, you know” 348
- “There’s, like, total silence again, roysh, and no one says anything” 370
- Now in the speech of newcomers to Ireland 390
- The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speech 408
- Name index 433
- Subject index 437
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- The Pragmatics of Irish English and Irish 17
- “I always think of people here, you know, saying ‘like’ after every sentence” 37
- A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish English 65
- Kind of and sort of 89
- A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British English 114
- “Actually, it’s unfair to say that I was throwing stones” 135
- “’Tis mad, yeah” 156
- Turn initiators in professional encounters 176
- “And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it?” 203
- “Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast” 229
- Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring 248
- “Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections” 270
- Blathering Beauties 292
- Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland 318
- “Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn’t that big into school, you know” 348
- “There’s, like, total silence again, roysh, and no one says anything” 370
- Now in the speech of newcomers to Ireland 390
- The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speech 408
- Name index 433
- Subject index 437
