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Chapter 7. Doing conversation analysis

Investigating Avoidance Strategy

Abstract

Avoidance is one of the oldest strategies identified in cognitive second language acquisition. Since participants are hiding that they are avoiding using a particular item of language, behavioral methodologies that normally do not use introspection might seem ill-equipped to identify dissimulation. However (based on Markee, 2011), I show here how avoidance can be respecified and productively re-analyzed by using a longitudinal CA methodology (see Markee, 2008) to trace how: (1) ethnographic data that are “talked into relevance” by participants can be used to demonstrate how avoidance is verbally achieved in real time over time; and (2) based on feedback from an anonymous reviewer, how CA methods can also identify how different participants can simultaneously pursue conflicting agendas.

Abstract

Avoidance is one of the oldest strategies identified in cognitive second language acquisition. Since participants are hiding that they are avoiding using a particular item of language, behavioral methodologies that normally do not use introspection might seem ill-equipped to identify dissimulation. However (based on Markee, 2011), I show here how avoidance can be respecified and productively re-analyzed by using a longitudinal CA methodology (see Markee, 2008) to trace how: (1) ethnographic data that are “talked into relevance” by participants can be used to demonstrate how avoidance is verbally achieved in real time over time; and (2) based on feedback from an anonymous reviewer, how CA methods can also identify how different participants can simultaneously pursue conflicting agendas.

Chapters in this book

  1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 2. The Multiperspectival Approach to Applied Linguistic research 9
  5. Chapter 3. Implementing the Multiperspectival Approach (MPA) 30
  6. Chapter 4. Multimodality 49
  7. Chapter 5. Applying multimodal analysis 68
  8. Chapter 6. Conversation analysis 83
  9. Chapter 7. Doing conversation analysis 111
  10. Chapter 8. Grounded Theory 127
  11. Chapter 9. Applications of Grounded Theory in the field of Extensive Reading 149
  12. Chapter 10. Phenomenology 162
  13. Chapter 11. Phenomenology 180
  14. Chapter 12. Narrative inquiry 191
  15. Chapter 13. Narrative inquiry 206
  16. Chapter 14. Repertory grids 224
  17. Chapter 15. Repertory grids 246
  18. Chapter 16. Challenges and contributions of less frequently used methodologies 264
  19. Index 273
Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics
This chapter is in the book Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics
https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.6.07mar

Chapters in this book

  1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 2. The Multiperspectival Approach to Applied Linguistic research 9
  5. Chapter 3. Implementing the Multiperspectival Approach (MPA) 30
  6. Chapter 4. Multimodality 49
  7. Chapter 5. Applying multimodal analysis 68
  8. Chapter 6. Conversation analysis 83
  9. Chapter 7. Doing conversation analysis 111
  10. Chapter 8. Grounded Theory 127
  11. Chapter 9. Applications of Grounded Theory in the field of Extensive Reading 149
  12. Chapter 10. Phenomenology 162
  13. Chapter 11. Phenomenology 180
  14. Chapter 12. Narrative inquiry 191
  15. Chapter 13. Narrative inquiry 206
  16. Chapter 14. Repertory grids 224
  17. Chapter 15. Repertory grids 246
  18. Chapter 16. Challenges and contributions of less frequently used methodologies 264
  19. Index 273
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