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The Phono(im)politeness: (Dis)courtesy prosodic marks in Spanish spoken. Their study via oral corpus
2013
En este artículo se intenta mostrar la relevancia de los mecanismos fónicos, y particularmente de la entonación, para la expresión de cortesía o descortesía verbales. La descripción de tal relación se lleva a cabo a partir de una selección de fragmentos de habla que han servido para fundamentar nuestra hipótesis de partida y que proceden de un corpus diverso: por un lado, de conversaciones coloquiales (Briz y Grupo Val.Es.Co, 2002); por otro, de dos series de TV emitidas por la cadena Antena 3 (Manos a la obra, capítulo: "¡Cómo está el patio!" y Doctor Mateo, capítulo: "De cómo Mateo comprende que eso que siente son celos y no indigestión") y, finalmente, otros son ejemplos derivados de inv…
Quality assurance of decision-making in conversations between professionals and non-professionals: identifying the presence of deliberative principles
2012
The ideal of dialogue is at stake in professional conversations. The aim of this study is to develop an instrument that makes it possible to compare principles of deliberation with what actually takes place in professional conversations. The developed instrument is tested on one patient's conversation with his doctor about lifestyle changes, and meetings where pupils with learning disabilities and their parents discuss further schooling with school representatives. Although in need of refinement, the conclusion is that the instrument provides meaningful insight into how much each participant 'contributes' to the decision-making process and 'behaves' during the conversation.
Sensitivity in topic development and meaning making in a process consultation contract meeting
2013
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the discursive practices used when the agenda for a consultation process was negotiated in a contract meeting. The paper illustrates the role of sensitivity in meaning making practices, that is, how displays of sensitivity were intertwined with topic development.Design/methodology/approachThe paper offers an in‐depth analysis of naturally occurring conversation in a meeting between a consultant and two client managers. The audio‐recorded data is analyzed by utilizing methodology introduced and developed in the traditions of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (CA).FindingsThe authors show how both the consultant and the clients displayed…
Hidden agendas : situational tasks, discursive strategies and institutional practices in process consultation
2009
Corrigendum: Elena+ Care for COVID-19, a Pandemic Lifestyle Care Intervention: Intervention Design and Study Protocol
2021
Therapists’ Responses for Enhancing Change Through Dialogue: Dialogical Investigations of Change
2016
The point of view on research represented here is based on a dialogical framework. Our emphasis is on understanding the contribution of the therapists to the process of change. We conceptualize therapeutic conversation as a dialogical activity. In using the research method The Dialogical Investigation of Happenings of Change (DIHC) the focus is on how therapists participate and answer from a specific position of “responsive responsibility.” In this chapter our aim is twofold: (1) to present a method for conducting a dialogical analysis of couple sessions and (2) to track detailed sequences of events of change. To make sense of the details of this process, we use Bakhtinian concepts includin…
Developing and Testing Speaking Skills in Academic Discourse
2014
Teaching speaking is an essential aspect of developing students’ sociolinguistic competence in a foreign language at any level. English studies at the tertiary level offer a variety of courses for practicing speaking and helping students reach the C1 and C2 level in BA and MA studies, respectively. However, it is not only the level that differentiates between BA and MA studies, but also aspects of register and style. Beginning with the subjects generally called Conversation, Speaking, Oral reproduction, Argumentation skills, Debating or Public speaking (BA studies), students gradually advance to Conversation based on academic texts (MA studies). This transition requires students to raise th…
O zadawaniu pytań na lekcji języka polskiego. Studium przypadku
2020
The article presents the results of qualitative and quantitative analysis of questions asked during a single Polish language lesson. It consists of two main parts. The first presents and comments on the results of the teacher’s questions analysis, the second ‒ questions asked by students. The concept of Bogusław Skowronek was used, who distinguished four types of questions in his classification: 1) reassuring-instrumental; 2) substantive; 3) about the meta-didactic function; 4) not related to the classroom situation. The first two categories were specified in more detail by Elizabeth Perrott’s proposition, which distinguishes between guiding questions and questions for clarification among r…
In search of proper pronunciation: students’ practices of soliciting help during read-aloud
2018

 
 
 This ar cle examines Finnish L2 learners’ interactional practices of flagging trouble in pronouncing words when reading aloud texts in English. Using conversation analysis, it describes how students employ three repair initiaon techniques – direct requests, trying out, and aborting the reading – as methods through which they mobilize teachers’ help in the form of a model pronunciation of the target word. By describing the sequential and temporal unfolding of read-aloud, the article presents an empirical way of tracing those classroom practices that students employ to develop their pronunciation skills of English in Finland. CA-based methodology that focuses on the inter…
O pytaniach podczas rozmowy maturalnej z języka polskiego
2019
“Now, let us move to our conversation — please name characteristics of a parable”. On questions students are asked during their high school oral leaving exam in PolishIn the article I present the results of a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 149 questions asked by teachers during 30 high school oral leaving exams in Polish. In this I use the classification formulated by Elizabeth Perrott, who, taking into account Benjamin Bloom’s “taxonomy of educational objectives”, has proposed a division of the questions by the type of thinking process launched during answering, distinguishing lower-level questions recall, understanding, application and higher-level questions analysis, synthesis …