READING WORKSHOP "CONVERSATION AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS"

READING WORKSHOP BASED ON THE READING “CONVERSATION ANALYSIS” LIDDICOAT A. J, (2007)

11.   What are some of the key issues at the time of stablishing the distinction between conversation and conversation analysis? 

      Conversation is used as a tool by human beings to interact with others, is a progression of exchanges, not only in terms of linguistic codes but also taking into account some paralinguistic signs present in conversation. Conversation analysis goes beyond; it studies what happens in social interaction and talk as a way to understand human beings in different contexts.it sees turn by turn how interaction is constructed and reconstructed by participants.

22.     How can you explain the principle of orderliness as something manifested both in social life and in interaction?

      Orderliness is manifested both, in social life and interaction, participants achieve it while turn taking talk, so it is not only a matter of conversation itself as a communication tool, but also, about hoe human beings are socially organized.

33.   A recurrent issue addressed in ethnomethodology and CA, in particular, is the notion of social action. How can you explain this notion and its importance in the study of talk and interaction? 

      Human beings are daily involved in social actions, being those understood as an individual or group behavior that involves interaction. Therefore, to study talk it is because must be a social action that involves speaking and interaction among people.

44.   A fundamental idea in CA was introduced by Sacks, Schegloff and Jeferson (1974) as recipient design. Can you briefly explain this notion and its importance in the study of talk in interaction?  Recipient design is a salient feature of talk and the organization of talk and it is important because through this, participants design their talk to be understood in terms of the knowledge participant assume they share and it is also a resource listeners can use in interpreting talk. In other words, it allow participants to achieve order in a conversation and order in social interaction.

55.    Some other key notions in the study of talk in interaction are addressed from the perspective of mundane and institutional talk. Did you get a clear distinction?

      Mundane refers to informal talk in every social setting, it is not enclosed to any specific contexts or to accomplishments of pre- stablished tasks. On the other hand, institutional talk is institutionally embedded and restricted to the achievement of predefined goals. Institutions are mostly related to building like schools, hospitals, courts. Etc.

66.  Context is certainly an important issue in the study of talk in interaction. Heritage (1984b) explored the role of context in understanding the social function of talk. He then identified two of them named context-shaped and context renewing. Can you provide some basic explanation about them?

      Context shaped is where what the participant say is shaped by the context in which it is created. Moreover, in context renewing, each turn and talk is the response to some previous talk. Context is dynamic, is renewing at each point in the talk.

77.  How can you explain this statement “conversation analysis is analysis of real world, situated contextualized talk”? 

      To develop conversation analysis analysts must have some data; besides data have to be actual talk, only natural instances of talk can provide analysts to examine what speakers actually do when speaking.

88.   Some other fundamental issues with regard to CA states that conversation analysis tends to proceed using unmotivated looking. Can you provide some understandings for the comprehension of the statement? 

      It means taking data and listen to it repeatedly in order to see what is going on in it, rather than searching for a particular patter, in simple words,  listen over and over again and lets data talks.