This study explores cotext as a topical resource through analysis of a multiparty radio talk show. 99-125 Article in journal (Refereed) Published Abstract It also outlines a method, topical episode analysis, for coding and analyzing coherence in terms of episode structure in (especially mu!tiparty) conversation. This poper presents the fundamentals of a modef ofepisode structure and its relations to contextual resources. On the oter hand, episode initiation.! are systematically dependent on lextual and contextual resorces that speakers take as given, when - in the interaction - they guide their interlocutors into doing or talking about sornething new. The initiation of a newepisode involes, per definition, the introtiuction of something new. We argue that episodes and topics are equally basic tp conversations. They are boundaried sequences at a structually intermediate level, that is, above the level of utterance/turn but below that of the whofe encounter and its major phases. 799-831 Article in journal (Refereed) Published Abstract Įpisodes in Conversatum are topically and interactionally defined. , Elysion, Hus T, Campus Valla, Linköpings Universitet, Linköping, 13:15 (English)ġ996 (English) In: Journal of Linguistics, ISSN 0022-2267, E-ISSN 1469-7742, Vol. Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences, ISSN 0282-9800 171 Keywords Ĭoherence, episode, context, multiparty conversation, activity type, communicative impairments, radio talk, dinner conversation National Category
Place, publisher, year, edition, pagesLinköping: Linköpings University, 1998. Results include the following points: (i) coherence in multiparty conversation can be regarded as a co-construction (ii) coherence is accomplished through the invoking of contexts (context, situation, and background knowledge), implying that coherence is an attribute of activities in context and not only 'text' (iii) coherence-making is the unmarked case in authentic conversation and incoherence or non-coherence appear to be theoretical constructs (iv) coherence patterns are activity specific (v) coherence is multilayered, consisting of one local and several global levels (vi) coherence is constructed through a division of communicative labour, suggesting that also people with communicative impairments contribute to coherence-making. In all conversations, conversing is a main activity.īoth qualitative and quantitative analyses have been carried out. The empirical material used, 24 multiparty conversations making up a total of 1500 episodes, consists of dinner conversations among peers, multi-generational family gatherings (involving aphasics), radio talk shows, and conversations recorded at a centre aimed for elderly people (with symptoms of dementia). The thesis explores the concept of episode and its place among units of interaction, and describes the episode structure and coherence-making in some specific activity types. Also, a coding method of coherence has been developed, Topical Episode Analysis (abbreviated as TEA). This reflects the reciprocal relations between language, social interaction, and cognition. talk, context(s) and actions, and sense-making practices invoking contexts during the progression of interaction.
The use of episode implies that coherence, a pragmatic phenomenon, steadily encompasses text, i.e. Important questions are: what makes multiparty talk hold together, what do a number of participants in conversation (have to) do in order to sustain coherence, and in what senses can multiparty conversations be argued to be coherent?Ī notion of episode is (re)introduced as a unit of natural social interaction, manifest at a structurally intermediate, or a global, level of conversation. Coherence is analysed as a type of organisation relevant for the making of meaning in situated interaction, but also in retrospect from a third party's (or analyst's) perspective it is both constructed and reconstructed. This study contributes to an understanding of how coherence can be assigned or constructed by participants in authentic multiparty conversational interaction.
1998 (English) Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) Abstract
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