Discourse and Conversation
Discourse and Conversation
Discourse and Conversation
Conversation
Group4
Members
Ly Nha Yen
Tran Tuan Minh
Van My Phuong
Nguyen Hoang Thao Vy
Presentation Overview
• what is conversation analysis
• Transcription conversation
• Sequence and structure in conversation
• Preference organization
• Feedback
• Repair
• Discourse marker
• Conclusion
conversation define
• Conversation refers to two or more
individuals talking with one another just for
the sake of talking
• Conversation occurs when people cooperate
with each other in order to introduce and
sustain a single focus of attention by taking
turns with each other
Conversation
analysis
An approach to the analysis of spoken
discourse that looks at the way in which
people manage their everyday
conversational interactions.
Another speaker
could have taken the
conversation away
from her.
→ Emphasis
→ Hold the floor
→ Invites a response
Good wishes
• Not pausing too long at the end of • The completion of syntactic unit
an utterance • The use of falling intonation, then
• Pausing during an utterance pausing
• Increasing the volume of what we • Use a signal
are saying • Eye contact, body position and
• Speaking over someone else’s movement and voice pitch .
attempt to take our turn.
Adjacency pairs
Utterances produced by two successive speakers in a way
that the second utterance is identified as related to the
first one as an expected follow-up to that utterance.
Ricky: No.
Example:
J: People are saying you're sexist. Do you think you're sexiest?
P: Ah, no
J: Do you think you offensive woman today?
P: I've appologized to the w- to the people who've been offended
by what I said
Repair
T H E R E A R E F O U R T Y P E S O F R E PA I R :
Example:
A: I'm heading off to vacation next week.
B: What?
A: I said I am going on vacation next week.
Repair
T H E R E A R E F O U R T Y P E S O F R E PA I R :
Example :
A: I need more storage space on my computer, so I need to get a new
umm....
B: A hard drive?
A: Yeah, that's right, a hard drive.
Repair
T H E R E A R E F O U R T Y P E S O F R E PA I R :
Example :
A: Aren't you glad that today is payday?
B: Payday is actually tomorrow.
Discourse markers
Items in spoken discourse which act as signposts of discourse coherence
This includes interjections (oh), conjunctions(but), adverbs(now) and lexical phrases(y'know)
Discourse markers
Adding Qualifying Cause & Effect
Comparing Emphasisin
Contrastin
g g
Discourse markers
The ship sunk because it hit a rock. (cause & effect)
Lily likes to play volleyball wheares John prefers to play soccer. (contrast)
Well, It’s spacious and fully- furnished. On top of that, the rental fee is
affordable for a student like me (adding)
.....
CONCLUSION