Applying Conversation Analysis

This book explores the relationship between conversation analysis and applied linguistics, demonstrating how the analysis of institutional talk can contribute to professional practice. With a foreword by Paul Drew, the core of the collection deals with topics as diverse as speech therapy and retailing; radio journalism and cross-cultural training. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Introduction....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Autistic Children’s Co-ordination of Gaze and Talk: Re-examining the ‘Asocial’ Autist....Pages 19-37 Co-constructing Meaning in Acquired Speech Disorders: Word and Letter Repetition in the Construction of Turns....Pages 38-55 A Comparison of a Mother and a Therapist Working on Child Speech....Pages 56-72 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 Talking an Institution into Being: the Opening Sequence in General Practice Consultations....Pages 75-90 Would You Like to Do it Yourself? Service Requests and Their Non-granting Responses....Pages 91-106 Social Identity and Language Choice in Bilingual Service Talk....Pages 107-123 University Students Resisting Academic Identity....Pages 124-139 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 Different Orientations to Grammatical Correctness....Pages 143-158 Sidestepping Grammar....Pages 159-173 Discrimination Due to Nonnative Speech Production?....Pages 174-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 The Organization of Off-task Talk in Second Language Classrooms....Pages 197-213 Vowel-marking as an Interactional Resource in Japanese Novice ESL Conversation....Pages 214-234 Teaching Patterns of Interaction in English for Specific Purposes....Pages 235-250 Conversation Analysis as Research Methodology....Pages 251-266 Back Matter....Pages 267-292 More and more academics and professionals now recognise the contribution that conversation analysis can make to their work. However, up to now there has been little attempt to explore the important relationship between this exciting and rapidly growing field and applied linguistics. The contributions to this collection, all written from the analytic perspective of CA, bring together experts from a range of professional fields in order to demonstrate how CA can make a significant contribution to professional practice. As well as appealing to researchers and students in applied linguistics and the social sciences, the book's practical orientation will also make it valuable to specialists in a range of fields, including speech therapy, health communication, retailing, journalism and language teaching. The combination of academic and analytic rigour with strong practical relevance makes the collection essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in professional talk "The contributions to this collection, all written from the analytic perspective of CA, bring together experts from a range of professional fields in order to demonstrate how CA can make a significant contribution to professional practice." "As well as appealing to researchers and students in applied linguistics and the social sciences, the book's practical orientation will also make it valuable to specialists in a range of fields, including speech therapy, health communication, retailing, journalism and language teaching. The combination of academic and analytic rigour with strong practical relevance makes the collection essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in professional talk."--Jacket Exploring the relationship between conversation analysis and applied linguistics, this volume demonstrates how the analysis of institutional talk can contribute to professional practice