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| Semester | spring semester 2012 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Lorenza Mondada (lorenza.mondada@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The course offers substantial training in the area of Conversation Analysis, one of the mayor paradigms dealing with spoken language and social interaction. Conversation Analysis emerged within sociology in the ‘60s ; in turn, it inspired interactional linguistics in the ‘90s. Thus, it is a truly interdisciplinary approach, focusing on language in action, taking into consideration both the situated uses of language and context-free micro-practices transcending the diversity of settings and activities. We will insist on the importance of working on naturally occurring interactions, audio and video recorded in their ordinary social settings, as well as on carefully transcribed data. The relevance of details for the organization of talk-in-interaction will be highlighted, as far as turn-construction, sequence organization and the action formats are concerned. The seminar will begin with the ‘turn-taking machinery’ and explore the most fundamental aspects of sequential organization. Issues such as the contribution of temporal and sequential analysis to the study of grammar, as well as the importance of multimodal resources and not only of grammar will be discussed. Analytical issues will be treated on the basis of a rich array of empirical data – which will be studied in detail during hand-on seminars. The course will be given in French, German and English. |
| Bibliography | Bibliography Ford, C. E., Fox, B. A., & Thompson, S. A. (Eds.). (2002). The Language of Turn and Sequence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goodwin, C. (1981). Conversational Organization: Interaction Between Speakers and Hearers. New York: Academic Press. Gülich, E., & Mondada, L. (2008). Konversationsanalyse. Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Französischen. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Hakulinen, A., & Selting, M. (Eds.). (2005). Syntax and Lexis in Conversation. Studies on the Use of Linguistic Resources in Talk-in-interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Ochs, E., Schegloff, E. A., & Thompson, S. A. (Eds.). (1996). Grammar and Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. Language, 50, 696-735. Schegloff, E. A. (2007). Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis (Vol. 1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Language of instruction | French |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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| Modules |
Modul deskriptiv-synchronische französische Sprachwissenschaft (Bachelor's degree subject: Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft I (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul Sprachen und Gesellschaft (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul Sprachen und Individuum (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul Texte und Diskurse (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Examination Students will be requested to read a seminal paper in conversation analysis and to exploit it within the analysis of a fragment of data |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |