New Adventures in Language and Interaction

Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
New adventures in language and interaction......Page 8
References......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
1.1 Origins of the «interactionist paradigm»......Page 17
1.2 Fundamental theses of the interactionist paradigm......Page 18
1.3 Properties of the «interaction order»......Page 19
1.4 Advocacy for extending the interactionist paradigm to individual cognition......Page 23
2.1 What theoretical requirements should the desired theoretical apparatus satisfy?......Page 26
2.2 Interlocutory logic: A system that satisfies the above requirements......Page 27
2.3 Conducting an analysis in interlocutory logic......Page 28
2.4 An example: The interlocutory logic of a shift-changeover dialogue......Page 33
Conclusion......Page 45
References......Page 48
1. Beyond symbols......Page 54
2. Bewitched by von Neumann machines......Page 55
3. Complexity in social behaviour......Page 58
4. Interaction is dynamical......Page 59
6. Enslavement and interaction: Parallels and contrasts......Page 60
7. Patrizia and Brunella’s dynamics......Page 61
8. Rethinking text-context relations......Page 67
9. The distributed view......Page 68
10. Contextualizing and the enslavement principle......Page 69
11. Interaction & language revisited......Page 71
References......Page 73
1. Introduction......Page 78
2. Principles......Page 79
2.2 The rules......Page 80
2.4 Adjacency pairs......Page 81
2.5 Speech acts......Page 83
2.6 The sequential organization of interaction......Page 85
2.7 Dialogical interpretation principle......Page 87
2.8 The role of sequential placement......Page 89
2.9 The role of context......Page 90
3. Analyzing an example: Good evening Mr Le Pen......Page 93
4. Concluding remarks......Page 97
References......Page 101
1. Introduction......Page 106
2. Grammar in conversation analytic(-related) work......Page 109
3. A brief view of grammar & interaction in systemic functional linguistics......Page 113
4. Grammar as an interactive resource......Page 115
4.1 Interpersonal meaning......Page 118
4.2 Ideational meaning......Page 121
4.3 Textual meaning......Page 122
5. Grammar influencing the trajectory of the interaction......Page 124
6. Conclusions......Page 126
References......Page 127
1. Interaction analysis and discourse-based approaches to intercultural communication......Page 132
2. Symbolic interactionism (SI), structuration theory, and discourse-based approaches......Page 134
3. Gumperz’s contribution to an interactional conception and analysis of language......Page 136
Issues in contemporary studies of interaction......Page 137
Drawing on positioning theory and storyline analysis to understand discursive tactics in inter-group communication in non-egalitarian contexts......Page 139
Case One: A business executive in Hong Kong......Page 141
Case Two: ‘Long Hair’: A defiant, outspoken, grassroot, democracy fighter in Hong Kong......Page 145
Coda......Page 150
References......Page 151
Introduction......Page 152
Action-implicative discourse analysis......Page 153
AIDA’s intellectual heritage......Page 154
Distinctive features of AIDA......Page 155
AIDA example: School board meetings......Page 158
Disciplinary discourses......Page 163
Interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and AIDA in Their disciplinary contexts......Page 165
The distinct contribution of AIDA......Page 168
References......Page 169
1. Introduction: Expertise as mediated knowledge-in-interaction......Page 174
1.1 Access to expertise and the ‘lay expert’......Page 177
1.2 The interactional basis of professional expertise......Page 178
2. The interactionist turn in social and human sciences......Page 179
3. Communicative practices in healthcare encounters......Page 181
4. Activity analysis and interaction types......Page 185
5. An extended case study from genetic counselling......Page 187
6. Conclusion......Page 199
References......Page 200
Interacting with difficulty......Page 206
1. ‘Problems’ in conversation......Page 207
2. Analyses/frameworks used to date......Page 209
3. Connecting lexicogrammar with context......Page 211
4. SFL’s perspective on contextual issues......Page 212
5. Lexical retrieval in interaction......Page 214
6. Interpersonal resources......Page 216
7. Interpreting ‘problems’ as pathological......Page 218
8. Brain & language interaction......Page 219
9. The value of interactional analysis for clinical purposes......Page 221
References......Page 223
1. Context......Page 230
2. Ecologies of gesture: Body and environment......Page 233
3. The body in communication......Page 242
4. Historical dimensions......Page 244
5. Dynamical systems......Page 246
References......Page 247
1. Introduction......Page 250
2. The selectivity of transcription......Page 251
3. Social interaction as an ecosystem......Page 252
3. Playscript transcription privileging speech over other semiotic media......Page 253
4. Alternative approaches to “multimodal” transcription......Page 255
References......Page 261
Dialogical dynamics......Page 264
1. Joint participation in a flow of spontaneously responsive activity: Shared ‘feelings of tendency’......Page 266
2. Developing our practices in practice......Page 269
3. Methods for exploring how to improve our practices from within our conduct of the practices......Page 271
4. Conclusions: From ‘aboutness-thinking’ to ‘withness-thinking’......Page 275
References......Page 278
Author index......Page 280
Subject index......Page 282
The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series......Page 284