Authors’ names:
Valentina A. Tyryguina – Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Abstract:
The focus of the article is on conversation as a type of social interaction, considered through the prism of conversation analysis. The purpose of conversation analysis is to identify the rules and techniques responsible for the production of specific situations of social interaction, in the process of which interactants construct their speech behavior and interpret the behavior of the other. The object of this research is real, spontaneous, unconstrained dialogic speech in situations of family communication; the subject is dialogues in the family from the standpoint of conversation analysis, where the focus is on social and constitutive activity. The purpose is to consider the manifestation of the interaction of participants in everyday conversations in the family using the CA method: turn-taking, signals of turn-taking, sequence of turns in adjacent pairs, marked and unmarked reactions, details accompanying interaction. In terms of research material, the study is based on dialogues from American films, “Home Alone” (1990) and “Marley & Me” (2008). Although the films are fictional, the speech of the movie characters in them is as close as possible to natural spontaneous speech and reproduces the conditions of natural social interaction with a significant degree of authenticity. As the main research method, the method of conversation analysis (CA) was used, which makes it possible to describe conversation-in-interaction at the macro- and micro levels, taking into account the sequence, communicative moves, the process of formation of intersubjective meaning in adjacent pairs, and transcription of non-verbal components accompanying speech interaction (laughter, prosody, pauses). At the macro level, everyday conversations in the family are considered in terms of the basic units of interaction, turns, their sequence, adjacent pairs, and at the micro level through the transcription of details that accompany the interaction of participants in family communication. The author concludes by outlining prospects for further study of the problem under consideration.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2024-66-2-121-147 |
| Downloads | 198 |
| Key words | conversation; interaction; conversion analysis; adjacent pairs; unmarked reactions; turn-taking; intersubjectivity; indexation |