Final Assignment

-- KerstinFischer -- 12 Dec 2005

How to analyse your transcripts:

• turn-taking: what is normal, where are problems?
• membership: who claims to be a member of what, how, and when?
• alignment: who aligns with whom, when, how, why, and when not?
• use of proverbs
• use of accounts: what is treated as accountable, i.e. what is treated such that it needs justification?
• genre: how do genre conventions surface?
• feedback: which work do the feedback signals do, do they serve as continuers? Do they display the listeners' state of knowledge appropriately?
• flow of topics: who changes the topic when and why?
• simplification: are there features of linguistic simplification?
• common ground: how is common ground constructed, do the speakers focus on sameness or on difference?
• cultural orientations: how do the speakers' cultural orientations surface? Which role do your own cultural orientations, as elicited by your questionnaire, play in the dialogue?

Please hand these analyses in by the end of the term. The earlier you do the analyses, the more you still memorise about the course, the less work it will be for you.