| Popis: |
For the past decade there has been a steadily increasing interest in the analysis of everyday conversation. Researchers have focused on how we open conversations, how we close them, how we interrupt, and recently, how we effect repairs in discourse. The research has been carried out on a corpus of tape-recorded American English (Schegloff, 1968; Schegloff and Sacks, 1973; Sacks et al, 1974; Schegloff et al., 1977), although Moerman’s studies on Thai natural discourse confirm these findings (Moerman, 1972, 1977). Researchers have also begun the analysis of video-taped or filmed occurrences of natural conversation (Kendon, 1967, 1970; Goodwin, 1977a and b), and attempts are now being made to correlate the findings from the analysis of audio-tapes with those from video-tapes and films. It is clear that filmed instances (whether by video or sound film) of natural conversation provide a more complete record of the total interaction taking place as the researcher now has access to the same behavior the participants to the conversation had in the first place, and which they used to facilitate their understanding. Very often the only clue we give when we have finished talking, or are ready to begin, is a postural or gestural one, and without visual contact such clues will be missed, resulting in impaired communication. |
