Hello, I have a student interested in theories that explain the use of hesitations, hedges and the like. He has encountered them in his transcriptions and become interested in how to analyze them. What literature should I point him to? I don't know this area at all. Thank you. -- Bonnie Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
Try Conversation Analysis. (Though for one criticism of CA's approach on this, see http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-2635.html). Mark
Hello,
I have a student interested in theories that explain the use of hesitations, hedges and the like. He has encountered them in his transcriptions and become interested in how to analyze them.
What literature should I point him to? I don't know this area at all.
Thank you.
Bonnie
Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
-- Mark Warschauer Associate Professor, Dept. of Education and Dept. of Informatics University of California, Irvine tel: (949) 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/faculty/markw
More specifically, look at the conversation analytic literature that considers the notion of 'dispreference' - I'm currently using the framework to look at the same thing in online talk. Some good references are the following two texts, which each have nice sections on preference and includes hedges and hesitations and palliatives and the like: Heritage, J.C. (1984). Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Levinson, S.C. (1983). Pragmatics. Also, these two articles give more specific information on what your student is probably looking at: Pomerantz, A.M. (1984). Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: Some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes. In J.M. Atkinson and J.C. Heritage (Eds.) Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis Sacks, H. (1987). On the preference for agreement and contiguity in sequences in conversation. In G. Button and J.R.E. Lee (Eds.) Talk and social organization (pp. 54-69). By the way, feel free to have your student get in touch if he has any questions. Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/ Quoting Mark Warschauer <markw@uci.edu>: * Try Conversation Analysis. (Though for one criticism of CA's * approach on this, see http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-2635.html). * Mark * * * >Hello, * > * >I have a student interested in theories that explain the use of * >hesitations, hedges and the like. He has encountered them in his * >transcriptions and become interested in how to analyze them. * > * >What literature should I point him to? I don't know this area at all. * > * >Thank you. * > * >Bonnie * > * >Bonnie A. Nardi * >School of Information and Computer Sciences * >University of California, Irvine * >Irvine, CA 92697-3425 * >(949) 824-6534 * >www.artifex.org/~bonnie/ * * * -- * Mark Warschauer * Associate Professor, Dept. of Education and Dept. of Informatics * University of California, Irvine * tel: (949) 824-2526, fax: (949) 824-2965 * markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/faculty/markw * _______________________________________________ * The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * * Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * http://www.aoir.org/ *
(FWIW, the link below criticizes sociolinguistic approaches to hedges and silences using language and power studies, and likely those that came out of the field of language and gender - conversation analysis does quite the opposite from what that review says it does) </soapbox> Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/ Quoting Mark Warschauer <markw@uci.edu>: * Try Conversation Analysis. (Though for one criticism of CA's * approach on this, see http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-2635.html). * Mark *
On Apr 12, 2006, at 12:38 PM, joshua raclaw wrote:
(FWIW, the link below criticizes sociolinguistic approaches to hedges and silences using language and power studies, and likely those that came out of the field of language and gender
and specifically the work of Robin Lakoff (Language and Woman's Place, 1975). She's definitely not a conversation analyst. --Christian Nelson
I stand corrected. I posted too hastily while trying to finish up (well, get started on) my taxes! Mark At 1:00 PM -0400 4/12/06, Christian Nelson wrote:
On Apr 12, 2006, at 12:38 PM, joshua raclaw wrote:
(FWIW, the link below criticizes sociolinguistic approaches to hedges and silences using language and power studies, and likely those that came out of the field of language and gender
and specifically the work of Robin Lakoff (Language and Woman's Place, 1975). She's definitely not a conversation analyst. --Christian Nelson
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To add to the suggested literature: Locher, Miriam. 2004. Power and politeness in action: Disagreement in oral communication. Mouton De Gruyter. If memory serves, I think Margaret L. McLaughlin's Conversation: How Talk is Organized, also provides some discussion of hesitations, and the like, or at the very least a nice introduction to theories of interaction. Best wishes, ~Jenny
Hello,
I have a student interested in theories that explain the use of hesitations, hedges and the like. He has encountered them in his transcriptions and become interested in how to analyze them.
What literature should I point him to? I don't know this area at all.
Thank you.
--
Bonnie
Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
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Thanks to everyone for all these great suggestions. Am I right that most of these papers concern turn taking? My student is interested in how people hesitate in expressing ideas rather than in conversational back and forth. Sorry I was unclear. Thanks again. Best, -- Bonnie On Apr 12, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:
To add to the suggested literature:
Locher, Miriam. 2004. Power and politeness in action: Disagreement in oral communication. Mouton De Gruyter.
If memory serves, I think Margaret L. McLaughlin's Conversation: How Talk is Organized, also provides some discussion of hesitations, and the like, or at the very least a nice introduction to theories of interaction.
Best wishes, ~Jenny
Hello,
I have a student interested in theories that explain the use of hesitations, hedges and the like. He has encountered them in his transcriptions and become interested in how to analyze them.
What literature should I point him to? I don't know this area at all.
Thank you.
--
Bonnie
Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
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Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Bonnie Nardi wrote:
Thanks to everyone for all these great suggestions.
Am I right that most of these papers concern turn taking? My student is interested in how people hesitate in expressing ideas rather than in conversational back and forth.
Everything in conversation is a turn-taking phenomenon in one way or another. For instance, due to the rules of turn-taking, one cannot hesitate at many transition relevance places in a conversation without running the risk of loosing the chance to take a turn unless one does something to indicate one wants to talk but needs to hesitate. Further, what one's hesitation means depends at the very least on the immediately prior turn in the conversation. Of course, this assumes that your student is looking at conversations and similar interactional things. --Christian Nelson
Bonnie-- I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but Mackiewicz and Riley published an article in a 2003 issue of Technical Communication entitled "The Editor as Diplomat: Linguistic Strategies for Balancing Clarity and Politeness." While this article addresses editing and draws some conclusions that a team from Texas Tech is studying, the article does take a thorough look at hedges, downtoners, etc. and has a good bibliography. Best, Pam Pamela Estes Brewer Lecturer -- Coordinator, Professional Writing Department of English and Philosophy Murray State University PhD Student in Technical Communication & Rhetoric, Texas Tech University 270-809-4719 fax 270-809-4545 pam.brewer@murraystate.edu On March 1, 2006, Murray State University will begin moving all its phone numbers in the 762 exchange to an 809 exchange. My new numbers will be 270-809-4719 (office), and 270-809-4545 (FAX). -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Bonnie Nardi Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:45 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] hesitations, hedges Thanks to everyone for all these great suggestions. Am I right that most of these papers concern turn taking? My student is interested in how people hesitate in expressing ideas rather than in conversational back and forth. Sorry I was unclear. Thanks again. Best, -- Bonnie On Apr 12, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:
To add to the suggested literature:
Locher, Miriam. 2004. Power and politeness in action: Disagreement in oral communication. Mouton De Gruyter.
If memory serves, I think Margaret L. McLaughlin's Conversation: How Talk is Organized, also provides some discussion of hesitations, and the like, or at the very least a nice introduction to theories of interaction.
Best wishes, ~Jenny
Hello,
I have a student interested in theories that explain the use of hesitations, hedges and the like. He has encountered them in his transcriptions and become interested in how to analyze them.
What literature should I point him to? I don't know this area at all.
Thank you.
--
Bonnie
Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
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