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| What is conversation analysis? |
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Research and assessment tool for real interactions
Not a treatment technique
Can be used as feedback in therapy and to evaluate changes
Provides qualitative information
Purpose is to discover, describe and analyse the organisation of soical action |
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| Originated in sociology in the 1960s - Harvey Sacks and Emmanuel Schegloff at the University of California |
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| Presentation phase and Acceptance phase |
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| An utterance is presented by the speaker which is initiated by the listener and indicates understanding |
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| The Principal of Least Collaborative Effort |
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| Both conversation partners aim to achieve minimum effort on the contribution to presentation and acceptances phases |
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Acknowledges and measures the interactive and collaborative nature of communication - analysis can be used for work with communication partners not just someone with an impairment
Minimally obtrusive - no stress |
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| Restatement of an utterance - how to the conversationalists go about dealing with repairs? |
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| Self-initiated self-repair |
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Correcting ourselves - requires ability to monitor accuracy and use language to retrieve a situation
Most favoured |
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| Self-initiated other-repair |
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| the speaker has recognised that a repair is needed and invites the listener to complete it |
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| Other-initated self-repair |
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| the listener has recognised that a repair is necessary and invited the speaker to complete the repair |
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| Other-initated other-repair |
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| the listener has recognised that a repair is needed and gone ahead to do it |
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| something that leads to a need for a repair |
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| Turn Constructional Unit (TCU) |
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| Fundamental segment of speech which comprises a turn |
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| Transition Relevance Place (TRP) |
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| The end of a TCU, whereby the listener anitcipates their turn and takes it without overlap - requires split second timing |
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| The speaker holds the conversational floor |
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| Single word responce or back channel, in which the speaker's contribution is limited and control of the floor immediately passes back to the other speaker |
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| Pauses from the speaker lasting more than half a second in which to invite a reply from the listener |
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| One topic of conversation flows into another |
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| Active intitation of a new topic |
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SPPARC - Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships and Conversations
CAPPA - Conversation Analysis Profile for People with Aphasia |
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