Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional Interaction Involving Multiple Participants
This paper examines one aspect of turn-taking organization in institutional interactions: the use of first names and their prosodic marking for next-speaker selection. Institutional interaction is characterized by asymmetrical rights to talk and pre-allocation of acti...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Presses universitaires de Caen
2013-12-01
|
| Series: | Discours |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/discours/8869 |
| _version_ | 1818752634112180224 |
|---|---|
| author | Dimitri Voilmy Mari Wiklund |
| author_facet | Dimitri Voilmy Mari Wiklund |
| author_sort | Dimitri Voilmy |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This paper examines one aspect of turn-taking organization in institutional interactions: the use of first names and their prosodic marking for next-speaker selection. Institutional interaction is characterized by asymmetrical rights to talk and pre-allocation of action. This involves the restriction of one party to asking questions and the other to responding to them. The analysis focuses on two of these multiparty formal situations: co-present classroom participants and live interactive television broadcast with remote participants. In each context, turn allocation is determined by one party: the teacher or TV host. After asking a question as a sequence-initiating action, the teacher or host designates the next speaker by name. The use of first names is situatedly examined in terms of turn-taking organization and prosodic characteristics. The study examines how the prosodic marking is context-sensitive: do the participants have visual access to each other’s actions and how is a name used to attract attention? This paper analyses the formation and maintaining of a mutual orientation towards a single conversational action: selecting and giving the floor to a co-participant of the conversation in an institutional framework. These detailed descriptions of the sequential order are based on ethnomethodologically-informed conversation analysis. The objective is to compare four “single cases”, preserving the specificities and “whatness” of each excerpt. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-18T04:54:35Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-6a7e99f33f9942e0b39f627a770f77d5 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1963-1723 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-18T04:54:35Z |
| publishDate | 2013-12-01 |
| publisher | Presses universitaires de Caen |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Discours |
| spelling | doaj.art-6a7e99f33f9942e0b39f627a770f77d52022-12-21T21:20:19ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232013-12-011310.4000/discours.8869Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional Interaction Involving Multiple ParticipantsDimitri VoilmyMari WiklundThis paper examines one aspect of turn-taking organization in institutional interactions: the use of first names and their prosodic marking for next-speaker selection. Institutional interaction is characterized by asymmetrical rights to talk and pre-allocation of action. This involves the restriction of one party to asking questions and the other to responding to them. The analysis focuses on two of these multiparty formal situations: co-present classroom participants and live interactive television broadcast with remote participants. In each context, turn allocation is determined by one party: the teacher or TV host. After asking a question as a sequence-initiating action, the teacher or host designates the next speaker by name. The use of first names is situatedly examined in terms of turn-taking organization and prosodic characteristics. The study examines how the prosodic marking is context-sensitive: do the participants have visual access to each other’s actions and how is a name used to attract attention? This paper analyses the formation and maintaining of a mutual orientation towards a single conversational action: selecting and giving the floor to a co-participant of the conversation in an institutional framework. These detailed descriptions of the sequential order are based on ethnomethodologically-informed conversation analysis. The objective is to compare four “single cases”, preserving the specificities and “whatness” of each excerpt.http://journals.openedition.org/discours/8869turn-takingprosodic productionmulti-party settingsconversation analysisinteractional linguisticsclassroom interaction |
| spellingShingle | Dimitri Voilmy Mari Wiklund Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional Interaction Involving Multiple Participants Discours turn-taking prosodic production multi-party settings conversation analysis interactional linguistics classroom interaction |
| title | Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional Interaction Involving Multiple Participants |
| title_full | Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional Interaction Involving Multiple Participants |
| title_fullStr | Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional Interaction Involving Multiple Participants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional Interaction Involving Multiple Participants |
| title_short | Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional Interaction Involving Multiple Participants |
| title_sort | syntactic and prosodic forms of first names in institutional interaction involving multiple participants |
| topic | turn-taking prosodic production multi-party settings conversation analysis interactional linguistics classroom interaction |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/discours/8869 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT dimitrivoilmy syntacticandprosodicformsoffirstnamesininstitutionalinteractioninvolvingmultipleparticipants AT mariwiklund syntacticandprosodicformsoffirstnamesininstitutionalinteractioninvolvingmultipleparticipants |