Walsh, S. and Morton, Tom and O’Keeffe, A. (2011) Analysing university spoken interaction: a CL/CA approach. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16 (3), pp. 325-345. ISSN 1384-6655.
Abstract
In this article, we consider how corpus linguistics (CL) and conversation analysis (CA) can be used together to provide enhanced descriptions of spoken interaction in the context of small group teaching in higher education. From our analysis of the data, we show how the two approaches can be combined in an iterative process to account for features of spoken discourse at both micro (word) and macro (text) levels. Beginning with CL and focusing largely on words and combinations of words, we then use CA to highlight pertinent interactional features. Our methodology follows an iterative process: from CL to CA, back to CL and so on. This approach to analysis provides powerful insights into the ways in which interactants establish understandings in educational settings and, in particular, highlights the inter-dependency of words, utterances and text in the co-construction of meaning.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | methods and approaches, conversation analysis, small-group teaching, multi-word units |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2013 12:08 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:32 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6258 |
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