Blythe-etal2018

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Blythe-etal2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Blythe-etal2018
Author(s) Joe Blythe, Rod Gardner, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling
Title Tools of engagement: selecting a next speaker in Australian Aboriginal multiparty conversations
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Tag(s) EMCA, Responsiveness, Embodied behavior, Australia, Aboriginal
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 51
Number 2
Pages 145–170
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2018.1449441
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Abstract

Building on earlier Conversation Analytic work on turn-taking and response mobilization, we use video-recorded multiparty conversations to consider in detail how Australian Aboriginal participants in conversation select a next speaker in turns that are grammatically designed as questions. We focus in particular on the role of a range of embodied behaviors, such as gaze direction, body orientation, and pointing, to select—or avoid selecting—a next speaker. We use data from four remote Aboriginal communities to also explore the claims from ethnographic research that Aboriginal conversations typically occur in nonfocused participation frames. Data are in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa, Gija, and Jaru with English translations.

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