Limberg2010

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Limberg2010
BibType BOOK
Key Limberg2010
Author(s) Holger Limberg
Title The Interactional Organization of Academic Talk
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Tag(s) EMCA, Academic Talk, Organization
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2010
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City Amsterdam
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.198
ISBN 9789027287854
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Abstract

This book provides interesting and critical insights into a common university practice, the academic office hour. Office hours are a discursive site for a variety of different issues, ranging from administrative matters to course-related and study-related concerns. The study offers both an ethnographic account of this speech event within the socio-cultural context of a German university as well as a more detailed analysis of the interactional organization of academic consultations. It draws on natural recordings of entire office hour interactions in order to show how participants’ actions at different stages of the talk organize and accomplish the consultation. The analytical focus is set on the sequential activities teachers and students engage in as they conduct a consultation. This includes, for instance, how participants open an office hour talk, how they establish an agenda, how they manage advice-giving, and how they close the consultation. As such, this book will be of practical use to students and faculty members as well as scholars from different disciplines who work in the areas of institutional talk and talk-in-interaction.

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