Burch2016
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| BibType | PHDTHESIS |
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| Author(s) | Alfred Rue Burch |
| Title | Motivation in Interaction: A Conversation-Analytic Perspective |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, L2, SLA, Motivation |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Language | English |
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| School | University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
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Abstract
In particular, this study focuses on three aspects of motivation-in-interaction: 1) persistence, or the sustained orientation (often through interactional difficulty) toward an interactional goal, 2) initiative , or engagement and participation at points where it would not be noticeably absent or accountable to not engage, and 3) motivation as topic, focusing on Peony’s self-assessments of her Japanese ability and her accounts regarding the efforts she makes towards studying the language. The analysis reveals that while there are indeed times that Peony’s effort is oriented toward specific learning objects, much of her effort is exerted towards other situated identities such as being an attentive friend or family member. Furthermore, the sequential nature of persistence and engagement, and Peony’s relationships with her co-participants on one hand, and the relationships with others that are invoked in her conversations, with their concomitant category bound rights and obligations on the other, make clear that motivation at the interactional level is very much a matter of mundane morality (Jayussi, 1984; 1991).
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