Tools of Engagement: selecting a next speaker in Australian Aboriginal multiparty conversations

Joe Blythe, Rod Gardner, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling

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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 behaviours, 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 non-focused participation frames. Data are in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa, Gija and Jaru with English translations.
LanguageEnglish
Pages145-170
Number of pages26
JournalResearch on Language and Social Interaction
Volume51
Issue number2
Early online date15 May 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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Tools of Engagement : selecting a next speaker in Australian Aboriginal multiparty conversations. / Blythe, Joe; Gardner, Rod; Mushin, Ilana; Stirling, Lesley.

In: Research on Language and Social Interaction, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2018, p. 145-170.

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