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INSTITUTIONAL TALK

SOC250 Everyday InteractionAmy Roberts; Ashleigh Morton; Jace Burgess

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INSTITUTIONAL INTERACTION

Discourse vs. discourse

Institutional settings

Institutional talk

Conversation analysis

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SUMMARY OF READING 1

Benwell, Bethan, and Elizabeth Stokoe. 2002.

Constructing discussion tasks in universitytutorials: shifting dynamics and identities.Discourse Studies vol. 4, no. 4: pp. 429-453.

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TALK IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS

Talking facilitates learning, promoting a theory oflearning and cognition that emphasizes language as

the mediator of higher mental processes (see Piaget,1970; Vygotsky, 1978). (p. 429)

Talk is therefore treated as a medium for the

conveying of information, with varying degrees ofeffectiveness, from a speaker to a listener (Maybin,1994: 132), in a transmission model of learning. (p.430)

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SUMMARY OF READING 2

Mayes, Patricia. 2010. The discursive

construction of identity and power in the criticalclassroom: Implications for applied criticaltheories.Discourse and Societyvol. 21, no. 2: pp.189-210.

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POWER

The findings suggest that applied critical theoriesare often too simplistic, assuming that power canbe straightforwardly transferred from the

powerful to the powerless. (p. 189)

Heritage (1997) suggests that power may beunderstood in terms of asymmetries that arise

through interaction in institutional settings. (p.194)

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IDENTITY

In the past identity was seen as a fixed, stableproperty of the individual psyche (Bucholtz and Hall,2005). (p. 194)

Identity is dynamic, intersubjective, constructed

moment by moment through social interaction, and,at the same time, subject to existing ideologies andperceived social constraints. It also suggests thatidentities are best investigated by examining howparticipants use language in context (Potter and

Wetherell, 1987; Widdicombe and Wooffitt, 1995;Edley and Wetherell, 1997; Antaki and Widdicombe,1998; Wetherell, 1998; Widdicombe, 1998; Coupland,2001; Bucholtz and Hall, 2005). (p. 195)

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RELATIONSHIP OF THEM

Recent work in conversation analysis suggeststhat power can be analyzed as a dynamicconstruct that is realized as social identities are

constructed through interaction. (p. 194)The important link between power and identityin this framework is the emphasis on how both of

these social constructs come into play throughdiscursive action. (p. 194)

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SOC250

Talk a catalyst? OR Learning itself?

Asymmetrical vs. Symmetrical

Guided vs. Controlled Discussion

3 Part formulation:

Ask question

Respond to question

Evaluate response to question

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Dramaturgy (wk 5)

Frontstage and backstage

Rudeness (wk 10) speech as performative

Pragmatics

CONNECTING THE DOTS

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Accomplishing sociocultural identity in talk (wk 8)

Discourse markers

The social and moral order in talk (wk 7)

Telling the code

Ethnomethodology (wk 6)

CONNECTING THE DOTS

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INSTITUTIONALIZED SETTINGS

Community service settings that facilitate itsresidents with access to education, legal, and

health services.I want to expand this definition to include placesof employment, churches and services such as

Centrelink.

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BOSS VS. EMPLOYEE

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CRAZY GUY DANCING IN CHURCH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaI0U1_IW4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaI0U1_IW4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaI0U1_IW4

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CENTRELINK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzE3nQaBqw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzE3nQaBqwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzE3nQaBqw

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PLAY TIME!!!

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Q&A

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