Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics

Abstract

Interactional linguistics is grounded on the premise that language should not be analyzed in terms of context‐free linguistic structures but as a resource for the accomplishment of actions in social interaction. With this in mind, interactional linguistics takes an interdisciplinary approach to a linguistic analysis that aims at an understanding of how language is both shaped by and itself shapes the actions it is used for. Interactional linguistics combines an interest in linguistic phenomena and structures with the theory and methodology of conversation analysis (CA) and contextualization theory (CT). It is conceptualized as an interface between linguistic analysis and the analysis of social interaction.

The History and Landscape of Conversation and Discourse Analysis

“…Thus, interactional linguistics combines the approach of CA with linguistics and contextualisation theory and forms an interface between linguistic analysis and the study of social interaction (Kern & Selting, 2012).…”

“…In other words, interactional linguistics is founded on the premise that language ought not to be studied in terms of contextfree linguistic structures, but instead should be examined as a 'resource' for accomplishing social actions (Kern & Selting, 2012).…”

Turkish German

“…Interactional linguistic studies (cf. Kern and Selting ) of Turkish German also aim to investigate communicative practices in everyday conversation. However, in contrast to more ethnographic and sociolinguistic studies, the emphasis is less on the description of how Turkish German is used to establish and signal aspects of social identity but on how elements of Turkish German are employed for the organisation of talk‐in‐interaction.…”

Using linguistic methods in clinical communication education

“…Interactional linguistics (IL) analyses linguistic structures as a resource for the accomplishment of actions in social Li S, Said F, O'Neill B, Ancarno C, Niksic M MedEdPublish https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2016.000119 Page | 3 interaction (Kern and Selting 2013). It draws on several disciplines, including conversation analysis (study of systematic sequential organization in talk-in-interaction), discourse analysis (study of language as discourse in context), pragmatics (study of language and social actions it entails) and linguistics (study of language structure).…”

“…In attempt to meet the demand, we developed the Clin-Com Tool (CCT), drawing on the analytical methods in Interactional Linguistics (Kern and Selting 2013).…”