Transition Relevance Places and Overlapping in (Spanish-English) Conversational Etiquette

Ardila, Juan Antonio Garrido

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“…Authors who consider Spanish as a positive politeness language and English as a negative politeness one are Walters (1979), Hickey (1991) Haverkate (1998), Portolés and Vázquez (2000) and Ardila (2004), among others.…”

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Teaching culture: is it possible to avoid pragmatic failure?

Amaya¹

2008

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The main purpose of learning a second language is communication. Nevertheless, many students are surprised when they realise that, in spite of having a perfect dominion of the L2 grammar rules, they have difficulties at interpersonal level when establishing a conversation with native speakers. Thus, pragmatics constitutes a fundamental element of language ability for L2 learners. However, L2 teachers often overlook pragmatics, due to the difficulty of its teaching, and instead focus on the grammatical aspects of language. The resulting lack of pragmatic competence on the part of L2 students can lead to pragmatic failure and, more importantly, to a complete communication breakdown. In this paper, several examples are used to illustrate how pragmatic failures affect the interpretation of messages and sometimes block communication completely, thus defeating the principal purpose of L2 acquisition. Finally, guidance is provided to encourage teachers to incorporate the necessary pragmatic and cultural aspects of L2 learning into their lessons in order to prevent students from making these types of mistakes.

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Teaching culture: is it possible to avoid pragmatic failure?

Amaya¹

2008

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“…In a study of a variety of Peninsular Spanish, Cestero Mancera (1994) found that 46 percent (245/531) of turns were exchanged with a speaker completing the turn before the second speaker began to speak, and a nearly equal number of turns, 43 percent, (226/531) were overlapped by a following speaker. Ardila (2004) compared political debates in Peninsular Spanish and British English and reported that overlaps were more frequent in Spanish: in the Spanish debates talk, overlaps during another speaker's turn occurred every 22.72 seconds, compared with every 136.36 seconds in the English debates. Ardila also reported that overlaps in Spanish tended to be longer than in English: in Spanish they continued for more than 5 seconds, whereas in English they were seldom longer than 1 second; the longest overlaps in Spanish ranged from 11.70 to 20.55 seconds, while the longest overlaps in English were between 5.79 and 9.51 seconds.…”

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Conversing through overlaps: Information status and simultaneous talk in Cuban Spanish

Alfaraz

2009

Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication

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Simultaneous speech and turn-taking patterns vary considerably across cultures. Research on varieties of Spanish has confirmed that frequent, lengthy overlaps within and between turns are common. In this paper it is suggested that when speakers engage in simultaneous talk, they observe Grice's Cooperative Principle by adjusting their utterances so that the informativeness of their contribution is minimized in overlap. This paper approaches the linguistic composition of overlaps by examining the information status and grammatical function of noun phrases within and outside of overlaps. The statistical findings indicate a tendency to avoid delivering new information in overlap, which suggests that speakers are indeed cooperating with their interlocutors by minimizing utterance informativeness during overlap.

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“…Overlaps can be supportive and cooperative, or challenging" (Gibbons & Whiteley, 2018: 83). Besides, conversational etiquette is scrupulously observed in formal exchanges, and interrupting the speaker is considered a severe violation of etiquette (Ardila, 2004). Interlocutors tend to obey the sequences of transition in conversations, and exceptions are functional as participants perceive them as divergent from the expected flow (Enfiled & Sidnell, 2014).…”

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Identifying the Register Demolishing Hierarchy in American Discourse through Transition Relevance Place: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Peköz¹,

Durgun²

2021

10.52096

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In discourse, Transition Relevance Place (TRP), which transpires when the speaker changes in turn-taking, indicates numerous issues about participants' relationships, intentions, and roles in that conversation. For example, silence has the power to signal various concerns, ranging from comfort to awkwardness. Overlapping might mean cooperation or challenge depending on the context. Besides, etiquette in a conversation is scrupulously observed in formal exchanges, and interrupting the speaker is considered a severe violation of etiquette in conversations. Interlocutors tend to obey the sequences of transition in conversations, and exceptions are functional as participants of a conversation perceive them as divergent from the expected flow. In this sense, TRP is rather observable in a register regarding the possible effects it might contribute to it. As an area of sociolinguistics, register defines language use proper to a particular function in a context. Therefore, this study will argue that in an American comedy sitcom, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the interlocutors reconstruct the usual formal register by demolishing hierarchy through TRP.

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Transition Relevance Places and Overlapping in (Spanish-English) Conversational Etiquette

Cited by 14 publications

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Teaching culture: is it possible to avoid pragmatic failure?

Teaching culture: is it possible to avoid pragmatic failure?

Conversing through overlaps: Information status and simultaneous talk in Cuban Spanish

Identifying the Register Demolishing Hierarchy in American Discourse through Transition Relevance Place: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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