doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.6.465
An Overview of “Turns” in Conversation Analysis
Geng Chao
- School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Maritime University, China.
Abstract
Conversation Analysis (CA) derives from the 1970s,which was put forward by Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson forthe sack of analyzing institutional talk, e.g., business negotiationdiscourse, and doctor-patient communication discourse andtelephone conversations. Currently, it has become the mostfavorable and effective method to analyze interactive discourse.As the essential part of CA, the “turn” is the foundation of allthe research, carrying talk information and social rules ininteraction that plays an essential role in guiding the outcome ofconversations in social communication. The thesis madeclassification, summaries and reviews on studies of “turns” inconversation to explores the orientation of “turn” inconversation by specifying the aspects of turn-taking, allocating,and repairing to make an overview of turn in conversationanalysis and provide a spark for further study in the field. Theoverview helped to recognize current status and make a newattempt. It was revealed that studies of “turns” in conversationanalysis are widely applied in healthcare, patient-to-doctorinteraction in particular; during analysis of conversation, timespanand manners of participants were mainly focused. Thethesis discovered a fact that studies of “turns” on on-lineinteraction is insufficient, which is significant under the currentsituation.
Keywords
- Conversation analysis
- repair
- turn allocating
- turn-taking
How to Cite
Geng Chao, "An Overview of “Turns” in Conversation Analysis," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 530-535, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.6.465
Copyright & License
Copyright © 2023 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).