(A) Specific people who are involved as key informants in an ethnography
(B) A participant observation schedule that is used in qualitative research
(C) Factors outside the immediate context of an interaction
(D) The “here-and-now” context of situated talk
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What do discourse analysts study?
(A) Forms of communication other than talk
(B) The way discourses “frame” our understanding of the social world
(C) The rhetorical styles used in written and oral communication
(D) All of the above
What have conversation analysts found that people generally do to “repair” the damage caused by a “dispreferred response”?
(A) Provide accounts of their action
(B) Correct themselves and give the preferred response
(C) Brazen it out and pretend they don’t care
(D) Run away in a panic
What is meant by the term “adjacency pair” in CA?
(A) An interviewer and interviewee sitting next to each other
(B) Two linked phases of conversation
(C) Two similar questions asked in rapid succession
(D) A mechanism used to repair an embarrassing mistake
In a CA transcript, what does the symbol “(.)”?
(A) Intake of breath
(B) Prolonged sound
(C) Emphasis on the next word
(D) Slight pause
Which of the following is not one of the basic assumptions of CA?
(A) Talk is structured
(B) Talk is forged contextually
(C) Talk can be measured and predicted
(D) Analysis is grounded in data
In CA, the term “indexicality” means that:
(A) The meaning of an utterance depends on the context in which it is used
(B) Speech acts can be listed and indexed after transcription
(C) Words are constitutive of the social world in which they are located
(D) People tend to wave their index finger in the air while speaking
Conversation Analysis (CA) and Discourse Analysis (DA) differ from other qualitative research methods in that they treat language as:
(A) A method rather than a theory
(B) A resource rather than a topic
(C) A theory rather than a method
(D) A topic rather than a resource