Tools of engagement: selecting a next speaker in Australian Aboriginal multiparty conversations.
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(Blythe) Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
(Gardner) School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(Mushin) School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(Stirling) School of Languages & Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
(Gardner) School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(Mushin) School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(Stirling) School of Languages & Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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2018
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Research on Language and Social Interaction. Vol.51(2), 2018, pp. 145-170.
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Research on Language and Social Interaction
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Building on earlier Conversation Analytic work on turn-taking and response mobilization, we use video-recorded multiparty conversations to consider in detail how Australian Aboriginal participants in conversation select a next speaker in turns that are grammatically designed as questions. We focus in particular on the role of a range of embodied behaviors, such as gaze direction, body orientation, and pointing, to select-or avoid selecting-a next speaker. We use data from four remote Aboriginal communities to also explore the claims from ethnographic research that Aboriginal conversations typically occur in nonfocused participation frames. Data are in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa, Gija, and Jaru with English translations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
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Rural and remote health
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