Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm

• Doctor of Philosophy
• The Ohio State University

This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the research program was started around the turn of the century, it has prospered internationally. Recently, however, new developments have opened up new perspectives for interactional linguistic research. I...

This chapter discusses three different actions speakers can employ to move between two concurrently ongoing activities, playing cards and talking. Specifically, we describe three turn formats that mobilize another participant to perform the next move in a card game: (1) turns including the discourse marker "so", (2) imperatives, and (3) second-pers...

Requesting, recruitment, and other ways of mobilizing others to act have garnered much interest in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. This volume takes a holistic perspective on the practices that we use to get others to act either with us, or for us. It argues for a more explicit focus on ‘activity’ in unpacking the linguistic an...

The goal of this paper is to enhance the quality of language teaching and improve language teacher training by making spoken interaction research accessible to practitioners. Research on teacher cognition has shown that basic beliefs and assumptions about language affect language teacher training programs and language teachers' priorities in the cl...

This conversation analytical study examines two formats of invitations in everday interaction in Iran. Invitation is a common social activity in which one party gets the other party to join an activity that may be beneficial to both. The study focuses on instances of invitations in everyday Farsi telephone conversations and investigates their turn...

This paper offers an instructional unit on the response token achja in everyday German conversation. The paper first provides a description of achja and its distinctive prosodic features based on empirical research in conversation analysis. The goal of the paper is to provide instructors of German with information and guidance to integrate authenti...

In line with the other contributions to this issue on teaching pragmatics, this paper provides teachers of German with a two-day lesson plan for integrating authentic spoken language and its associated cultural background into their teaching. Specifically, the paper discusses how jaja and its phonetic variants are systematically used at the beginni...

This paper provides a conversation analytic description of the particle dige in turn-final position in Farsi conversation, and demonstrates its function as an epistemic marker. The analysis suggests that the turn-final particle dige occurs in turns that signal problems with the prior turn(s) that may have been motivated by matters related to managi...

English abstract Using conversation analysis, this paper describes the function of repeats in spoken German. Its analytic focus is repeats in third position to two-part sequences. Such sequence-expanding repeats do not (primarily) initiate repair; instead, they present and explicitly register just-retrieved, new, or corrected information. We discus...

Computer-mediated communication or CMC refers to a rapidly growing means of online communication through which people interact with each other by language, usually typed on a keyboard and read on a computer screen. CMC includes chat, computer messages, e-mail, computer conferencing, forums, and online bulletin boards. Some communication modes, such...

This study provides an empirical examination of how American learners of German accomplish the social action of requesting in L2 conversation, demonstrating how L2 learners use their linguistic and interactional resources to orient to preference structure in their talk. The data illustrate the sequential contingencies surrounding requests and their...

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and within the request base sequence, and the placement...

Using conversation analytic methodology, this paper investigates how 'politeness' and 'face' are negotiated in web chats. Following previous conversation analytic research (Heritage 1984), we first tie the concepts face and social solidarity to the conversation analytic concept of preference organization. We then proceed to describe the system of c...

This paper revisits the question of why pragmatics should be taught in the foreign language classroom and demonstrates how this can be achieved effectively with materials informed by conversation analysis (CA). Since findings in CA describe systematic action sequences underlying verbal activities that display cross-cultural variation, they capture...

In this article I provide two examples of extended stretches of talk to illustrate a particular request type, namely, contingent requests. In particular, I demonstrate how contingent requests and their turn shapes are occasioned by some conditional circumstances that are set up during their prerequest expansion. One of the main characteristics of s...

The purpose of this paper is twofold: First, it contrasts “ritual routines” in telephone conversation openings in Iran and Germany. Specifically, it focuses on the interactional organization of the ritual “how are you” sequence in both cultures. Furthermore, it illustrates how the ritual “how are you” sequence is expanded in Iranian telephone conve...

Telephone conversation is one of the most common forms of communication in contemporary society. For the first time in human history, some people are spending as much time, if not more, talking on the telephone as they are on face-to-face conversations. The aims of this book are: to bring together in one volume research on telephone conversations i...