Abstract
In this paper, I treat avoidance as a locally contingent practice that is collaboratively co-constructed by participants in real time as a topic of interaction during the course of naturally occurring institutional talk. In order to develop this post-cognitive account of how participants do, and justify doing, avoidance-as-behavior, I draw on ethnomethodological conversation analysis and discursive psychology to frame and explicate a number of emerging issues in the conversation analysis-for-second language acquisition literature. These issues include: (1) How can we respecify individual notions of cognition as socially situated activity? (2) How can we use longitudinal talk to show how participants demonstrably orient in speech event 2 (SE2) to a course of action that first occurred in speech event 1 (SE1)? And (3) how can we legitimately use exogenous (that is, talk-external) cultural artifacts (here, a Power Point presentation and a self-evaluation form) as resources for analyzing language learning behavior?
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 602-615 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2011 |
Keywords
- Conversation analysis
- Discursive psychology
- Ethnomethodology
- Second language acquisition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Artificial Intelligence