Doing conversation analysis: Investigating Avoidance Strategy

Numa Markee

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Abstract

Avoidance is one of the oldest strategies identified in cognitive second language acquisition. Since participants are hiding that they are avoiding using a particular item of language, behavioral methodologies that normally do not use introspection might seem ill-equipped to identify dissimulation. However (based on Markee, 2011), I show here how avoidance can be respecified and productively re-analyzed by using a longitudinal CA methodology (see Markee, 2008) to trace how: (1) ethnographic data that are “talked into relevance” by participants can be used to demonstrate how avoidance is verbally achieved in real time over time; and (2) based on feedback from an anonymous reviewer, how CA methods can also identify how different participants can simultaneously pursue conflicting agendas.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLess Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics
EditorsA Mehdi Riazi
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Chapter7
Pages111-126
ISBN (Electronic)9789027249210
ISBN (Print)9789027214423 , 9789027214416
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

Publication series

NameResearch Methods in Applied Linguistics
Volume6
ISSN (Print)2590-096X

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