Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation by Filipi Anna;Markee Numa; & Numa Markee

Author:Filipi, Anna;Markee, Numa; & Numa Markee [Filipi, Anna & Markee, Numa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-10-09T07:48:47+00:00

In line 08, Amy concludes acting the scene in the grocery store with the gesture of returning something to the sales person. In line 09, Ira brings closure to scene 1 by disengaging from eye contact with Amy, laughing and starting to look down at her notes. Ira then produces a conjugal “oK(hi)ay” that is phonologically marked with partly increased loudness and laughter with breathiness. It is transitory and puts the action of rehearsing the dialogue on hold prefiguring orientation toward the next step (Beach 1993), which is the phone sequence. This is followed by a gesture of moving her hands up towards the phone but she keeps them in this transitory conjugal position, which signals that she is ready to start the phone scene. However, she is still looking at her notes and does not start to talk, possibly searching for her lines to speak. In doing so, she positions herself as someone who knows which scene comes next but is searching for her lines because, according to the script and how the interaction unfolds, it is her turn to start scene 2. Amy’s reaction in line 10 first indicates that she understands Ira’s “okay” accompanied by the hand-gesture as an English task-oriented “okay” rather than an “okay” spoken by Ira’s character. In her turn, Amy responds with an English task-oriented assistance for Ira, which also indicates that she understood Ira’s previous turn as a search for her character’s lines.

In line 10 Amy starts with a question that is cut off (“so is it-,”) and that is possibly the start of “so is it your turn” or “so it is the phone scene next”. Amy’s “okay” can be heard as backward-oriented in the sense that it could be a response to Ira’s “okay” (line 09); i.e., also confirming that they have now finished the first scene. It can also be heard as forward-oriented in that it prefigures providing guidance. Amy is doing face-work (Goffman 1999); she is managing the relationship by re-interpreting Ira’s “okay” as an index for the end of the activity rather than pointing out that Ira cannot find her lines in German. At the same time, she is dealing with the interactional problem of Ira not taking her turn to speak her German lines during this transition. Amy assists Ira in finding her German lines by allowing her more time and by stating the context for the next scene (“now we are on the phone”). Through this action and the preceding “okay”, Amy positions Ira as capable of producing her lines. Ira’s “OH Yeah” in line 11, loudly produced with upward intonation, signals a change-of-state in information (Heritage 1984a), namely from non-knowing to now-knowing. The new information does not lie in the fact that the next scene is a phone conversation because Ira produced the phone gesture before and because her turn comes in overlap with Amy’s. Rather, the new information is that Ira found her lines and now switches to German to continue the rehearsal of the role-play.

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