Discourse Markers in Doctoral Supervision Sessions by Samira Bakeer;

Author:Samira Bakeer;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000954579
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
Published: 2023-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

6 Case study 1 Supervisory discourse in an English studies domain

DOI: 10.4324/9781003184072-6

The preceding chapter has examined DMs (Discourse Markers) from a CL (corpus linguistics) perspective and identified key differences in the distribution and functional categories of the items and their accompanying gestures, not only with respect to the institutional role of the participants (supervisor versus student) but also in the interactions across the two cases. Yet, it is widely recognised that the meaning of DMs is principally complex and context-sensitive which might not lend itself to analysis by merely applying decontextualised and top-down categorisation approaches (Pichler & Hesson, 2016; Schleef, 2008; Verdonik, 2015). Adopting a variational perspective (Aijmer, 2013), the aim of this chapter (and the following ones) is to circumvent this issue by further contextualising DMs in the view of the participants’ institutional role, relationship, and the goal orientation of the setting under study. The results of such analysis have the potential of triangulating the data sources (Creswell & Miller, 2000), enhancing the ecological validity of the data (Bryman, 2016) and achieving integration in data analysis (Bazeley, 2009).

This chapter takes as a focal point the dyadic interactions between Student 1‒Supervisor 1 (ST1‒SP1). As mentioned earlier (Section 3.4.1), the data for these sessions were collected at the School of English and during the first year of the doctoral programme. The general focus of the meetings was on developing the methodology, finalising the DCT (Discourse-Completion Task), and the activities to be used for the main study which is intended to examine “the polysemy of single-word verbs and phrasal verbs”. The following sections will present and discuss the salient functions of the most frequent DMs as used by ST1 and SP1 respectively. Based on detailed analyses of a number of extracts with an inspection of the relevant discourse contexts, the analysis will simultaneously demonstrate how recurring prosodic and nonverbal signals can contribute to the disambiguation and understanding of the interactional functions of DMs. The last section provides a brief summary of the chapter.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.