Cecilia E Ford
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 659226 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cecilia E Ford |
| NOMBRES | Cecilia E |
| APELLIDO | Ford |
| FIRMA | FORD C E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Conversation Analysis and Turn Taking
Turn taking refers to a system through which interlocutors manage transfer of speakership, with each next turn in sequence displaying how that speaker has interpreted previous talk and the action so far.
Causal markers in Japanese and English conversations
Preview this article: Causal markers in Japanese and English conversations: A cross-linguistic study of interactional grammar, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.4.1.03for-1.gif
Practices in the construction of turns
This study began with a simple question that has been on our minds, indMdually and collectively, for some time: What are the basic units of talk-in-conversation? Units in conversation must be understood as usable for the construction of joint activities, not merely as packages of information to be parsed. Features of turn construction are adapted to such functions as displaying responsiveness to other turns and making interpretable contributions …
Interaction-based studies of language
The Grammar of Obviousness
This paper investigates the body’s role in grammar in argument sequences. Drawing from a database of public disputes on language use, we document the work of the palm-up gesture in action formation. Using conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, we show how this gesture is an interactional resource that indexes a particular epistemic stance—namely to cast the proposition being advanced as obvious. In this report, we focus on instances…
Laughter and the management of divergent positions in peer review interactions
Difficult Dialogues
Diversity training is challenging and can evoke strong emotional responses from participants including resistance, shame, confusion, powerlessness, defensiveness, and anger. These responses create complex situations for both presenters and other learners. We observed 3 experienced presenters as they implemented 41 gender bias literacy workshops for 376 faculty from 42 STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) departments at …
The Effect of an Intervention to Break the Gender Bias Habit for Faculty at One Institution
PURPOSE: Despite sincere commitment to egalitarian, meritocratic principles, subtle gender bias persists, constraining women's opportunities for academic advancement. The authors implemented a pair-matched, single-blind, cluster randomized, controlled study of a gender-bias-habit-changing intervention at a large public university. METHOD: Participants were faculty in 92 departments or divisions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Between Sept…
Bodily-Visual Practices and Turn Continuation
This paper considers points in turn construction where conversation researchers have shown that talk routinely continues beyond possible turn completion, but where we find bodily-visual behavior doing such turn extension work. The bodily-visual behaviors we examine share many features with verbal turn extensions, but we argue that embodied movements have distinct properties that make them well-suited for specific kinds of social action, including…
Securing recipiency in workplace meetings
As multiparty interactions with single courses of coordinated action, workplace meetings place particular interactional demands on participants who are not primary speakers (e.g. not chairs) as they work to initiate turns and to interactively coordinate with displays of recipiency from co-participants. Drawing from a corpus of 26 hours of videotaped workplace meetings in a midsized US city, this article reports on multimodal practices – phonetic,…
Clarity in applied and interdisciplinary conversation analysis
Acknowledging the perils of interdisciplinary and applied conversation analysis, this essay argues for clarity in articulating relationships between methods, addressing, in particular, the language used to formulate claims regarding how participants’ post hoc reflections relate to findings from CA analyses
Questioning in Meetings
This chapter, written by Cecilia Ford, investigates interactions in the workplace, focusing on workplace meetings. The investigation considers questions produced by the meetings' “nonprimary” speakers, that is, “persons with no current special hold on the floor.” Ford argues that questions asked by such participants can function to shift local participation dynamics. She demonstrates that when a nonprimary speaker asks a question, the primary spe…
Sound Patterns in Interaction
This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in talk-in-interaction based on data drawn from diverse languages: Japanese, English, Finnish, and German, as well as from diverse speakers: children, fluent adult…
Contingency and Units in Interaction
Starting with Houtkoop and Mazeland's (1985) study of discourse units, and touching upon recent studies aimed at detailing unit projection in interaction, this article argues that the drive toward abstract and discrete models for units and unit projection is potentially misleading. While it has been established that to engage in talk-in-interaction, as it unfolds in real time, participants rely on projectable units (Sacks et al., 1974, 1978), res…
The Language of Turn and Sequence
This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversation analysis (CA) approach to understanding language use. CA is the dominant theory for analyzing the social use of language and is concerned with the description of how speakers engage in conversation and other forms of social interaction involving language. Its proponents are not only linguists but sociologists and anthropologists as well. The unifying theme…
The language of turn and sequence
Constituency and the Grammar of Turn Increments
Much work in linguistics of the last fifty years has relied on the notion of grammatical “constituents,” hierarchically organized groups of words and phrases. Since the 1930s, “constituent” has generally been. understood as a schematic group of words which is: This two-part understanding of constituent incorporates both the insight that a “constituent” is a part of a larger element (I) and the insight that it has internal coherence (2). The notio…
The treatment of contrasts in interaction
The treatment of contrasts in interaction
Collaborative Construction of Task Activity
This article documents the collaborative coordination of multiple resources—talk, gesture, and writing—as represented in the interaction among 3 high school seniors working on a physics laboratory task. Through the close analysis of the moment-to-moment construction of task, this study draws attention to complex yet taken-for-granted practices that are integral to thinking and acting in the ubiquitous context of laboratory activities. In line wit…
Interactional units in conversation
Introduction The research reported in this chapter is intended as a contribution to an understanding of the basic linguistic units used by speakers in spontaneous communication. Our interest is in the linguistic factors associated with the split-second timing of next turn onset that has been documented in conversation analytic literature (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson, 1974; Jefferson, 1973; Wilson and Zimmerman, 1986). In the past two decades,…
Grammar in Interaction
Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists use …
The Influence of Speech Variety on Teachers' Evaluation of Students with Comparable Academic Ability
This study considers teachers' evaluations of students who perform equivalently in written academic work but who have distinct speech varieties. Stimulus materials to which teachers were asked to react were collected from third and fourth graders in schools in the Southwest of the United States. The materials included speech samples (some of which exhibited Spanish-influenced English and some of which did not) and writing samples which exhibited …
Contingency and Units in Interaction
Starting with Houtkoop and Mazeland's (1985) study of discourse units, and touching upon recent studies aimed at detailing unit projection in interaction, this article argues that the drive toward abstract and discrete models for units and unit projection is potentially misleading. While it has been established that to engage in talk-in-interaction, as it unfolds in real time, participants rely on projectable units (Sacks et al., 1974, 1978), res…
Securing recipiency in workplace meetings
As multiparty interactions with single courses of coordinated action, workplace meetings place particular interactional demands on participants who are not primary speakers (e.g. not chairs) as they work to initiate turns and to interactively coordinate with displays of recipiency from co-participants. Drawing from a corpus of 26 hours of videotaped workplace meetings in a midsized US city, this article reports on multimodal practices – phonetic,…
Bodily-Visual Practices and Turn Continuation
This paper considers points in turn construction where conversation researchers have shown that talk routinely continues beyond possible turn completion, but where we find bodily-visual behavior doing such turn extension work. The bodily-visual behaviors we examine share many features with verbal turn extensions, but we argue that embodied movements have distinct properties that make them well-suited for specific kinds of social action, including…
Laughter and the management of divergent positions in peer review interactions
Collaborative Construction of Task Activity
This article documents the collaborative coordination of multiple resources—talk, gesture, and writing—as represented in the interaction among 3 high school seniors working on a physics laboratory task. Through the close analysis of the moment-to-moment construction of task, this study draws attention to complex yet taken-for-granted practices that are integral to thinking and acting in the ubiquitous context of laboratory activities. In line wit…
Difficult Dialogues
Diversity training is challenging and can evoke strong emotional responses from participants including resistance, shame, confusion, powerlessness, defensiveness, and anger. These responses create complex situations for both presenters and other learners. We observed 3 experienced presenters as they implemented 41 gender bias literacy workshops for 376 faculty from 42 STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) departments at …
Clarity in applied and interdisciplinary conversation analysis
Acknowledging the perils of interdisciplinary and applied conversation analysis, this essay argues for clarity in articulating relationships between methods, addressing, in particular, the language used to formulate claims regarding how participants’ post hoc reflections relate to findings from CA analyses
The Influence of Speech Variety on Teachers' Evaluation of Students with Comparable Academic Ability
This study considers teachers' evaluations of students who perform equivalently in written academic work but who have distinct speech varieties. Stimulus materials to which teachers were asked to react were collected from third and fourth graders in schools in the Southwest of the United States. The materials included speech samples (some of which exhibited Spanish-influenced English and some of which did not) and writing samples which exhibited …
Grammar in Interaction
Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists use …
Interactional units in conversation
Introduction The research reported in this chapter is intended as a contribution to an understanding of the basic linguistic units used by speakers in spontaneous communication. Our interest is in the linguistic factors associated with the split-second timing of next turn onset that has been documented in conversation analytic literature (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson, 1974; Jefferson, 1973; Wilson and Zimmerman, 1986). In the past two decades,…
Collaborative Construction of Task Activity
This article documents the collaborative coordination of multiple resources—talk, gesture, and writing—as represented in the interaction among 3 high school seniors working on a physics laboratory task. Through the close analysis of the moment-to-moment construction of task, this study draws attention to complex yet taken-for-granted practices that are integral to thinking and acting in the ubiquitous context of laboratory activities. In line wit…
The treatment of contrasts in interaction
The treatment of contrasts in interaction
The Language of Turn and Sequence
This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversation analysis (CA) approach to understanding language use. CA is the dominant theory for analyzing the social use of language and is concerned with the description of how speakers engage in conversation and other forms of social interaction involving language. Its proponents are not only linguists but sociologists and anthropologists as well. The unifying theme…
The language of turn and sequence
Constituency and the Grammar of Turn Increments
Much work in linguistics of the last fifty years has relied on the notion of grammatical “constituents,” hierarchically organized groups of words and phrases. Since the 1930s, “constituent” has generally been. understood as a schematic group of words which is: This two-part understanding of constituent incorporates both the insight that a “constituent” is a part of a larger element (I) and the insight that it has internal coherence (2). The notio…
Sound Patterns in Interaction
This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in talk-in-interaction based on data drawn from diverse languages: Japanese, English, Finnish, and German, as well as from diverse speakers: children, fluent adult…
Contingency and Units in Interaction
Starting with Houtkoop and Mazeland's (1985) study of discourse units, and touching upon recent studies aimed at detailing unit projection in interaction, this article argues that the drive toward abstract and discrete models for units and unit projection is potentially misleading. While it has been established that to engage in talk-in-interaction, as it unfolds in real time, participants rely on projectable units (Sacks et al., 1974, 1978), res…
Questioning in Meetings
This chapter, written by Cecilia Ford, investigates interactions in the workplace, focusing on workplace meetings. The investigation considers questions produced by the meetings' “nonprimary” speakers, that is, “persons with no current special hold on the floor.” Ford argues that questions asked by such participants can function to shift local participation dynamics. She demonstrates that when a nonprimary speaker asks a question, the primary spe…
Bodily-Visual Practices and Turn Continuation
This paper considers points in turn construction where conversation researchers have shown that talk routinely continues beyond possible turn completion, but where we find bodily-visual behavior doing such turn extension work. The bodily-visual behaviors we examine share many features with verbal turn extensions, but we argue that embodied movements have distinct properties that make them well-suited for specific kinds of social action, including…
Securing recipiency in workplace meetings
As multiparty interactions with single courses of coordinated action, workplace meetings place particular interactional demands on participants who are not primary speakers (e.g. not chairs) as they work to initiate turns and to interactively coordinate with displays of recipiency from co-participants. Drawing from a corpus of 26 hours of videotaped workplace meetings in a midsized US city, this article reports on multimodal practices – phonetic,…
Clarity in applied and interdisciplinary conversation analysis
Acknowledging the perils of interdisciplinary and applied conversation analysis, this essay argues for clarity in articulating relationships between methods, addressing, in particular, the language used to formulate claims regarding how participants’ post hoc reflections relate to findings from CA analyses
The Effect of an Intervention to Break the Gender Bias Habit for Faculty at One Institution
PURPOSE: Despite sincere commitment to egalitarian, meritocratic principles, subtle gender bias persists, constraining women's opportunities for academic advancement. The authors implemented a pair-matched, single-blind, cluster randomized, controlled study of a gender-bias-habit-changing intervention at a large public university. METHOD: Participants were faculty in 92 departments or divisions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Between Sept…
Difficult Dialogues
Diversity training is challenging and can evoke strong emotional responses from participants including resistance, shame, confusion, powerlessness, defensiveness, and anger. These responses create complex situations for both presenters and other learners. We observed 3 experienced presenters as they implemented 41 gender bias literacy workshops for 376 faculty from 42 STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) departments at …
Laughter and the management of divergent positions in peer review interactions
The Grammar of Obviousness
This paper investigates the body’s role in grammar in argument sequences. Drawing from a database of public disputes on language use, we document the work of the palm-up gesture in action formation. Using conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, we show how this gesture is an interactional resource that indexes a particular epistemic stance—namely to cast the proposition being advanced as obvious. In this report, we focus on instances…
Causal markers in Japanese and English conversations
Preview this article: Causal markers in Japanese and English conversations: A cross-linguistic study of interactional grammar, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.4.1.03for-1.gif
Practices in the construction of turns
This study began with a simple question that has been on our minds, indMdually and collectively, for some time: What are the basic units of talk-in-conversation? Units in conversation must be understood as usable for the construction of joint activities, not merely as packages of information to be parsed. Features of turn construction are adapted to such functions as displaying responsiveness to other turns and making interpretable contributions …
Interaction-based studies of language
Conversation Analysis and Turn Taking
Turn taking refers to a system through which interlocutors manage transfer of speakership, with each next turn in sequence displaying how that speaker has interpreted previous talk and the action so far.
Psychology (17 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Linguistics (13 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Conversation analysis (9 obras) · Conversation (8 obras) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 obras)