Johanna Rendle‐short
Biographic Data
| ID | 172108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Rendle‐short |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rendle‐short |
| SIGNATURE | SHORT J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4916-1118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Showing structure: Using um in the academic seminar
Um and uh are generally considered to be indicative of dysfluency and uncertainty in speech production. However, analysis of the academic seminar indicates that the distribution of um and uh is not random. In specific well-defined environments um is used to indicate the underlying structure of the talk. Although Swerts (1998) has already suggested that fillers such as um and uh could be treated as discourse markers in Dutch, the notion that such …
Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: Adults' use of tag questions directed to the child
Children's agency in their own lives is increasingly recognised as important, including within paediatric health care. The issue of acknowledging child agency is complex in the context of paediatric palliative care, where children have serious and complex conditions that often impact their ability to verbally communicate with others. This study explores how clinicians and parents/guardians direct talk towards a child patient when they are present…
Analysing atypical interaction: Reflections on the intersection between quantitative and qualitative research
Journalist questions: Comparing adversarialness in Chinese political press conferences
Accomplishing a Continuing Relationship in Psychotherapy: Updates and the Role of Time References
This paper examines how participants in psychotherapy reconnect at the beginning of psychotherapy sessions through ‘updates’, and the role of time references in managing this activity stage. Drawing on 18 sessions from a corpus of 123 audio-recorded sessions between one client and her therapist over the course of two years and utilizing principles of conversation analysis, we show how the client updates the therapist near the beginning of session…
Intersubjectivity or Preference: Interpreting Student Pauses in Supervisory Meetings
This paper focuses on supervision in the context of higher education. It highlights the interactional complexities inherent in regular supervisory meetings between supervisor and student as they negotiate the institutional goal of achieving a successful PhD outcome. Close analysis of supervisory meetings shows that students sometimes pause following their supervisor's talk, when a response or an uptake is due. The question for supervisors, especi…
Speaking to Twin Children: Evidence Against the “Impoverishment” Thesis
It is often claimed that parents’ talk to twins is less rich than talk to singletons and that this delays their language development. This case study suggests that talk to twins need not be impoverished. We identify highly sophisticated ways in which a mother responds to her 4-year-old twin children, both individually and jointly, as a way of ensuring an inclusive interactional environment. She uses gaze to demonstrate concurrent recipiency in re…
Dispreferred responses when texting: Delaying that ‘no’ response
Socially, people find it difficult to say ‘no’ to requests or invitations. In spoken interaction (face-to-face), we orient to this difficulty through the design of our responses. An agreement response (preferred) is characteristically said straightaway with minimal gap between request and response. A disagreement response (dispreferred) is characteristically delayed through silence and by prefacing the disagreement turn with tokens such as ‘well’…
Aligning in and through interaction: Children getting in and out of spontaneous activity
Spontaneous play, important for forming the basis of friendships and peer relations, is a complex activity involving the management and production of talk-in-interaction. This article focuses on the intricacies of social interaction, emphasizing the link between alignment and affiliation, and the range and importance of verbal and nonverbal interactive devices available to children. Analysis of the way in which two girls, one of whom has been dia…
Ser and estar: Corrective input to children’s errors of the Spanish copula verbs
Evidence for the role of corrective input as a facilitator of language acquisition is inconclusive. Studies show links between corrective input and grammatical use of some, but not other, language structures. The present study examined relationships between corrective parental input and children’s errors in the acquisition of the Spanish copula verbs ser and estar. Spontaneous speech production data from 10 Chilean children (mean age 2;6, age ran…
Taking an Interactional Perspective: Examining Children's Talk in the Australian Aboriginal Community of Yakanarra
Understanding how children of different ages and different cultures design and organize their talk allows us to better understand how children demonstrate intersubjectivity, how they structure their social world, and how they orient to social and cultural practices. Although researchers are beginning to re-examine interactionally some of the previous observational claims concerning adult Aboriginal conversational style, less focus has been given …
Mate' as a term of address in ordinary interaction
A Conversation Analysis View of Communication as Jointly Accomplished Social Interaction: An Unsuccessful Proposal for a Social Visit
Conversation analysis (CA) focuses on the language, practices and competencies by which people accomplish social actions to create and understand ordinary social life. CA uses naturally occurring data, examining micro-detailed transcriptions from recordings of ordinary interactions. This paper highlights some principles, methods, and insights of CA. We consider a short segment of transcribed phone conversation in which one participant proposes a …
The Address Term Mate in Australian English: Is it Still a Masculine Term
The concepts of mate and mateship have been held up as quintessentially Australian, encapsulating all that it might mean to be Australian, including such ideas as having a fair go, camaraderie, working together. Although the address term mate (as in How ya going mate?) is generally included in discussions of mate and mateship, very little analysis of how it is actually used in Australian English has been carried out. This preliminary study focuse…
That's So Gay’: A Contemporary Use of Gay in Australian English
Recently, a different usage of the word gay has appeared in Australian English. In addition to the earlier meaning of gay being ‘happy’, ‘carefree’ and ‘frivolous’ (1st meaning), and to a later meaning of gay being synonymous with ‘homosexual’ (2nd meaning), it appears that gay is now being understood by young people to mean ‘stupid’, ‘lame’ or ‘boring’, as in ‘That shirt is so gay’, or ‘How gay is that?’ (3rd meaning). Two studies were performed…
Catherine, you're wasting your time: Address terms within the Australian political interview
I’ve got a paper-shuffler for a husband’: Indexing sexuality on talk-back radio
Indicating one’s sexuality is performed regularly and easily within everyday interaction, or more specifically, on talk-back radio to thousands of Radio National listeners across Australia. Such information is not simply gleaned indirectly via contextual references; rather it is referentially or directly indexed through other-person reference to wives, husbands or partners. Analysis of 20 talk-back radio programmes shows that callers index their …
Managing the Transitions Between Talk and Silence in the Academic Monologue
Analysis of the academic monologue shows that presenters do not talk nonstop for the duration of the presentation - they talk for a bit, pause, and then talk for a bit more. In other words, they divide their monologue into smaller "chunks" or sections of
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation Penelope Eckert and John R. Rickford, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 xvi; 341 pp
That's So Gay’: A Contemporary Use of Gay in Australian English
Recently, a different usage of the word gay has appeared in Australian English. In addition to the earlier meaning of gay being ‘happy’, ‘carefree’ and ‘frivolous’ (1st meaning), and to a later meaning of gay being synonymous with ‘homosexual’ (2nd meaning), it appears that gay is now being understood by young people to mean ‘stupid’, ‘lame’ or ‘boring’, as in ‘That shirt is so gay’, or ‘How gay is that?’ (3rd meaning). Two studies were performed…
Mate' as a term of address in ordinary interaction
Catherine, you're wasting your time: Address terms within the Australian political interview
The Address Term Mate in Australian English: Is it Still a Masculine Term
The concepts of mate and mateship have been held up as quintessentially Australian, encapsulating all that it might mean to be Australian, including such ideas as having a fair go, camaraderie, working together. Although the address term mate (as in How ya going mate?) is generally included in discussions of mate and mateship, very little analysis of how it is actually used in Australian English has been carried out. This preliminary study focuse…
I’ve got a paper-shuffler for a husband’: Indexing sexuality on talk-back radio
Indicating one’s sexuality is performed regularly and easily within everyday interaction, or more specifically, on talk-back radio to thousands of Radio National listeners across Australia. Such information is not simply gleaned indirectly via contextual references; rather it is referentially or directly indexed through other-person reference to wives, husbands or partners. Analysis of 20 talk-back radio programmes shows that callers index their …
Journalist questions: Comparing adversarialness in Chinese political press conferences
Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: Adults' use of tag questions directed to the child
Children's agency in their own lives is increasingly recognised as important, including within paediatric health care. The issue of acknowledging child agency is complex in the context of paediatric palliative care, where children have serious and complex conditions that often impact their ability to verbally communicate with others. This study explores how clinicians and parents/guardians direct talk towards a child patient when they are present…
Dispreferred responses when texting: Delaying that ‘no’ response
Socially, people find it difficult to say ‘no’ to requests or invitations. In spoken interaction (face-to-face), we orient to this difficulty through the design of our responses. An agreement response (preferred) is characteristically said straightaway with minimal gap between request and response. A disagreement response (dispreferred) is characteristically delayed through silence and by prefacing the disagreement turn with tokens such as ‘well’…
A Conversation Analysis View of Communication as Jointly Accomplished Social Interaction: An Unsuccessful Proposal for a Social Visit
Conversation analysis (CA) focuses on the language, practices and competencies by which people accomplish social actions to create and understand ordinary social life. CA uses naturally occurring data, examining micro-detailed transcriptions from recordings of ordinary interactions. This paper highlights some principles, methods, and insights of CA. We consider a short segment of transcribed phone conversation in which one participant proposes a …
Analysing atypical interaction: Reflections on the intersection between quantitative and qualitative research
Aligning in and through interaction: Children getting in and out of spontaneous activity
Spontaneous play, important for forming the basis of friendships and peer relations, is a complex activity involving the management and production of talk-in-interaction. This article focuses on the intricacies of social interaction, emphasizing the link between alignment and affiliation, and the range and importance of verbal and nonverbal interactive devices available to children. Analysis of the way in which two girls, one of whom has been dia…
Accomplishing a Continuing Relationship in Psychotherapy: Updates and the Role of Time References
This paper examines how participants in psychotherapy reconnect at the beginning of psychotherapy sessions through ‘updates’, and the role of time references in managing this activity stage. Drawing on 18 sessions from a corpus of 123 audio-recorded sessions between one client and her therapist over the course of two years and utilizing principles of conversation analysis, we show how the client updates the therapist near the beginning of session…
Intersubjectivity or Preference: Interpreting Student Pauses in Supervisory Meetings
This paper focuses on supervision in the context of higher education. It highlights the interactional complexities inherent in regular supervisory meetings between supervisor and student as they negotiate the institutional goal of achieving a successful PhD outcome. Close analysis of supervisory meetings shows that students sometimes pause following their supervisor's talk, when a response or an uptake is due. The question for supervisors, especi…
Taking an Interactional Perspective: Examining Children's Talk in the Australian Aboriginal Community of Yakanarra
Understanding how children of different ages and different cultures design and organize their talk allows us to better understand how children demonstrate intersubjectivity, how they structure their social world, and how they orient to social and cultural practices. Although researchers are beginning to re-examine interactionally some of the previous observational claims concerning adult Aboriginal conversational style, less focus has been given …
Managing the Transitions Between Talk and Silence in the Academic Monologue
Analysis of the academic monologue shows that presenters do not talk nonstop for the duration of the presentation - they talk for a bit, pause, and then talk for a bit more. In other words, they divide their monologue into smaller "chunks" or sections of
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation Penelope Eckert and John R. Rickford, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 xvi; 341 pp
I’ve got a paper-shuffler for a husband’: Indexing sexuality on talk-back radio
Indicating one’s sexuality is performed regularly and easily within everyday interaction, or more specifically, on talk-back radio to thousands of Radio National listeners across Australia. Such information is not simply gleaned indirectly via contextual references; rather it is referentially or directly indexed through other-person reference to wives, husbands or partners. Analysis of 20 talk-back radio programmes shows that callers index their …
Managing the Transitions Between Talk and Silence in the Academic Monologue
Analysis of the academic monologue shows that presenters do not talk nonstop for the duration of the presentation - they talk for a bit, pause, and then talk for a bit more. In other words, they divide their monologue into smaller "chunks" or sections of
That's So Gay’: A Contemporary Use of Gay in Australian English
Recently, a different usage of the word gay has appeared in Australian English. In addition to the earlier meaning of gay being ‘happy’, ‘carefree’ and ‘frivolous’ (1st meaning), and to a later meaning of gay being synonymous with ‘homosexual’ (2nd meaning), it appears that gay is now being understood by young people to mean ‘stupid’, ‘lame’ or ‘boring’, as in ‘That shirt is so gay’, or ‘How gay is that?’ (3rd meaning). Two studies were performed…
Catherine, you're wasting your time: Address terms within the Australian political interview
A Conversation Analysis View of Communication as Jointly Accomplished Social Interaction: An Unsuccessful Proposal for a Social Visit
Conversation analysis (CA) focuses on the language, practices and competencies by which people accomplish social actions to create and understand ordinary social life. CA uses naturally occurring data, examining micro-detailed transcriptions from recordings of ordinary interactions. This paper highlights some principles, methods, and insights of CA. We consider a short segment of transcribed phone conversation in which one participant proposes a …
The Address Term Mate in Australian English: Is it Still a Masculine Term
The concepts of mate and mateship have been held up as quintessentially Australian, encapsulating all that it might mean to be Australian, including such ideas as having a fair go, camaraderie, working together. Although the address term mate (as in How ya going mate?) is generally included in discussions of mate and mateship, very little analysis of how it is actually used in Australian English has been carried out. This preliminary study focuse…
Taking an Interactional Perspective: Examining Children's Talk in the Australian Aboriginal Community of Yakanarra
Understanding how children of different ages and different cultures design and organize their talk allows us to better understand how children demonstrate intersubjectivity, how they structure their social world, and how they orient to social and cultural practices. Although researchers are beginning to re-examine interactionally some of the previous observational claims concerning adult Aboriginal conversational style, less focus has been given …
Mate' as a term of address in ordinary interaction
Ser and estar: Corrective input to children’s errors of the Spanish copula verbs
Evidence for the role of corrective input as a facilitator of language acquisition is inconclusive. Studies show links between corrective input and grammatical use of some, but not other, language structures. The present study examined relationships between corrective parental input and children’s errors in the acquisition of the Spanish copula verbs ser and estar. Spontaneous speech production data from 10 Chilean children (mean age 2;6, age ran…
Aligning in and through interaction: Children getting in and out of spontaneous activity
Spontaneous play, important for forming the basis of friendships and peer relations, is a complex activity involving the management and production of talk-in-interaction. This article focuses on the intricacies of social interaction, emphasizing the link between alignment and affiliation, and the range and importance of verbal and nonverbal interactive devices available to children. Analysis of the way in which two girls, one of whom has been dia…
Speaking to Twin Children: Evidence Against the “Impoverishment” Thesis
It is often claimed that parents’ talk to twins is less rich than talk to singletons and that this delays their language development. This case study suggests that talk to twins need not be impoverished. We identify highly sophisticated ways in which a mother responds to her 4-year-old twin children, both individually and jointly, as a way of ensuring an inclusive interactional environment. She uses gaze to demonstrate concurrent recipiency in re…
Dispreferred responses when texting: Delaying that ‘no’ response
Socially, people find it difficult to say ‘no’ to requests or invitations. In spoken interaction (face-to-face), we orient to this difficulty through the design of our responses. An agreement response (preferred) is characteristically said straightaway with minimal gap between request and response. A disagreement response (dispreferred) is characteristically delayed through silence and by prefacing the disagreement turn with tokens such as ‘well’…
Journalist questions: Comparing adversarialness in Chinese political press conferences
Accomplishing a Continuing Relationship in Psychotherapy: Updates and the Role of Time References
This paper examines how participants in psychotherapy reconnect at the beginning of psychotherapy sessions through ‘updates’, and the role of time references in managing this activity stage. Drawing on 18 sessions from a corpus of 123 audio-recorded sessions between one client and her therapist over the course of two years and utilizing principles of conversation analysis, we show how the client updates the therapist near the beginning of session…
Intersubjectivity or Preference: Interpreting Student Pauses in Supervisory Meetings
This paper focuses on supervision in the context of higher education. It highlights the interactional complexities inherent in regular supervisory meetings between supervisor and student as they negotiate the institutional goal of achieving a successful PhD outcome. Close analysis of supervisory meetings shows that students sometimes pause following their supervisor's talk, when a response or an uptake is due. The question for supervisors, especi…
Analysing atypical interaction: Reflections on the intersection between quantitative and qualitative research
Showing structure: Using um in the academic seminar
Um and uh are generally considered to be indicative of dysfluency and uncertainty in speech production. However, analysis of the academic seminar indicates that the distribution of um and uh is not random. In specific well-defined environments um is used to indicate the underlying structure of the talk. Although Swerts (1998) has already suggested that fillers such as um and uh could be treated as discourse markers in Dutch, the notion that such …
Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: Adults' use of tag questions directed to the child
Children's agency in their own lives is increasingly recognised as important, including within paediatric health care. The issue of acknowledging child agency is complex in the context of paediatric palliative care, where children have serious and complex conditions that often impact their ability to verbally communicate with others. This study explores how clinicians and parents/guardians direct talk towards a child patient when they are present…
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