In this study, I examine how resistance is shaped by participants in an Arabic immersion program. Using ethnomethodology, I defined resistance by how contributions by students aligned or disaligned with the local social organization, and by extension, the work of the classroom, …
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This study examines biases against the use of Nigerian Pidgin English in social settings. It also compares the usage between those who speak the preferred Standard English versus those who speak the Nonstandard English, Nigerian Pidgin English by analyzing the conversations betw…
This thesis examines a previously unstudied site of interaction: the constituency office. At the constituency office, Members of Parliament (MPs) hold MP surgeries , during which they help constituents to solve their personal difficulties. This thesis provides the first analysis…
This thesis puts forward a strong argument for why more up-to-date interactional research is needed into disputes and why disciplines, methodological approaches and theories should come second to the phenomenon. This thesis investigates how people behave in disputes. Disputes ar…
This thesis examines interactions between professionals and children who have been identified as having social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). More specifically, this thesis examines video-recorded interactions that take place during the delivery of two interven…
Experiences of presence are common in bereavement. The bereaved person may see the deceased, hear their familiar voice, or otherwise feel they are close at hand. But although common, they are experiences not without controversy. They have come under a variety of descriptions, fr…
This thesis is an ethnography of the phenomenon of self-help. It begins by noting a problematic at the centre of the topic: the term self-help connotes, on the one hand, an autonomous agent ("self'), and on the other, a reliance on other agents ("help"). More substantively, the …
This thesis is a conversation analytic investigation of the social organisation of talk in telephone and computer-mediated calls to NHS Direct, a telephone health helpline in England. The data represent fifty-six routinely audio recorded telephone consultations between nurses an…
This dissertation is an conversation analytical study on the sequential organization of politeness in native-nonnative speakers' interaction. The Persian politeness phenomenon of taarof was identified and analyzed in telephone conversation openings and offers. Taarof is a system…