Referring to past actions in caregiver–child interaction in Japanese
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https://doi.org/10.1558/rcsi.37384Keywords:
caregiver–child interaction, reference to past actions, conversation analysis, co-construction of tellingAbstract
In naturally occurring everyday caregiver–child interaction, a major part of what is hearable as storytelling or an incipient form of it is talk about participants’ (mostly children’s) past experiences. Adopting a conversation-analytic approach, this study attempts to show how explicit references to children’s past actions formulated in the form of [(X) did (Y)], where X is the young child interacting with the caregiver, can engender opportunities for participants to develop telling activities. Through the detailed analysis of talk and embodied features of telling sequences in each case, the analysis will reveal how the [(X) did (Y)]-format utterance is utilized for co-constructing the telling, and what social and interactional consequences are accomplished through the telling occasioned by such reference.
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Goodwin, C. (1984) Notes on Story Structure and the Organization of Participation. In M. J. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Eds.), Structures of Social Action(pp. 225-246). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Goodwin, M. H. (1990). He-said-she-said: Talk as social organization among black children. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Haden, A. C., Haine, R. A. and Fivush, R. (1997). Developing narrative structure in parent-child reminiscing across the preschool years. Developmental Psychology, 33(2), 295-307.
Hayano, K. (2011). Claiming epistemic primacy: Yo-marked assessments in Japanese. In T. Stivers, L. Mondada & J. Steensig (Eds.), The morality of knowledge in conversation(pp. 58-81). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heritage, J. (2012): The epistemic engine: Sequence organization and territories of knowledge. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45(1), 30-52.
Jefferson, G. (1978). Sequential aspects of story telling in conversation. In J.N. Schenkein (Ed.),Studies in the organization of conversational interaction.(pp. 213-248). New York: Academic Press.
Labov, W. (1972). Language in the inner city. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press.
Labov, W. (1982). Speech actions and reactions in personal narrative. In D. Tannen (Ed.), Analyzing discourse: Text and talk (pp. 219- 247). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Labov, W. &Waletzky,J. (1967). Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experiences. In J. Helm (Ed.), Essays on the verbal and visual arts(pp. 12-44). Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Mandelbaum, J. (2013) Storytelling in conversation. In J. Sidnell and T. Stivers (Eds.), The Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Maynard, D. W. (2003).Bad News, Good News: Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Clinical settings. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Miller, P. J. and Sperry, L. L. (1988). Early talk about the past: the origins of conversational stories of personal experience.Journal of Child Language 15, 293-315.
Morita, E. (2005). Negotiation of contingent talk: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa.Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Morita, E. and Takagi, T. (2018) Marking “commitment to undertaking of the task at hand”: Initiating responses with eetoin Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 124, 31-49.
Preece, A. (1987). The rage of narrative forms conversationally produced by young children. Journal of Child Language 14,353-373.
Sachs, J. (1983). Talking about the there and then: the emergence of displaced reference in parent-child discourse. In K.E. Nelson (Ed.), Children’s Language. Vol. 4, New York: Gardner Press.
Sidnell, J. (2006). Coordinating gesture, talk, and gaze in reenactments. Research on Language and Social Interaction 39(4), 377-409.
Stivers, T. (2008). Stance, alignment and affiliation during storytelling: when nodding is a token of affiliation. Research on Language and Social Interaction 41 (1), 31–57.
Tanaka, H. (2000). The particle neas a turn-management device in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 32(8), 1135-1176.
Takagi, T. and Morita, E. (2015).‘‘Eeto’’ niyotte kaishisareru ootoo(Eeto-prefaced responses in Japanese conversation). Japanese Journal of Language in Society 18(1), 93-110.
Takagi, T. and Morita, E. (2018). Soogo kooi shigentoshite no “Anoo” oyobi “sonoo”(Anoo and sonooas interactional resources). Paper presented at the 41th Meeting of Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences. Toyo University, Japan.
Theobald, M. (2016). Achieving competence: The interactional features of children’s storytelling. Childhood, 23(1), 87-104.
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2019-08-29
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Takagi, T. (2019). Referring to past actions in caregiver–child interaction in Japanese. Research on Children and Social Interaction, 3(1-2), 92-118. https://doi.org/10.1558/rcsi.37384
