1. How are ‘institutional’ contexts constituted or created in our everyday lives? Do institutional contexts primarily exist in physical features of a setting that are exogenous to social interaction and independent of social actors (e.g., buildings, uniforms, instruments/tools)? Or are institutional contexts created and maintained endogenously through social interaction? Explain your answer with an example. 2. What are three fundamental assumptions of conversation analysis (CA)? 3. What are the properties of adjacency pairs? How do they structure (i) action, and (ii) the understanding of action? Does the adjacency pair concept/rule describe: an empirical invariance, or a statistical regularity, or a social norm? 4. Why do interactants acknowledge answers to questions with ‘oh’? What interactional work do speakers use ‘oh’ to do? 5. Why don’t (i) doctors, (ii) news interviewers, (iii) teachers and (iv) lawyers in court acknowledge answers to questions with ‘oh’? Are the considerations impacting this avoidance the same or different across these different settings? 6. What are the three main overarching characteristics of institutional talk, and how do the practices of institutional talk generally relate to those of ordinary conversation? 7. What are the six main analytic areas you can examine to find these three main overarching characteristics (from question #6)? 8. Where do you tend to find special turn-taking systems in institutional talk? 9. What are the four main kinds of interactional asymmetries that tend to exist between lay and professional persons in institutional interaction? 10. What is ‘institutional euphemism’ and ‘professional cautiousness’? Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: social interaction institutional contexts conversation analysis Student has agreed that all tutoring, explanations, and answers provided by the tutor will be used to help in the learning process and in accordance with our company’shonor code & terms of service.
