Many have proposed that autobiographical stories do more than describe a pre-existing self. Sometimes narrators can change who they are, in part, by telling stories about themselves. But how does this narrative self-construction happen? Most explanations rely on the representational function of autobiographical discourse. These representational accounts of narrative self-construction are necess...

This article suggests that the understanding of an interview as a social practice can be enhanced by notion action mediated language and material tools proposed in nexus analysis methodology. Interviews viewed either source gathering information or practice. The latter approach advocates for greater sense reflexivity about situation. methodology help concretize interactional resources different...

game-based practicing of materials can be seen as a method of capturing an essence of real- life expe-rience which is commonly missing in the conventional face-to-face classrooms. to serve the l2 learn-ers' immediate communicative needs in wider classroom and societal contexts, this study sought to place l2 english learners within an interactional social framework through reinforcing their...

This paper examines the relationship between verbal and visual semiotic cues by analyzing how semiotic cues position speakers interactionally and communicate implicit evaluative messages in one television news story. The paper summarizes an analysis of this news story that my collaborator and I have done based solely on verbal cues (Wortham & Locher, 1996). Then the paper analyzes the visual cu...

This study aimed at investigating the potential of collaborative and e-collaborative writing modalities in developing interactional complexity, utilization of interactional demonstrators and density of interaction. To this end, 66 Iranian intermediate female English as foreign language learners (EFL) were selected to participate in this study according to their scores on Oxford Placement Test (...

In this paper, we address the larger notion of cooperation in interaction and its underlying dimensions as defined Conversation Analysis: alignment affiliation. Focusing on three cases from different languages (Danish, Estonian Finnish) investigate a specific practice, that anticipatory completions, particular context, storytelling, show practice completing another speaker’s turn an manner is n...

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, most COVID-19-related information was communicated to public through mainstream media such as newspaper outlets, television, and radio. These had substantial influence over which (widely) distributed how this framed, subsequently shaping citizens' interpretations of matters concerning pandemic. This chapter considers one government's endeavors contain pa...