Open AccessCONVERSATIONAL MANAGEMENT DEVICES IN THE CLASSROOM
Author(s) -
Weiner Susan L.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1977.tb01127.x
Subject(s) - framing (construction) , perspective (graphical) , computer science , linguistics , human–computer interaction , communication , cognitive science , psychology , artificial intelligence , history , philosophy , archaeology
Topical transitions in teachers' classroom talk were analyzed from the perspective of conversations as game‐like structures with “moves” as basic elements. Three devices observed in this conversational context were proposed as having topical boundary functions: “framing” moves (words like O.K. , alright ), “pointing” moves (speech which notes the speaker's fact of saying something), and “quantifying” moves (speech with a logical or numerical quantifier which organizes subsequent talk). Preliminary evidence was presented which supported the hypothesis that these moves in fact bound topic talk.