Publication details
Turn-taking in legal spoken discourse
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The presentation briefly illustrates discursive practices used in spoken interaction, both between native and non-native university students from Europe and Asia as well as between non-native and native adults, professionals from real world. The main focus is placed on turn taking, and observations drawing from the methodology used in conversation analysis, ethnography of communication, pragmatics and interactional sociolinguistics are presented. Examples of turn taking collected from various sources including a large data of recorded videoconferencing sessions point at speakers intentions, and also uncover differences in perception of politeness in multicultural communication. Presented samples illustrate a range of topics, which vary from discussing a legal case study, presentation of an issue to a multicultural audience to academic discussions and business simulations. The aim of the paper is to show the importance of intercultural/multicultural training, raising cultural awareness in global communication and expressing intent and politeness adequately. |