Aspects of social practice seen from verbal and nonverbal "inequality"

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370499
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Aichi University
• Principal Investigator: Kataoka Kuniyoshi 愛知大学, 文学部, 教授 (20319172)
• Research Collaborator: BESNIER Niko University of Amsterdam, 教授 ; GOEBEL Zane La Trobe University, 准教授 ; SHIRAI Hiromi 慶應義塾大学, SFC研究所, 上席所員 ; YAMAGUCHI Masataka 神戸市外国語大学, 准教授
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 参与枠組み / コミュニケーションの民族誌 / 不均衡 / 会話分析 / 談話分析 / 参与 / 関与

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project has reconfirmed the validity of a analytical template called “Participation Framework” (Goffman 1981), and further extended the possibility of application to related fields through the analysis of unexplored aspects of “participation” and “involvement.” Specifically, we focused on the three areas of “inequality”--(1) inequality in “code/modality” for achieving intentionality; (2) inequality in “stance” for participation in social actions; (3) inequality in the communicative environment--by incorporating a “micro” approach (advocated by Conversation/Discourse Analysis) and a “macro” approach (exemplified by Ethnography of Communication). As a final product we published an edited book titled “Framing Communication” from a Japanese publisher in 2017.

Free Research Field

談話研究