Discourse analysis on conversational turn-taking in a German film by Jan Ole Gerster
Turn-taking is an important mechanism in order to make a conversation flows efficiently. It occurs in dialogues and conversation where everyone uses it but not everyone aware of the strategies that available. Kato (2000) stated that turn-taking that occurs in conversation might differs between di...
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/98709/1/FBMK%202021%2025%20-%20IR.pdf |
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| Summary: | Turn-taking is an important mechanism in order to make a conversation flows
efficiently. It occurs in dialogues and conversation where everyone uses it but not
everyone aware of the strategies that available. Kato (2000) stated that turn-taking that
occurs in conversation might differs between different cultures and languages which
could be found as burdensome to the foreign language learners. Lacking of studies of
turn-taking in German film conversation make the researchers, German language
educators and graduate students whose in the discourse field barely have medium or
sources to explore the language naturally. This study is based on the turn-taking
analysis of conversation in a German film “A Coffee in Berlin” by Jan Ole Gerster
which is also a good film to represent the typical German language and culture that is
suitable for German language beginners and fans to watch (Blankenship & Twark,
2017). This film also uses German language as the main language for conversation and
contains many scenes that involve daily life conversation of the Germans. Daily life
conversation is chosen in this film as it can be understood by a bigger audience
especially for language learners at beginner’s level. By referring to this film, this study
aims to detect the turn-taking rules and analyse the turn-taking strategies that occurs in
the film according to Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson (1974). The conversation data
collected are transcribed by applying Gesprächsanalytisches Transkriptionssystem 2
which means discourse and conversation- analytic transcription 2, or also known as
GAT 2 by Selting (2009) as it is the most compatible transcription with German
language. This study also is considered as qualitative descriptive study as it describes
the data and analyse them parallel with what Nassaji (2015) has stated, descriptive
qualitative study is fit to the study of foreign language learning. This study found that
three rules of turn-taking; Current speaker selects next, Next speaker self-selects and
Current speaker continues are involved in the conversation of the film. There are also
several strategies being analysed in the study from the rules found, used by the
characters in the film. In short, this study hope that the study will benefits the German language educators and researchers in order to practice and explore the German turn
taking and naturally. |
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