Pragmatics of overlapping talk in therapy sessions

Nawal Fadhil ABBAS

doi:https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.803705

Makale detayları

Pragmatics of overlapping talk in therapy sessions

Yazarlar:

Nawal Fadhil ABBAS

Yayıncı:

Hacettepe University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 2020 Vol.16 Issue 3, pp.1251-1263

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000769478

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

pISSN:

1305-578X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.803705

Özet:

 

Cooperation in conversation is usually managed by the turn- taking mechanism where the interlocutors’ turns are done according to certain rules the most important of which is that ‘one and only one speaker speaks at a time’. Since talk can be used as a cure for people who have troubles in their life, psychotherapy uses the field of conversation analysis as a procedure to deal with such troubles. Conversation analysis with all its essential facts helps therapists find out the reasons behind their patient's difficulties and predict the solutions for them. One of such essentials is that of the turn taking system and more specifically the ‘overlapping talk’. The aim of the present research paper is to show what types of overlap mostly overwhelm the therapy session and how the overlap is managed and resolved. To do so, two scripts taken from two psychological therapy sessions are selected and examined using Sacks et al’s model (1974) and Jefferson’s model (1983). The study has come to the conclusion that the overlapping talk usually occurs because of the misjudgment of the transition relevance places (TRPs) due to its type whether transitional or progressional. It has also been noticed that the terminal overlap is used more frequently than the other types. Continuers such as ‘yeah’, ‘ok’, ‘alright’, ‘aha’, ‘umm’ are used by the therapist to encourage the patients to continue in their turns.

Makale detayları

Pragmatics of overlapping talk in therapy sessions

Yazarlar: Nawal Fadhil ABBAS

Yayıncı: Hacettepe University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 2020 Vol.16 Issue 3, pp.1251-1263

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/2020

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000769478

Sıklık: Üç Aylık

pISSN: 1305-578X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.803705

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Nawal Fadhil ABBAS

Yayıncı:

Hacettepe University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 2020 Vol.16 Issue 3, pp.1251-1263

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000769478

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

pISSN:

1305-578X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.803705