Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Introduction
The
messiness of social reality missing whatness
(Whelan 2012)
Institutions
What is an institution? an established organisation or foundation dedicated to education, public service or culture the building or buildings housing such an organisation (www.thefreedictionary.com/institution)
A more complex view Talk and language
Identity
A fixed, stable property of the individual psyche ? (Mayes
2010 p.194)
No dynamic, intersubjective, constructed moment by moment through social interaction and, at the same time, subject to existing ideologies and perceived social constraints. (Mayes 2010 p.195)
Talk
a medium for the conveying of information, with varying degrees of effectiveness, from a speaker to a listener in a transmission model of learning (Benwell et al 2002, p.430) Or
as the site for action
Talk as Discourse
Discourse:
A culturally and socially organised way of speaking (Mayr 2008 p.7) As construction and a social practice
shaping reality, creating patterns of understanding, which people then apply in social practices. (Mayr 2008 p. 5) practices which systematically form the objects of which they speak. (Foucault 1972, p.49 in Mayr 2008, p. 8)
Talk in Institutions
Institutional contexts order patterns of talk Ritual and uniformity Accomplishment of tasks
endowed with the performative power to bring into being the very realities it claims to describes (Mayr 2008, p. 3)
The Reading
Constructing discussion tasks in university tutorials: shifting dynamics and identities.
1) Future projection
Extract 1: I thought we could go over (2.0) some of the questions
Extract 2: anyway I thought (0.2) perhaps that we would try and remember (1.0) um (.) what (.) a phasar was
Goffman (1967)
Notion of the preservation of face
Negative face: Whenever the tutor makes a demand of a student in the form of a direct question their negative face is threatened Positive face: When a tutor evaluates a students response negatively they are threatening positive face
Extract 3
Features
3 part structure
Students unwillingness to contribute High degree of positive politeness
Question
What are some of the differences in student-teacher interactions when comparing high school classroom and university tutorial settings?
Breaching
1. Through student behavior
2. Through the stigmatization of expert language 3. Through tutors democratization of the classroom
1) Student Resistance
Hesitation
Unelaborated repetition or opinions Silence at Transitional Relevance Places
Extract 8
9 S3: is there a significant oh [got to put significant in there thats
10 S2: [significant yeah
Extract 8
1 S1: does rehearsal (.) help (.) retain the stimulus 2 (1.0) 3 S2: oohh! [hahahaha 4 S3: [hahahaha 5 S4: [hahahaha= 6 S1: =haha (.) phew (.) [where did that come from? hahaha
Question
What authority could students be resisting through critiquing literature from a subjective standpoint?
Question
In your own personal experience of democratization of the classroom, do you find that you learn better?
References
Allington, D 2012, Private experience, textual analysis, and institutional authority: The discursive practice of critical interpretation and its enactment in literary training, Language and Literature, vol. 21, no. 2, pp211225
Benwell, B & Stokoe, E 2002, Constructing discussion tasks in university tutorials: shifting dynamics and studies, Discourse Studies, vol. 4, no. 4, pp 429-453, accessed 25/09/12, University of Wollongong Library e-readings
References
Goffman, E 1967, The nature of Deference and Demeanor, in Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face to-Face Behaviour, Pantheon Books, New York, pp47-96, accessed on 26/09/12, University of Wollongong Library e-readings Kurzon, Dennis. 1995. Talk at work: interaction in institutional settings: Paul Drew and John Heritage (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xii-580pp, Lingua, vol. 96, no. 4: pp.278-286 institution. (n.d.) The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. (2003). Retrieved October 13 2012 from <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/institution>
References
Mayes, P 2010, The discursive construction of identity and power in the critical classroom: Implications for applied critical theory, Discourse Society, vol.21, no. 2, pp189-210, accessed 26/09/12, University of Wollongong Library ereadings Mayr, Andrea. 2008. Introduction: Power, discourse and institutions in Advances in Sociolinguistics: Language and Power: An Introduction to Institutional Discourse, Continuum International Publishing: London. pp.1-25 Tannen, D 2004, Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse, Research on Language and Social Interaction, vol. 37, no. 4, pp.399-420, accessed 05/08/12, University of Wollongong Library ereadings