Zhang2002
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Zhang2002 |
| Author(s) | Hansun Zhang Waring |
| Title | Expressing noncomprehension in seminar discussion |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation analysis, Noncomprehension, Graduate seminar, Academic discussion, Dispreference, Identity |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 34 |
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| Pages | 1711–1731 |
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Abstract
This study shows that the expression of noncomprehension is a complex action dealt with skillfully and delicately by students in a graduate seminar. There is a noticeable orientation toward the delay of explicit admission. There is also a clear orientation toward offering an account of attempted understanding. Operating in concert with the delay and account is the appeal for group assistance. Based on such delay, account, and appeal, I argue for a dis- preference for expressing noncomprehension in a graduate seminar. I also contend that instantiated in the conversation practices mobilized to accomplish the expression of non- comprehension are the speakers’ novice status in an institution of higher learning, their tran- sitional identity as independent practitioners in the making, as well as their role as individual achievers within a collaborative context.
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