We plan to hold two sessions.
This is a data session. The data come from Japanese elementary school English classes in which the teacher is reading a classic children's book to the class. Of interest here is the students' use of prosody for understanding turn completion during long story-telling turns. The students utter some sound, produce a Japanese translation, or repeat the teacher's final word only when the teacher's utterance uses final intonation.
I focus on internal (vaginal) examinations cunducted by a midwife. I noticed three prominent things about interaction there: 1. pregnant women do not express their pain, as is very different form other types of examinations in medical settings; 2. the entire interaction appears to be oriented to problems brought up explicitly or implicitly in the preceding exchanges; and 3. the midwife explains what she is currently doing, the explanation having evaluative connotations related to those problems forming the orientational framework for the current interaction. I will focus on the third point in this session.
If anybody is interested in bringing their own data, analyses, observations, arguments, or whatever, to a next meeting to discuss together, please contact Aug Nishizaka at augnish(a)soc.meijigakuin.ac.jp.