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Tracking Change Over Time in Storytelling Practices: A Longitudinal Study of Second Language Talk-in-Interaction

Berger, Evelyne, Pekarek Doehler, Simona·2018·Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57007-9_3
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We present a longitudinal case study of a second language speaker’s changing storytelling practices over a period of nine months while interacting with her host family. We focus on how the storyteller moves the telling toward a recognizable end and, jointly with the recipient, engages in closing down the storytelling sequence. Results show an increased use of resources to anticipate the story climax, to recognizably display the story ending and to manifest the speaker’s stance; results also reveal how co-participants orient to such change in accountable ways. We discuss to what extent the documentable change can be interpreted as pertaining the speaker’s increased second language interactional competence and how it is indexically related to the changing local circumstances of the interactions at hand and tied to larger processes of socialization as the people move through time.

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Authors
Berger, E., & Pekarek Doehler, S.
Affiliations
University of Neuchâtel (CH)
ORCID
Berger, Evelyne
Venue
Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
2018
Pages
67-102
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-57007-9_3
OpenAlex
W2789184388
Cited by
23
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2
FWCI
17.62
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (unspecified)
Locations
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Analysis
Keywords
storytelling practices, longitudinal change, speaker stance, interactional competence, socialization, indexicality, second language acquisition

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Berger, E., & Pekarek Doehler, S. (2018). Tracking Change Over Time in Storytelling Practices: A Longitudinal Study of Second Language Talk-in-Interaction. Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57007-9_3