I seminarieserien Text och interaktion, med Rein Ove Sikveland, samtalsforskare vid NTNU, Trondheim
For this data session I bring an excerpt from a workshop involving researchers and participants in the research project “Living with cluttering” (Å leve med løpsk tale). Cluttering is a speech fluency disorder – less widely known than stammering - characterised by speech that can be heard as too fast, unclear or disorganised. The project recruits younger and older adults with cluttering, and aims to build knowledge and awareness about cluttering by combining the perspectives of people living with cluttering with those observed through a conversation analytic (CA) lens. The data in this project comprise 19 hours of video/audio recordings from two main settings: focus groups and everyday conversations.
The chosen excerpt is a few minutes of talk taken from a researcher-led workshop (using the Conversation-Analytic Role-play Method - CARM) in which participants with cluttering are presented with interactional issues that had already been implicitly or explicitly raised by them in previously recorded focus groups or everyday conversations. In this session one relevant focus is how participants account for the communication difficulties they face, and to what extent they may (not) correspond with an interactionistic understanding characteristic in for example CA research.
The data are in Norwegian.