"Activity Types" and "Discourse Types": Mediating "Advice" in Interactions between Foreign Language Assistants and Their Supervisors in Schools in France and England

Autor/inn/en	Culpeper, Jonathan; Crawshaw, Robert; Harrison, Julia
Titel	"Activity Types" and "Discourse Types": Mediating "Advice" in Interactions between Foreign Language Assistants and Their Supervisors in Schools in France and England
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 27 (2008) 4, S.297-324 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
DOI	10.1515/MULTI.2008.015
Schlagwörter	Mentors; Intercultural Communication; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Pragmatics; Teaching Assistants; Supervisors; Qualitative Research; Audio Equipment; Statistical Analysis; Case Studies; Discourse Analysis; France; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; Pragmalinguistik; Qualitative Forschung; Audio-CD; Statistische Analyse; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Diskursanalyse; Frankreich
Abstract	This paper aims to enhance our understanding of interactions between French/English Foreign Language Assistants (FLAs) and their school mentors (MEs), and, more specifically, of how "advice" is sought, given and received. More generally, it will articulate a pragmatic approach (employing the notion of "activity type") that can help achieve this aim. The paper draws on a sub-set of the data produced for the "Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication" (PIC) project, a project which deployed multiple and different methodologies, including, for example, not only transcriptions of live interactions, but also retrospective reflections on those interactions. We focus on the first non-casual meetings between FLAs and their MEs, a crucial part of which concerns "advice". We argue that advice can be viewed as a "discourse type", and show how it is deployed in the context of the activity types constituted by those meetings. We conduct a detailed qualitative analysis of one audio-recording of a meeting based in England, and then compare it with one based in France, our interpretations being informed by the participants' reflections, especially those of the FLA. We also deploy quantitative analysis and explore whether the patterns identified in our case studies can be generalised. Finally, we reflect on the implications of activity types and discourse types for pragmatics research, particularly politeness theory and cross-cultural pragmatics. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10