Introduction
This week we are going to build from what was covered last week. Your task this week is to identify when the client presents new information and learn more about overlapping grounding sequences.
As a review, the basic grounding sequence is:
This week you will learn that any one utterance can serve the function of presenting new information, displaying understanding of that information, and confirming the addressee’s display of understanding. For this week’s exercise, you will notice that there are 8 tiers in the ELAN file to account for overlapping grounding sequences:
a-Insoo Presents
b-Sam Displays
c-Insoo Confirms
d-Grounded
a-Sam Presents
b-Insoo Displays
c-Sam Confirms
d-Grounded 2
You task this week is to fill in the last 4 tiers (above); when Sam is presenting new information.
For example, in this week’s exercise, Sam’s display of “August 10th” also serves as “a – Sam Presents”. Insoo’s confirmation of “August 10th” also serves as “b-Insoo Displays”. Below you’ll see the first two completed overlapping grounding sequences. The final step of “c-Sam Confirms” is when Sam looks up at Insoo. Note: any of the three stages of a grounding sequence can be a nod, eye gaze towards the speaker, etc. You may record gestures or facial expressions for any of the three steps.
As a review, the basic grounding sequence is:
- The speaker presents new information.
- The addressee displays that he or she understood the new information, did not understand it, or is not sure.
- The speaker confirms the addressee’s display of understanding as correct or incorrect.
- At the successful completion of a sequence, some new information has been grounded between them.
This week you will learn that any one utterance can serve the function of presenting new information, displaying understanding of that information, and confirming the addressee’s display of understanding. For this week’s exercise, you will notice that there are 8 tiers in the ELAN file to account for overlapping grounding sequences:
a-Insoo Presents
b-Sam Displays
c-Insoo Confirms
d-Grounded
a-Sam Presents
b-Insoo Displays
c-Sam Confirms
d-Grounded 2
You task this week is to fill in the last 4 tiers (above); when Sam is presenting new information.
For example, in this week’s exercise, Sam’s display of “August 10th” also serves as “a – Sam Presents”. Insoo’s confirmation of “August 10th” also serves as “b-Insoo Displays”. Below you’ll see the first two completed overlapping grounding sequences. The final step of “c-Sam Confirms” is when Sam looks up at Insoo. Note: any of the three stages of a grounding sequence can be a nod, eye gaze towards the speaker, etc. You may record gestures or facial expressions for any of the three steps.
Learning Objectives
Exercise
Be sure to review the required reading. As a reminder, make sure you keep the "grounding rules" close because you will have to refer to them continuously throughout this week’s work.
YOU WILL BE LOST IF YOU DON’T READ THE Grounding Rules !!!!!!
Postings
Questions
1. What was the most important thing that you learned from doing the analysis this week?
2. Discuss your insights about co-construction from seeing overlapping grounding sequences.
(Questions post is due by midnight, Saturday April 22, 2017)
Comparisons
PDF of Instructions
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- Identifying when and how new information is presented by the client.
- Identifying whether and how the addressee displays understanding.
- Identifying whether and how the speaker confirms the addressee’s display of understanding.
- Learning that grounding sequences do overlap and how to label them.
- Bavelas, De Jong, Korman, & Smock Jordan (2012). Beyond back-channels: A three-step model of grounding in face-to-face dialogue.
- Bavelas, De Jong, Smock Jordan, Korman (2015). The theoretical and research basis of co-constructing meaning in dialogue. Journal of Solution-focused Brief Therapy.
(The name of the file in the dropbox is “Bavelas, De Jong, Smock Jordan, Korman (2015). The theoretical .pdf”) - Grounding rules for the On-line course 2017.pdf
You need to read through them quickly and then keep them open or printed when you do the analysis. Particularly pages 5-9 with the definitions.
- Clark & Schaeffer, 1987 (Herbert H. Clark and Edward F. Schaefer, Language and Cognitive Processes, Vol. 2, No. I, pp. 19-41.)
Exercise
Be sure to review the required reading. As a reminder, make sure you keep the "grounding rules" close because you will have to refer to them continuously throughout this week’s work.
YOU WILL BE LOST IF YOU DON’T READ THE Grounding Rules !!!!!!
- Download the ELAN-file "Exercise 2 Insoo and Sam 15-45 seconds.eaf" connected to the video from last week " Insoo and Sam 15-45 seconds.mpg ". As usual rename your copy with your initials. Open the ELAN.
- You will begin this week by looking for all of Sam's utterances where he introduces new information. The first grounding sequence where Sam introduces new information has been done for you (a screen shot of that grounding sequence is above).
- Starting after the example, begin looking for the first time when Sam introduces new information. Then follow the procedure from last week by labeling steps a-d of each grounding sequence. Make sure you do one grounding sequence completely before starting the next one.
- Once you have recorded the grounding sequences through 45.918 seconds, upload your .eaf and psfx files (the ones with your initials) with the completed analysis to the Dropbox folder “Uploads, IMA online course.”
Postings
Questions
1. What was the most important thing that you learned from doing the analysis this week?
2. Discuss your insights about co-construction from seeing overlapping grounding sequences.
(Questions post is due by midnight, Saturday April 22, 2017)
Comparisons
- Download two other analyses in ELAN (from other course participants) and compare yours with one of theirs.
- Choose one other person's ELAN and post a comparison. Compliment yourself and your colleague on your agreements, and make a case for your own analysis by appealing to the rules when or if you disagree with something.
- If you wish (and it will probably be more fun), contact one of your colleagues on the course and discuss the above and post together. (You can connect via skype and share a desktop view either with skype, or "Chrome remote desktop". Instructions via google search.)
PDF of Instructions
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