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Conversation Analysis

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What kind of materials do conversation analysts use?

a)

Radio and Telephone

b)

Recordings and Transcripts

c)

Smartphones and Computers

d)

Paper and pen

2.

What is considered as a convenient form to represent the

recorded material in written form?

a)

Essays

b)

Tapes

c)

Transcripts

d)

None of the above

3.

Transcript is considered as the representation of data.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

4.

Conversation analysis transcription is the same as standard transcription.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

Which of the following are the concerns of CA analysts? (Please select 2 answers)

a)

Dynamics of turn-taking

b)

Grammar and Pronunciation

c)

Fluency

d)

Characteristics of speech delivery

6.

Select two examples of how Conversation Analysis has been used.

a)

Medical Application

b)

Writing an Essay

c)

Radio talk

d)

None of the above.

7.

What is the aim of Conversation Analysis?

a)

To analyze written and spoken texts.

b)

To analyze and develop conversation skills.

c)

To study the fluency and non-verbal actions in conversation.

d)

To discover how participants understand and respond to one another in their turns at talk

8.

Conversation Analysis has been used to explore power relations expressed through conversation.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

9.

Adjacency Pair is a term for the manner in which orderly conversation normally takes place.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

10.

What occurs when some preliminary action is taken before initiating the first part of an adjacency pair?

a)

Adjacency Pair

b)

Speaking Turns

c)

Presequence

d)

Transcription

11.

What are the two elements of Conversation Analysis?

a)

Recordings and Transcriptions

b)

Speaking Turns and Adjacency Pair

c)

Organization and relevance of Talk

d)

Power Relations and Conversation

12.

It is an approach to understanding the society based upon close analysis of how people make sense of, and establish order in the social world through everyday encounters.

a)

Discourse Analysis

b)

Genre Analysis

c)

Power Relations

d)

Conversation Analysis

13.

The focus of Conversation Analysis is to describe the orderliness, structure and

sequential patterns of interaction as evidenced through conversation.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

14.

It refers to the study of how social order is produced in and through processes of social interaction.

a)

Conversation Analysis

b)

Discourse Analysis

c)

Ethnomethodology

d)

Sequential Implicativeness

15.

It is a two-part exchange in which the second utterance is functionally dependent on the first

a)

Adjacency Pair

b)

Sequential Implicativeness

c)

Turn-takings

d)

Ethnomethodology