Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Dialogic Pedagogy: An Introduction
- 2 Dialogism and Education
- 3 Vygotsky and Dialogic Pedagogy
- 4 The Conceptions of ‘Dialogue’ Offered by Bohm and Buber: A Critical Review
- 5 Classroom Discourse: A Survey of Research
- 6 Pedagogy and Dialogue
- 7 The Small Group Writing Conference as a Dialogic Model of Feedback
- 8 Giving Learners a Voice: A Study of the Dialogic ‘Quality’ of Three Episodes of Teacher–Learner Talk-in-interaction in a Language Classroom
- 9 Authoritative Versus Internally Persuasive Discourse
- 10 Once More With Feeling: Utterance and Social Structure
- 11 How Prosody Marks Shifts in Footing in Classroom Discourse
- 12 Prosodic Chopping: A Pedagogic Tool to Signal Shifts in Academic Task Structure
- 13 Claiming Our Own Space: Polyphony in Teacher–Student Dialogue
- Appendix: Conversation Analysis Conventions Used for Data Transcription
- Index
Appendix: - Conversation Analysis Conventions Used for Data Transcription
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2026
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Dialogic Pedagogy: An Introduction
- 2 Dialogism and Education
- 3 Vygotsky and Dialogic Pedagogy
- 4 The Conceptions of ‘Dialogue’ Offered by Bohm and Buber: A Critical Review
- 5 Classroom Discourse: A Survey of Research
- 6 Pedagogy and Dialogue
- 7 The Small Group Writing Conference as a Dialogic Model of Feedback
- 8 Giving Learners a Voice: A Study of the Dialogic ‘Quality’ of Three Episodes of Teacher–Learner Talk-in-interaction in a Language Classroom
- 9 Authoritative Versus Internally Persuasive Discourse
- 10 Once More With Feeling: Utterance and Social Structure
- 11 How Prosody Marks Shifts in Footing in Classroom Discourse
- 12 Prosodic Chopping: A Pedagogic Tool to Signal Shifts in Academic Task Structure
- 13 Claiming Our Own Space: Polyphony in Teacher–Student Dialogue
- Appendix: Conversation Analysis Conventions Used for Data Transcription
- Index
Summary
[ ] overlapping utterances
= latched utterances
(.) micropause
(0.8) measured pause (seconds)
gra::dually lengthening, according to duration
th- abrupt cut-off of speech sound
house accentual emphasis
°they° quieter speech
↑ rising intonation
↓ falling intonation
< > slower speech
> < faster speech
(.hhh) audible in-breath
[...] omitted speech
(there) doubtful transcription
((coughs)) description of action
YE:EH capital letters: especially loud speech
? rising inflection
. A full stop indicates a stopping fall in tone. It does not necessarily indicate the end of a sentence.
Source: Maxwell Atkinson and Heritage (1984).
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