Foundations Of Interactional Analysis In Chinese

This course aims to provide you with the foundational skills and methods used when analyzing the workings of natural Chinese conversations, such as turn-taking, sequential organization, repair mechanism etc. Through looking at authentic human communicative behaviours, you will come to understand the social and cognitive workings of human sociality, in particular Chinese sociality.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Handle naturally occurring Chinese conversational data, both video and audio.
• Adequately analyze and present the data to reveal the workings of interaction.
• Formulate research ideas about Chinese interaction and their relation to social activities.