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Conversational competence as 'construalistic' activity

Philburn, RS

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This paper builds on the previously advanced notion of the 'conversational construal', that is, the degree to which persons overlap with or differentiate from each other based on their conversational contributions. Specifically, the paper explores the notion of how mobilising different aspects of one's conversational construal over the course of talk with others can be regarded as a key 'conversational competence'. Moreover, this competence is argued to underpin cultural manifestations of ordinary, naturally occurring conversation, making the conversational construal a culturally sensitive phenomenon. To illustrate this idea, the paper draws on two lingua-cultures (England and Germany), which have been shown to display quite differing conversational orientations as participants in talk go about doing sociable interaction. The paper seeks not only to illustrate the links between these two ideas for the study on conversational interaction generally, but also to show how cultural variation in conversational style, and potential points of cross-cultural misunderstanding, might be better understood, made sense of, and appreciated.

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Philburn, R. (2018). Conversational competence as 'construalistic' activity. Journal of International Scientific Publications : Language, Individual & Society (Online), 12, 1-8

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 25, 2018
Online Publication Date Sep 28, 2018
Publication Date Sep 28, 2018
Deposit Date Oct 16, 2018
Publicly Available Date Oct 16, 2018
Journal Language, Individual & Society
Electronic ISSN 1314-7250
Volume 12
Pages 1-8
Publisher URL https://www.scientific-publications.net/en/article/1001761/
Related Public URLs https://www.scientific-publications.net/en/

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