{"title":"Using formulations to manage conflicts in classroom interactions","authors":"Claudio Baraldi","doi":"10.1075/LD.00038.BAR","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n In classroom interactions, facilitation of children’s autonomous choice of acting (agency) may\n produce conflicts among children. While facilitation does not have the function of managing these conflicts,\n it shares some types of action with conflict mediation, one of which is formulation. Formulation elaborates\n the gist of previous utterances and enhances interlocutors’ actions. This paper provides a qualitative\n analysis of nine transcribed sequences of interaction, included into five different programs of facilitation.\n The analysis shows that formulations fulfil two different functions. First (function of mediation), they are\n designed as developments of the gist of children’s utterances, enhancing stories of cooperation. Second\n (function of facilitation), they are designed as explications of the gist of children’s utterances, without\n enhancing cooperative stories.","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language and Dialogue","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LD.00038.BAR","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In classroom interactions, facilitation of children’s autonomous choice of acting (agency) may
produce conflicts among children. While facilitation does not have the function of managing these conflicts,
it shares some types of action with conflict mediation, one of which is formulation. Formulation elaborates
the gist of previous utterances and enhances interlocutors’ actions. This paper provides a qualitative
analysis of nine transcribed sequences of interaction, included into five different programs of facilitation.
The analysis shows that formulations fulfil two different functions. First (function of mediation), they are
designed as developments of the gist of children’s utterances, enhancing stories of cooperation. Second
(function of facilitation), they are designed as explications of the gist of children’s utterances, without
enhancing cooperative stories.
期刊介绍:
In our post-Cartesian times human abilities are regarded as integrated and interacting abilities. Speaking, thinking, perceiving, having emotions need to be studied in interaction. Integration and interaction take place in dialogue. Scholars are called upon to go beyond reductive methods of abstraction and division and to take up the challenge of coming to terms with the complex whole. The conclusions drawn from reasoning about human behaviour in the humanities and social sciences have finally been proven by experiments in the natural sciences, especially neurology and sociobiology. What happens in the black box, can now, at least in part, be made visible. The journal intends to be an explicitly interdisciplinary journal reaching out to any discipline dealing with human abilities on the basis of consilience or the unity of knowledge. It is the challenge of post-Cartesian science to tackle the issue of how body, mind and language are interconnected and dialogically put to action. The journal invites papers which deal with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, in theory and in practice, in business, in court, in the media, in politics and academia. In particular the humanities and social sciences are addressed: linguistics, literary studies, pragmatics, dialogue analysis, communication and cultural studies, applied linguistics, business studies, media studies, studies of language and the law, philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, sociology, anthropology and others. The journal Language and Dialogue is a peer reviewed journal and associated with the book series Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand.