Conversational Analysis in A Sharing Experience: What Comes to Your Mind?

Herman Khunaivi

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Over the last two decades, research on pragmatics had paid great attention among the experts as well as practitioners in conversational analysis, but exploring how conversational analysis in a sharing experience remains unexplored. Pragmatics required conversation analysis since the conversation was the most basic language. Pragmatics should study how the two interact. Although the conversation is the paradigmatic language used. In this study, the researchers listened in on a selection of regular talks. Six Indonesian students in a post-graduate program were voice-recorded to have a conversation about their experiences. The conversations lasted for about seventy minutes. The researcher employed a technique that involved recording conversations among a group of individuals as they discussed a sharing experience. The researcher took the recording and transcribed it word for word to create the conversational frameworks. The results showed that turn-taking was as many (27), Preference Organisations (9), adjacency pairs (9), Inserted Sequence (9), and Topic Change (7). Conversational analysis showed how nonverbal communication conveyed meaning and emotion. Finally, the conversational analysis could reveal how individuals gave and received experience feedback. This could help everyone feel heard and valued and make sharing a joyful experience.


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Adjacency pairs; conversational analysis; pragmatics; topic change; turn-taking

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