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In Vino Veritas: A Conversational Analysis of a Drunk

Annotated Bibliography

Jovanne M. Pojanes

Caraga State University

Master of Education- English Language Teaching

Prof. Ron Cubillan

April 30, 2021

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Allott, N. (2018). Conversational Implicature. Oxford Reserach Encyclopedia of Research.

Conversational implicatures (i) are implied by the speaker in making an utterance; (ii)
are part of the content of the utterance, but (iii) do not contribute to direct (or explicit)
utterance content; and (iv) are not encoded by the linguistic meaning of what has been
uttered.

In a certain part of conversation, some statements or questions are not answered

directly and appropriately by an addressee; thus, inferences are applied to get the
meaning of what is being implied. For instance,

Benjamin: Are you having some of this chocolate cake?

Amelia: I’m on a diet.

Amelia’s response asserts that she is on a diet, and implicates that she is not having
cake. This is a property of implicatures that reflects the fact that they are pragmatically
implied and inferred.

In the conversational analysis that I am doing, this implicature is observed as the

subjects uttered statements which were not responded according to what is expected.

Bolden, G. (2015). Transcribing as research: "Manual transcription" and Conversation

Analysis. Research on Language and Social Interaction. Research on Language and
Social Interaction, July. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280881372

Researchers are not just observing how the interaction of conversation occurred; they
need to note the details of talk so, thorough listening is required. Thus, transcribing a
conversation is a crucial task. Although, as presented in this paper, there are talk-to-
text software that can make this arduous activity easier, this does not guarantee
correct transcription since there are words that are not yet included in the transcribed
bank to which, significantly, the language of the conversation that I am listening to is a
local dialect that is impossible to obtain through such software.

Manual transcribing is best done from turn-taking practices to sequence organization,

repair, and action design. There are specific lexical practices— such as repetition, and
words selection— specific word strings building in an analysis of social actions.
Through manual transcription, researcher will be able to make sure that everything is
jotted down according to the models, theories, and processes of the analysis.
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Cornips, L., & Gregersen, F. (2016). The impact of Labov's contribution to general linguistic
theory. Journal of Sociolinguistics, September.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308532081

In literatures about general linguistic theory, it is defined as a set of assumptions and

assertions leading from that to: (1) a delimitation of the field of enquiry, thus
characterizing possible types of data; (2) a specification of the central questions to be
answered or issues to be investigated; and (3) a characterization of the methods
favored in addressing the issues scientifically.

In this paper, the researchers have tried to answer the question of Labov’s contribution
to general linguistic theory and of how he has influenced the theoretical character of
linguistics as a whole.

William Labov’s elements of narratives has been widely used in analyzing

conversation (1) abstract, (2) orientation, (3) complicating action, (4) evaluation, (5)
resolution, and (6) coda. These applying to the conversational analysis create a clear
yet simple interpretation of the transcription.

Curtin, J., Patrick, C. J., Lang, A. R., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2001, November). Alcohol Affects
Emotion Through Cognition. Psychological Science.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265843384

Emotions are vital to an understanding of behavior because they are linked directly to
action. In this paper, the behavioral effect was adaptive when subjects under
conditions of intoxication outperformed control subjects on the tasks. This paper
posited that alcohol influences emotional response via effects on higher cortical
systems that participate in the detection and recognition of affective cues embedded
within a context.

The study provides a clear demonstration of how alterations in cognitive-processing

capacity can influence responsiveness to an emotional cue, with consequent effects
on behavior. It also provides compelling evidence that alcohol dampens emotional
responsiveness and reduces inhibitions via its effects on higher cognitive systems.
This work highlights potential contributions from a multilevel perspective on emotional
processing.
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In respect to my current study, this generates an explanation as to how emotion affects

contexts in a communication process when there are alterations in cognitive-
processing system due to, for instance, alcohol.

Dalla, L. O. (2020, October). Retrieved April 24, 2021, from Research Gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344862676

Conversation analysis (CA) is a way to deal with the investigation of social connection,
grasping both verbal and non-verbal direct, in circumstances of regular day to day
communication. It started with an emphasis on easygoing conversation, for example,
those happening in specialists' workplaces, courts, law requirement, helplines,
instructive settings, and the broad communications. It was created in the late 1960s
and mid-1970s mainly by the humanist Harvey Sacks and his nearby partners
Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson.

The object of reviewing these interactions is to explore how the conversation members
understand as well as respond to each other in their turns at talk, with a central focus
on how sequences of action are generated. In addition, the objective of conversation
analysis is to uncover the often tacit reasoning transactions and sociolinguistic
competencies underlying the production as well as interpretation of talk in
systematized sequences of interaction

Heritage, J. (2013). Turn-initial position and some of its occupants. Journal of Pragmatics.

The process of transcribing has always been a key element of CA research and
training. Conversation analytic research necessitates intimate engagement with the
recorded data. CA researchers have long emphasized the importance of the analyst’s
involvement in the transcribing process and the integration of transcribing and
analysis. This article further explains the importance of a close and careful listening as
researchers transcribe the conversation being recorded.

Louwerse, M. M., Hoque, E., Lewis, G. A., & Zirnstein, M. (2007). Multimodal communication
in face-to-face conversations. Conference Paper, January.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285786106

Multimodal communication involves multiple communicative channels including

speech, facial movement, and gesture. Relatively few studies on how various
communicative modalities are aligned in natural, face-to-face communication exist.
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This study enumerates insights of the correlation of eye gaze, facial movements,
speech features, map drawings, and dialogue structures with each other and which
dialogue acts best predict the expression of a particular modality.

Nonverbal cues play a vital role in the conversational aspect. It does not necessarily
respond in a language that is spoken to sustain a conversation, a simple nod or any
gestures can convey message. This somehow requires to be captured by camera so it
will be included in the transcription and analysis.

Mancini-Peñ, G., & Tyson, E. (2007). 'I'm gonna sound like a drunk here'. Constructions of
volume of consumption. Youth Studies Australia, 35-42.

Heavy drinking leads someone into getting plastered which make him unconsciously
do acts of immaturity, irresponsibility, and/or risk-taking. In this extract, talk about
personal consumption is oriented towards avoiding such attributions; instead, doing
less contentious and more positive activities such as having fun and dancing.
Consumption such alcohols contribute to one’s behavior during the session.

Alcoholic beverages affect the consciousness and actions of a person to the extent
that he does things that are not usually done by him in daily basis, and talks eschewed
topics, even truths that are kept by himself.

This stressed out the impact of alcohol to one’s words, actions, and behavior, in
general.

Melani, R., & Tritsch, N. X. (2021, March). How alcohol affects motor control: not your usual
suspects. Nature Metabolism. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350335215

This article discusses the indicators of alcohol intoxication to the brain function and
behavior of a person consuming it. Acetate, for instance, not as a harmless by-product
of ethanol metabolism but as an integral component of the complex cascade of
alcohol-evoked signaling events affect brain functions.

Empirical studies like this claim that alcohol consumption changes person’s behavior
as breakdown of chemicals to the brain regions shift his consciousness and
perception. This supports the claim of my current study on conversational analysis in
which the subject in under the influence of alcohol.
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Rothwell, C. D., & Shalin, V. L. (2017). Quantitative Models of Human-Human

Conversational Grounding Processes. Conference Paper, July.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319155013

Conversational grounding is the process whereby interlocutors determine that they

have understood one another, and results in additions to shared knowledge and
understanding.

In this paper, the researchers quantitatively modeled conversational grounding

processes between two interlocutors testing two models for this process— alignment
and coordination, in a complex collaborative grounding task. The results clearly
discount an alignment model as a sufficient model of the conversational grounding
process. Results also indicated that the coordination recurrence model is closely
related to given dialogue and therefore strategic design models of the conversational
grounding process must be considered.

In response to the analysis of conversation with multiple participants, grounding

process has to be considered, utilizing the models suggested to scrutinize the
utterances of the subjects.

Schegloff, E. A. (2000). Overlapping Talk and the Organization of Turn-Taking. Language in

Society, March. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259362815

This article provides an empirically grounded account of what happens when more
than one person talk at once in conversation. This features an overlapping talk relating
to turn-taking organization, and provides solution to this. To stop talking is the most
obvious way to stop simultaneous talk; however, the question of who should do it has
been escalated. That is part of what an overlap management device is about.

An overlap management device, or an overlap resolution device, provides the

resources and the practices with which the parties can reconcile the requirements of
the organization of interaction with the projects and courses of action in which they are
severally engaged at that very moment. Organizationally speaking, it is a matter of
indifference who withdraws.

As mentioned in the study, solutions like doing chorally is an overlap resolution like
laughing or greeting “good-bye” to someone. This implies that a conversation in this
case could be addressed especially if it is more chaotic discursion.
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Tsui, A. (1989). Beyond the adjacency pair. Language in Society, December.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232008824

This paper justifies the relevance of occurrence of the third part of an exchange by
discussing its pragmatic functions and accounting for its absence when it is not found
in conversation. The researcher tries to debunk the idea that the basic interactional
unit is the adjacency pair, as is widely accepted. The researcher argues that a
potential three-part exchange is the basic interactional unit. It is observed that there
are certain utterances in conversation that are not component utterances of an
adjacency pair and yet they form a bounded unit with it.

Nonverbal gestures are often not recorded in transcriptions, giving the illusion that the
follow-up move is absent; but, the truth is, they create a message that continues the
conversation.