Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
Interrogativity is a linguistic property in all world languages. It is inherently related to the ‘question-answer’ tandem of turn-taking. One notable feature of turn-taking is the adjacency pairs, where the question-and-answer sequences are part of. The canonical turn-taking model by Sacks et al....
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18557/1/46855-180163-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18557/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1471 |
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| Summary: | Interrogativity is a linguistic property in all world languages. It is inherently related to the ‘question-answer’ tandem
of turn-taking. One notable feature of turn-taking is the adjacency pairs, where the question-and-answer sequences
are part of. The canonical turn-taking model by Sacks et al. (1974) highlights the obligation to answer the questions.
In this paper, however, we report the many cases of no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
using the analytical framework of Conversation Analysis. We show that the Filipinos’ high-context communication
style has impinged on the occurrences of these types of answers. We then illustrate a turn-taking model for this type
of communication, wherein a straightforward answer is no longer obligatory, but becomes optional within the frame
of high-context communication style of the Filipino context. The questioning party can just “let it go” and accept the
indirect response as a legitimate and true answer to the question. Towards the end, we argue that the results may
convey that the faculty meeting, which is considered as an institutional talk, has resembled ordinary mundane
conversations, where questions are oftentimes taken for granted. |
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