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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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Main Authors: Munalim, Leonardo O., Genuino, Cecilia F., Tuttle, Betty E.
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
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spelling my-ukm.journal.185572022-05-11T00:35:35Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18557/ Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings Munalim, Leonardo O. Genuino, Cecilia F. Tuttle, Betty E. 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. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18557/1/46855-180163-1-PB.pdf Munalim, Leonardo O. and Genuino, Cecilia F. and Tuttle, Betty E. (2022) Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 28 (1). pp. 44-59. ISSN 0128-5157 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1471
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description 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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author Munalim, Leonardo O.
Genuino, Cecilia F.
Tuttle, Betty E.
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Genuino, Cecilia F.
Tuttle, Betty E.
Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
author_facet Munalim, Leonardo O.
Genuino, Cecilia F.
Tuttle, Betty E.
author_sort Munalim, Leonardo O.
title Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
title_short Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
title_full Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
title_fullStr Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
title_full_unstemmed Turn-taking model for Filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
title_sort turn-taking model for filipinos’ high-context communication style from no-answered and non-answered questions in faculty meetings
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2022
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18557/1/46855-180163-1-PB.pdf
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