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Conversation and Preference Structure

This document discusses preferences in conversation analysis and their role in structuring social interactions. There are preferred and dispreferred second acts in conversational exchanges based on social expectations. Conversation analysts also study basic elements of conversation like turn-taking, adjacency pairs, and sequential implications. The rest of the document discusses additional topics unrelated to the initial discussion of preferences in conversation analysis.

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Conversation and Preference Structure

This document discusses preferences in conversation analysis and their role in structuring social interactions. There are preferred and dispreferred second acts in conversational exchanges based on social expectations. Conversation analysts also study basic elements of conversation like turn-taking, adjacency pairs, and sequential implications. The rest of the document discusses additional topics unrelated to the initial discussion of preferences in conversation analysis.

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CONVERSATION AND PREFERENCE STRUCTURE

Within Conversation Analysis, “Preferences” are organizational principles that guide speakers in
how best to construct their talk, and how to understand what they're hearing when they are
interacting socially.

Preference Structure • Preference structure divides second parts into preferred and dispreferred
social acts • The preferred is the structurally expected next act • The dispreferred is the structurally
unexpected next act.

Conversation analysts identify three basic elements of conversation, the speaking turn, the
adjacency pair and the sequential implicativeness (Sacks et al., 1974). Despite these curious labels,
the idea is simple.

This research focuses on pauses, overlaps, and backchannels based on conversation in vlog of
Nessie Judge with title tips in speaking English. The duration the vlog is 7:32 minutes posted on
November 27, 2016 on Nessie’s youtube account. When the speaker is speaking will occur in the
conversation, become a reason the resercher to anlyze pauses, overlaps, and backchannels. The
purpose of this research is to find out what the types of pauses, overlaps, and backchannels and
how the pauses, overlaps, and backchannels in the conversation between Nessie and her partner.
This research used qualitative method. To collect the data the researcher watched the vlog of
Nessie. After the data collected, the data was classified into types of pauses, overlaps, and
backchannels. Then, the reasercher analyzed the reason behind of it. The result of this research
showed that there are two types of pauses in conversations. Filler and unfiller pause. And also there
are two types of backchannels. Vocal backchannel and non vocal backchannel. And the last is
overlaps which only once during the duration of the vlog.

Conversational style is a writing style that differs from customary contract prose. Instead of being
formal and impersonal, it makes a contract sound more like a conversation.

Writing a message to someone can be a daunting task for any of us. When we write to someone, we
are trying to convey a message that is aimed at making a good impression of us or getting the other
person to do something for us. And that something is usually very important. It is also the reason
why we write.
Historically, writing is considered a higher form of communication than talking to someone in the
ordinary way. What makes it even more difficult is the fact that we probably only have one shot at
getting the other person to understand and trust us. If we fail, it could mean the end for us and our
future plans. Sound cruel? It is. But that’s life.
A term of decision science that refers to a generalisation of the concept of aggregating the
objective functions under consideration into one objective function.

Preferences assist people in managing their behaviour when they talk, so that what they say
conforms to societal expectations. Every time we speak about people in conversation, we make
choices about the most appropriate expressions to use. Sometimes a first name (Fred) will be ideal,
whereas at other times a title and surname might be more appropriate (Mr Smith), whereas on yet
other occasions a pronoun will be sufficient (he). Preferences pertaining to person reference items
help us make these decisions. There are at least three preferences that assist Murrinh-Patha
speakers to make these decisions. They also appear to be the same preferences driving the
grammatical changes in their language.
When we want to speak about someone we haven’t spoken about previously, that we suspect is
known to the people we’re conversing with, there is an expectation that we will use words that can
allow the people we’re talking to to recognize the person in question. For this we use
‘recognitionals’.

Simulated annealing is a probabilistic local search method for global combinatorial optimisation
problems allowing gradual convergence to a near-optimal solution. It consists of a sequence of
moves from a current solution to a better one according to certain transition rules while accepting
occasionally some uphill solutions in order to guarantee diversity in the domain exploration and to
avoid getting caught at local optima. The process is managed by a certain static or dynamic cooling
schedule that controls the number of iterations. This meta-heuristic provides several advantages
that include the ability of escaping local optima and the use of small amount of short-term memory.
A wide range of applications and variants have hitherto emerged as a consequence of its
adaptability to many combinatorial as well as continuous optimisation cases, and also its
guaranteed asymptotic convergence to the global optimum

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