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Prof. Kang Kwong LUKE
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Keynote Talk:
Talking, Thinking and Doing things: A unified approach to the study of language and communication
Talking, thinking and doing things are often thought of as distinct processes, and in a sense they are. However, there are at the same time fundamental connections that bind them together into a unitary whole. In this talk, I will explain how talking, thinking and doing things work together in everyday conversations. Using Conversation Analysis as a distinctive research methodologyand video recordings of naturally occurring interaction as data, I will show how language, thought and action can all be studied within a unified framework through careful observation of the details of word choices, grammatical structures, prosody, tone of voice, gesture, eye gaze, body postures, and the totality of the communicative situation. |
About the speaker
Dr. K.K. Luke is Professor of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University. His research interest is in the field of talk and social interaction, using an Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic approach. His work focuses on the interface between talk, cognition and interaction and is driven by an interest in what makes communication possible. How are intersubjective understandings achieved in interaction and what role do linguistic and multi-modal resources play in that process?
Among Professor Luke’s publications are Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation, Telephone Calls: Unity and Diversity in the Structure of Telephone Conversations across Languages and Cultures, and a special issue on ‘Turn-continuation in conversation’ for Discourse Processes.
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