Conversational analysis

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Conversational analysis Content Analysis
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Socio-linguistics

• Langue Parole (Saussure)
• Competence and Performance (Chomsky)
• The speech act (Austin, J) in all its social
  dimensions

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Conversational analysisThe Specific Educational
Needs of Offenders

• Purpose
• To
• enable rehabilitation upon release
• develop employability skills
• reduce recidivism

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Assumptions

• Education and training has the potential to
  contribute to the reduction of offending
  behaviour
• There is a relationship between offending
  behaviour and unemployment

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Background Research

• Conversational analysis of long term unemployed
  men (3years)
• Anonymous questionnaire
• Parallel study into masculinities and
  unemployment

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CA InsideComponents

• Addressor/Addressee
• Channels
• Codes
• Setting
• Forms

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Topic(s)

• School experience, truancy, length of sentence,
  prison experience, friends, work experience,
  experience of working the system,
  defensiveness, role in interaction,
  institutionalization/gate happy fear,
  excitement, women, sex, masculinity, career
  expectation,

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Denotation

• Some of the comments made were denotative.
  Interpreted by normative rules.
• Phatic comments
• E.g.
• Int Have you ever been on a programme like this
  being proposed before?
• Res Only Crime watch miss. (Followed by
  laughter).

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Content Analysis

• Differs from conversational analysis in that it
  examines regularities in text (verbal or
  written).
• Uses a qualitative method for quantitative
  analysis

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Example from State of the Sector base line
research