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Vägar till förståelse: Andraspråkstalare i samtal med en studie- och yrkesvägledare.
Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation. Göteborgs universitet.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-5358-4842
2013 (svensk)Doktoravhandling, monografi (Annet vitenskapelig)
Abstract [en]

The aim of this work is to explore how shared understanding is achieved in career counseling with second language clients. Video-recorded counselling sessions are analysed along with participant interviews and other secondary data. The methods are mainly interpretative, but some quantification of data has been made. The thesis has an emergent research design and comprises three sub-studies. These make use of various theoretical frameworks and concepts, such as  interactional sociolinguistics, modified interaction and CA.

The results show that the second language speakers’ knowledge of Swedish, as it is normally tested, is not crucial for the degree of success in achieving shared understanding. Instead, other aspects of conversational ability, such as explicitness, persistence and social skills, in combination with the ability to utilise the first language speaker as an interactional resource, are more significant.

It is also clear that the first language speaker, being at the same time the institutional representative, has far-reaching responsibilities in the conversation in order for the interactants to reach shared understanding. The analyses show that “understanding” in counselling often implies a kind of learning for the clients. Only after a certain degree of learning are the clients able to express their ideas or make a decision and, subsequently, negotiate shared understanding of their intentions.

All three sub-studies show that the negotiation of understanding is successful at a local level in most cases. Global understanding, however, is a challenging task. The cause of these difficulties is more often the asymmetrical relationship regarding knowledge of education and the labour market than linguistic shortcomings in the clients. To achieve shared global understanding requires a degree of awareness and activity from both interactants and a substantial amount of negotiation.

sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
Göteborg: Institutionen för svenska språket. , 2013.
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Göteborgsstudier för nordisk språkvetenskap, ISSN 1652-3105 ; 21
Emneord [en]
career counselling, communicative projects, institutional talk, modified interaction, reformulations, second language conversation, Swedish as a second language, understanding
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-18988ISBN: 978-91-87850-51-6 (tryckt)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-18988DiVA, id: diva2:621218
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2013-06-19, Lilla hörsalen, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborg, 10:15 (svensk)
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Tilgjengelig fra: 2013-05-14 Laget: 2013-05-14 Sist oppdatert: 2013-11-07bibliografisk kontrollert

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