Language and social interaction

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Nations, , language: English, abstract: Researchers from different academic disciplines approach conversation as a form of social interaction from widely differing perspectives. In this article, an overview of the sociological and sociolinguistic approaches and their different concerns in conversational interaction will be provided. I am interested in these approaches in so far as they present views about conversation as a sociolinguistic instance which reveals interpersonal relations and various social variables. Such views are displayed in the hope of demonstrating that these perspectives fall short of providing structural analyses of conversation as a 'social structure' for which participants hold themselves responsible for its maintenance.

Nor eddine Bourima has a Licence in English Language and Literature (Sidi mohammed ben Abdellah University, Fes), an MA and a PhD in Liguistics and Discourse Analysis (Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco). He teaches English Language and Linguistics and Translation Studies at the University of Sultan Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, Morocco). He is coordinator of The research Team on Audio-Visual Translation and Vice-Director of The Interdisciplinary Diversity & Development Research Laboratory (IDDRL). His current research interests include Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis, Sociology of Language, Discourse and Translation Studies, and Performance Studies.