Conversational Analysis of Acholi

Maren Rüsch, Dr. phil. (2018), University of Cologne. She works on natural interactions in Nilotic and Bantu languages and has published several articles on Conversation Analysis, youth languages and skinscapes.

• AcknowledgementsList of Maps, Tables, and FiguresAbbreviations1 Introduction1.1 About the Genesis of This Book and the Study It Comprises1.2 Historical, Political and Linguistic Background: Northern Uganda and Acholi in Numbers, Graphics and Quotes1.3 Acholi Preliminaries: Written and Spoken Language “Standards”1.4 On Methodology, Ethics and Conventions2 Framing Interaction2.1 Action and Reaction2.2 Framing and Context3 Conversational Micro- and Macro-management3.1 Starting from Scratch: Turns and Adjacency Pairs3.2 Order and Action Before, After, and Within: Sequences3.3 Dealing With Conversational Trouble: Repair and Overlaps3.4 Saying It Again: Repetitions4 Socio-pragmatics4.1 About Politeness, Criticism, and Evaluation4.2 Creating the Difference with Tiny Words: Pragmatic Markers4.3 Depiction of Action: Ideophones4.4 Ritual Interaction5 Non-verbal Contributions to Conversation5.1 Doing Things without Words: Depictive, Deictic and Emblematic Gestures5.2 Non-verbal Action in Conversation: A Note on Paralinguistic Features5.3 A Multimodal Approach: Structure and Action through Gesture, Gaze, and Body6 A Multidimensional Conceptualization of Conversation Analysis in Acholi6.1 Universal and Language-Specific Features6.2 A Multidimensional ApproachEpilogueReferencesIndex