Fabienne Chevalier

Contact

• workRoom B36 Trent Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 8466536
• fax0115 9515812
• fabienne.chevalier@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

My research interests include the following areas: · Conversation Analysis (CA) · The organisation of social actions in talk

• The overall organisation of talk-in-interaction (French and English)

• The relationship between grammar and interaction

• Tourism communication from a conversation-analytic perspective

• Institutional talk (business/workplace communication)
• Interactional Linguistics

I welcome applications from candidates interested in conducting research for a PhD or an MA by research in any aspect of Conversation Analysis or Interactional Linguistics

Research Summary

Having just completed a number of articles on the work that unfinished turns accomplish in French conversation, I am pursuing a new project that explores institutional talk. My particular interest is… read more

Recent Publications

• CHEVALIER, F.H.G., 2011. On the emergent and interactive character of grammatical resources in interaction: a single-case analysis of a left dislocation in spoken French Nottingham French Studies. 50(2), (In Press.)
• CHEVALIER F.H.G., 2011. Language and Social Interaction: An Introduction Nottingham French Studies. 50(2), (In Press.)
• CHEVALIER, F.H.G., ed., 2011. French Language and Social Interaction: Studies in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics: Special Issue of Nottingham French Studies 50 (2). (In Press.)
• CHEVALIER, F.H.G, 2011. Managing Impartiality in French Tourist Offices: Responses to Recommendation-Seeking Questions Discourse Studies. 13(2), 1-22 (In Press.)

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Current Research

Having just completed a number of articles on the work that unfinished turns accomplish in French conversation, I am pursuing a new project that explores institutional talk. My particular interest is in tourism communication and investigates the interactional practices that may be found in the tourist office institutional setting. The project draws upon a substantial corpus of telephone calls between tourist offices and their clients and explores, through a conversation-analytic approach, the ways in which institutional contraints shape, and are reflected in, the tourist officers' communicative practices.

Past Research

My PhD research used the methodology of Conversation Analysis (CA) to explore unfinished utterances in naturally-occurring French interaction. It sought to investigate the linguistic and extra-linguistic resources (e.g., sequentiality, projectability and syntax) that enable interactants to make sense of, and treat as coherent and meaningful, such unfinished stretches of talk. See under the 'publications' tab for details of articles reporting key findings of this project.

Future Research

My current research project on tourism communication in French will be broadened to a develop a comparative project with English tourism communication.

• CHEVALIER, F.H.G., 2011. On the emergent and interactive character of grammatical resources in interaction: a single-case analysis of a left dislocation in spoken French Nottingham French Studies. 50(2), (In Press.)
• CHEVALIER F.H.G., 2011. Language and Social Interaction: An Introduction Nottingham French Studies. 50(2), (In Press.)
• CHEVALIER, F.H.G., ed., 2011. French Language and Social Interaction: Studies in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics: Special Issue of Nottingham French Studies 50 (2). (In Press.)
• CHEVALIER, F.H.G, 2011. Managing Impartiality in French Tourist Offices: Responses to Recommendation-Seeking Questions Discourse Studies. 13(2), 1-22 (In Press.)
• CHEVALIER, F.H.G., 2009. The Facework of Unfinished Turns in French Conversation Discourse Studies. 11(3), 267-84
• CHEVALIER, FHG, 2008. Unfinished Turns in French conversation: How Context Matters Research on Language and Social Interaction. 41(1), 1-30
• CHEVALIER, F.H.G. AND R. CLIFT, 2008. Unfinished Turns in French Conversation: Projectability, Syntax and Action Journal of Pragmatics. 40(10), 1731-1752