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Stammering Research. Vol. 1. recovered persons who stutter will also be published. There will then be, through the pages of Stammering Research, examples of the target article and commentary formats, release of two forms of audio data and associated software, release of one other form of data about speakers who stutter, an example report of one type of analysis that can be done with audio data. It is hoped that the international community will take up the prospects and new challenges that have been opened up by Stammering Research. A workshop conference has been arranged for June 2005 which will include tutorials describing ways to deal with the UCLASS material described in Howell and Huckvale (2004) with talks by Rose and MacWhinney (on CHILDES) and Huckvale (on SFS). This has been timed to precede the Oxford Dysfluency Conference so people can attend both. Details of both conferences appear at the end of this issue. Peter Howell, September, 2004 References Acton, C. (2004). A conversation analytic perspective on stammering: some reflections and observations. Stammering Research, 1, 249-270. Howell, P. (2004). Effects of delayed auditory feedback and frequency-shifted feedback on speech control and some potentials for future development of prosthetic aids for stammering. Stammering Research, 1, 31-46. Howell, P., Davis, S., Bartrip, J., & Wormald, L. (2004). Effectiveness of frequency shifted feedback on easy and hard sections of speech. Includes original audio data. Stammering Research, 1, 309-315. Howell, P., El-Yaniv, N., & Powell, D.J. (1987). Factors affecting fluency in stutterers when speaking under altered auditory feedback. In H. Peters and W. Hulstijn (Eds.). Speech Motor Dynamics in Stuttering, 361-369. New York: Springer Press. Howell, P. & Huckvale, M. (2004) Facilities to assist people to research into stammered speech. Stammering Research, 1, 130-242. Sage, R. (2004).How interviews with adults who stammer inform research directions concerning what we think about our stammer: Participants views from the Apple House Fluency Course, Oxford. Stammering Research, 1, 271-289. 248
TARGET ARTICLE Stammering Research. Vol. 1. A conversation analytic perspective on stammering: Some reflections and observations Ciaran Acton School of Sociology and Social Policy, Queen’s University Belfast University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN Northern Ireland c.acton@qub.ac.uk Abstract. While the contribution of quantitative research to our understanding of stammering is well-recognized, the reasons for the under-utilisation of qualitative frameworks are less clear. This main aim of this paper is to highlight the distinctive methodological features of one specific qualitative research paradigm, conversation analysis, and to draw attention to the potential of this approach for developing our understanding of interactional implications of stammering. The literature on turn-taking, adjacency pairs and response tokens is examined along with previous conversational analytic work on ‘communication disorders’, and it is argued that in order to fully comprehend the interactional consequences of stammering we need to engage in a fine-grained analysis of the details of recorded naturally occurring conversation. Keywords: Conversation Analysis; Qualitative research; Stammering. 1. Introduction Research on stammering has traditionally relied upon experimental designs and statistical analyses and in so doing it has made great strides, not only in terms of our knowledge about the nature of stammering, but also with regard to the development of effective treatment strategies. While there is inevitably going to be disagreement over the value of individual studies, there is little doubt that collectively this research has significantly increased our understanding of a wide range of stammeringrelated issues. However, given the extremely complex and multidimensional nature of the phenomenon, it is possible that an over-reliance on quantitative methods could result in other important aspects being under-researched or overlooked completely. The qualitative research tradition has a long and well-regarded history in the social sciences and the benefits of applying some of these approaches to the study of stammering have been highlighted by Tetnowski and Damico (2001), who suggest that researchers will be able to: ‘collect authentic data that are true representations of how stuttering impacts on individuals in the real world, …..create a richer description of what stuttering is, …..focus on the impact of stuttering on the individual… and collect data from the perspective of the individual person who stutters [PWS], …focus on the PWS and their collaborations with their coparticipants within the social context [and] learn more about the phenomenon under investigation, how it operates, and how PWS attempt to reduce its impact in social contexts’. While the term qualitative research encompasses a wide range of data collection techniques, some, such as in-depth interviewing and ethnographic methods, have a greater potential than others to open up certain relatively unexplored dimensions of stammering. Indeed there are encouraging signs of an increasing willingness among researchers on stammering to embrace qualitative methods. Studies such as those carried out by Crichton-Smith (2002) and Corcoran and Stewart (1998) provide important insights into the lived experience of stammering and highlight the need for more research in this area. However, the descriptions of stammering and its consequences that permeate this kind of research often rely heavily on the respondents’ recollections and interpretations of events. While such data allows us access to an important dimension of stammering it is nonetheless problematic in terms of our ability to fully understand the mechanisms at work in everyday interaction. So, for example, Crichton-Smith’s (2002:347) suggestion that ‘many of the limiting experiences reported….. may be associated with the consequences that follow a member’s chosen speech strategies’ leaves a number of unanswered questions and generates the need to obtain a much more detailed account of these strategies, how they function in everyday conversation and what interactional implications they have. Alternative research methods, however, may provide the opportunity for obtaining an account of stammering-related strategies at this level of detail and, conversation analysis offers such a potential. Although conversation analysis falls under the broad category of qualitative methods, it represents a quite 249
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