A corpus-based study of the mechanisms of conversational alignment in professional French-speaking context Ghent University
This PhD project aims at studying the linguistic devices used to achieve conversational alignment, that is, mutual understanding and interactional success between interlocutors, in the context of workplace interactions, in particular business meetings, in French. Through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of existing audio corpora, the PhD candidate will focus on a selection of mechanisms that express speakers’ alignment and ...