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How do you have a productive conversation in a relationship? 

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Olcay Sert, Ufuk Balaman 
01 Sep 2018-ReCALL
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A conversation analytic investigation into negotiation of meaning (NoM) in task-oriented interactions can bring evidence to such development, as conversation analysis (CA), given its analytic tools, allows us to see how participant orientations in interaction evolve over time.
These interactional moves promoted irritation and anger in the client, and the therapeutic relationship eventually became the focus of the conversation.
Drawing, in part, on methods from conversation analysis, it is shown how a detailed analysis of how talk is produced in naturally occurring settings can generate findings relevant to professional practice.
If conversation is a practical art, then a discipline that studies conversation should “assume the full burden of the critic.
The method for measuring transactional success in conversation developed in this investigation provides a much-needed means for clinicians to evaluate the efficacy of conversation therapy.
By utilising the notion of feedback and exploring its function in conversation, we emphasize the need for a more refined view of the relationship between speaker, hearer and feedback.
In other words, we have some intuitions about what constitutes a well-formed and well-performed conversation, although there is little in the way of formal theoretical models of conversation.
In general, relationship talk was positively associated with people's perceptions of the relational impact of conversation, but intimacy was unrelated to relational impact.
Findings from a series of semi-structured interviews show people make a clear dichotomy between social and functional roles of conversation, emphasising the long-term dynamics of bond and trust along with the importance of context and relationship stage in the types of conversations they have.
We argue that the likelihood of intervention success will increase if the role of conversation is considered in the intervention process. SummaryThe generation of productive conversation should be considered as one of the foundations of intervention efforts.