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Denna studie har gjorts inom temat språk och berättande. Där syftet var att ta reda på pedagogens medvetenhet om kommunikationens betydelse under samlingssituationerna. Det empiriska materialet i studien har samlats in genom intervjuer av förskollärare på fyra olika förskolor. Jag använde intervjuer som metod för att syftet var att ta reda på pedagogens förhållningssätt kring kommunikation. Resultatet av studien visar på att pedagogerna har en stor medvetenhet när det kommer till hur de använder kommunikationen i bemötandet av barnen. De är medvetna om att kommunikationen har betydelse för barns utveckling och lärande. Pedagogerna belyser att varje individ kommunicerar individuellt och att det är förskollärarnas uppgift att tolka dem. Samlingen är en aktivitet i verksamheten där pedagogerna alltid har en tanke bakom hur de kommunicerar med barngruppen. / This survey is within the theme of language and narrative. The aim was to find out how the pedagogues awereness on the communication’s meaning during various gathering situations. The empirical material used in this study has been collected through interviews of preschool-teachers from four preschools. I used interviews as the chosen method, due to the aim being, finding out the pedagogues approach on communication. The results of the survey, show that the pedagogues have great awareness when it comes to how they use communication when treating children. They are therefore very aware that communication has a very big role in children’s developement and learning. The pedagogues mention the significancy of the individual ways to communicate and it being up to the preschool-teachers to translate the children’s different ways to communicate. Gathering with the children in preschool is an activity, that shows that the pedagogues always think about how they communicate with the children.

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In every setting of human space there is hierarchy. At home there are parents and children while in social structures there are organisations/institutions and leaders, all of whom carry their positions with them. All these hierarchies are embedded in a web of mutual relations, but to a greater extent, power relations as others abuse their positions while some are subjugated and controlled. This study critically analyses talk exchanges in power relations within topic development. It draws its analytical viewpoint from twelve selected IsiZulu drama books with an aim of demonstrating power relations as embedded in language and literature in particular. The following are some of the elements of the discussion that highlight talk exchanges and power relations, namely, maxim of conversation, interruptions and interjections, dominance and control, power of language and turntaking, to name a few. To analyse data, written conversations are clustered based on themes as expounded by (Vaismoradi, et al, 2016:101). Themes were then analysed using the conditions of agreement (similar cases) and differences within the scope of Analytical Comparisons. As the findings, the study revealed that talk exchanges are elements of power relations in topic development. Further, the findings also contributed to the understanding that power abuse has beeninstitutionalised along the line of institutions, race, gender and age. The findings further highlight that most drama books have themes that share method of agreement and lesser of the condition of difference. The study further highlights that written texts of human engagement keep records of social cohesion and cohabitation. Furthermore, if such coexistence is discorded by power (dominance and control), resistance interjects. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Language, Linguistics and Literature)

Continuous Curatorial Conversations is a practice-led exploration of conversation, both as a medium and as a tool for capturing supplementary histories of the curatorial. The primary question of this research project is how the medium of conversation can be explored to write supplementary histories of the curatorial which thus far have been omitted from extant publications on the subject. Three important sub questions guide this exploration. First, what is and has been the role of conversation within the curatorial? What are the possibilities and limitations within the medium of conversation? What roles do conviviality and hospitality play within the process of conversation? This thesis reflects upon a series of curated projects that explore the sp/pl/ace for curatorial conversation and also reviews a collection of one-to-one recorded conversations conducted by the author, including conversations with Alfredo Cramerotti, Hedwig Fijen, Mel Gooding, William Furlong and Sarah Lowndes. Sites of fieldwork include: the 54th Venice Biennale; Manifesta 8, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art; and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012. Through these projects and related recordings it unpicks the norms and possibilities of what and when one can record on the subject of the curatorial. The hypothesis of this study is that a great deal of curatorial activity is locked up in conversation, yet a disproportion makes it to the pages of the history of the field. Furthermore, in its clean transcribed form it misrepresents the fragility and nuance of the original exchange. The theoretical context of this research looks at Nicolas Bourriaud’s notion of Relational Aesthetics, the writing of Maria Lind and Paul O’Neill, with a focus on Audio Arts. A new methodology relating to curatorial conversation and its recording has therefore been identified as ‘critical conviviality’. The writing relating to Continuous Curatorial Conversations research takes the form of four books. The book ‘An Introduction’ comprises the PhD thesis and sits next to a bespoke online platform www.continuous-curatorial-conversations.org which hosts a selection of audio recordings collated during the research process. The books ‘Continuous’, ‘Curatorial’, and ‘Conversations’ unpack the lineage and context of Alexandra C.M. Ross’s practice and projects conducted during her research and are to be read in no strict order. The new knowledge resulting from this thesis and relating practice is the attention to the subtleties of conversation and its capture as it relates to the instigation, recording and presentation of semi-private matters in semi-public contexts.