scholarly journals Blurring the boundaries between domestic and digital spheres

Pragmatics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Rosenbaun ◽  
Sheizaf Rafaeli ◽  
Dennis Kurzon
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Digital Sphere

This study explores the phenomenon of multiactivity during recreational video-mediated communication (VMC) through the analysis of competing engagements. From a data corpus of naturally occurring interactions in public Google Hangouts, we focus on instances of competing engagements triggered by the co-presence of unratified participants in broadcasters’ physical environments. As users are immersed in their everyday spaces, interferences from their domestic sphere are common occurrences that break the participatory framework established in the digital sphere. Following a conversation analytic approach, we intend to show that these interferences lead to competing engagements that can be exploited rather than simply dealt with. Drawing on literature on multiactivity, we argue that participants at times organize and coordinate these multiple engagements to add playfulness and advance their interactions. In sum, this study aims to highlight how situated competing streams of action are coordinated and the purpose they may serve in recreational VMC.

Referring to past actions in caregiver–child interaction in Japanese

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoyo Takagi
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
Past Experiences

In naturally occurring everyday caregiver–child interaction, a major part of what is hearable as storytelling or an incipient form of it is talk about participants’ (mostly children’s) past experiences. Adopting a conversation-analytic approach, this study attempts to show how explicit references to children’s past actions formulated in the form of [(X) did (Y)], where X is the young child interacting with the caregiver, can engender opportunities for participants to develop telling activities. Through the detailed analysis of talk and embodied features of telling sequences in each case, the analysis will reveal how the [(X) did (Y)]-format utterance is utilized for co-constructing the telling, and what social and interactional consequences are accomplished through the telling occasioned by such reference.

Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic marker sådan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Christian Schoning ◽  
Jørn Helder ◽  
Chloé Diskin-Holdaway
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Self Repair ◽  
Interactional Discourse

Abstract The last three decades have witnessed increasing interest in discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), both with regards to their high frequency in spoken discourse and their multifunctionality in interaction. Most studies have centered on English, with studies on Danish restricted to a handful of previous interactional discourse analyses. This paper is a preliminary investigation of the Danish word sådan (commonly glossed as ‘such’ or ‘like this/that’). A qualitative, form-based, discourse analytic approach is undertaken on over 40 minutes of naturally occurring Danish talk to argue that sådan qualifies as a DPM. In service of textual, subjective, and intersubjective macro-functions, sådan illustrates; exemplifies; marks hesitation; approximates a quantity; mitigates, hedges, or softens; and allows self-correction or self-repair. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for sådan’s place in the Danish DPM system and our understanding of DPMs across languages.

‘Awww, she is feeding you’

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumei Gan
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Interactional Competence ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
The People ◽  
Engagement And Disengagement

Undertaking a video call with very young children can pose significant challenges, as children may wander away or fail to pay attention to the people on the screen. Previous studies have provided important insights into how adults try various strategies to engage young children in such video calls. Less attention has been paid, however, to the children’s perspective: how children orient themselves toward video-mediated communication technologies and the nature of these mediated interactions. Based on 56 recorded hours of naturally occurring video calls between migrant parents and the very young children (aged 8–36 months) they leave behind in China, this article examines how these children spontaneously display engagement and disengagement during a video call. This study highlights children’s interactional competence in engaging with the mediated format of interactions. Very young children can deploy various communicative resources that orient towards the affordance of video-mediated communication technology, such as manoeuvring the camera direction and initiating feeding and showing sequences. The analyses also illustrate that young children actively achieve disengagement in video calls through the artful use of language, body and the material world. These findings contribute to understanding children’s situated practices with digital technology in family communication, and how children are active interlocutors who guide the adults’ actions in moment-by-moment unfolding interactions.

Agency and impoliteness in Korean online interactions

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-259
Author(s):  
Ariel Kim ◽  
Lucien Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Social Meanings

Abstract (Im)politeness research has often focused either on the importance of social norms or on the intentions of the speaker, with the active role of the listener in assigning social meanings overlooked. This limitation particularly applies to so-called “discernment languages” such as Korean and Japanese. The current paper addresses this gap by offering a small-scale qualitative study of recipient agency in Korean naturally occurring computer-mediated communication (CMC). The data analyzed includes 14 text messages between the recipient (the proprietor of an online food business) and his customer, which were posted on a blog that he owned and operated. We focus on how the recipient agentively evaluates the language usage of the customer, including inconsistent evaluations of her use of non-honorific language, or panmal. The results suggest that the instability of (im)politeness interpretations cannot be explained solely by social norms or intentions but should also include the socially-mediated agency of the recipient.

Did Becky really need to apologise? Intercultural evaluations of politeness

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emi Okano ◽  
Lucien Brown
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Romantic Involvement ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Made In

This study analyses a public apology made in 2016 by Becky, an Anglo-Japanese tarento ‘celebrity’, for her romantic involvement with a married man, musician Enon Kawatani. Adopting an integrative pragmatics perspective, we analyse the pragmatic acts Becky used to perform her apology, including culture-specific nonverbal behaviours indexing deference. We then look at how the apology was dynamically evaluated in naturally occurring discourse in Japanese and British computer-mediated communication (CMC). The analysis shows that culture-specific moral orders rendered Becky’s apology necessary in the Japanese context, but that these norms were not shared by the British audience. The Japanese and British CMC participants utilised national identity as resources for negotiating their contrasting moral orders. We show how CMC participants assign significance to the (im)politeness-related behaviour to which they were exposed and how they performed (im)politeness through threatening national identities.

Gesture reuse as distributed embodied cognition

Gesture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Johanne S. Philipsen ◽  
Sarah Bro Trasmundi
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Intimate Link

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the intimate link between hands and minds – or rather: How the hands are a means for exploring thoughts in collaboration with others. Specifically, this study investigates a series of locally occurring instances of gestural reuse in naturally occurring psychotherapeutic interaction. The repetition of gestural sequences and formats in interaction has been researched as serving pragmatic functions of building cohesion (McNeill & Levy, 1993) and managing different aspects of turn-taking (Koschmann & LeBaron, 2002). Taking a micro-analytic approach to the study of gesture, we show how reusing other participants’ gestures in the context of psychotherapy serves additional functions: As affordances for shared, embodied cognition. The study contributes to the growing body of research on gesture as a co-participated, co-operative (Goodwin, 2013, 2018) and embodied phenomenon that criss-cross the boundaries of inside-the-skull, individual-centered and socially distributed cognition.

scholarly journals Alignment During Synchronous Video Versus Written Chat L2 Interactions: A Methodological Exploration

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 189-216
Author(s):  
Marije Michel ◽  
Marco Cappellini
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Structural Alignment ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Target Languages ◽  
Oral Interaction

AbstractConversational alignment (i.e., the automatic tendency of interactants to reuse each other's morphosyntactic structures and lexical choices in natural dialogue) is a well-researched phenomenon in native (Pickering & Ferreira, 2008) and to a smaller extent in second language (L2) speakers (Jackson, 2018) as confirmed by many highly controlled lab-based experimental studies investigating face-to-face oral interaction. Only a few studies have explored alignment in more naturally occurring L2 interactions (e.g., Dao, Trofimovich, & Kennedy, 2018), some of them extending the context to written computer-mediated communication (SCMC) (e.g., Michel & Smith, 2018).The current study aimed to address this gap by taking a closer look at alignment in L2 conversations mediated by two different types of SCMC (videoconference vs. text chat). We explored lexical as well as structural alignment in three target languages (Chinese, French, and German) involving interactional partners of different status (L2 peer, L1 peer, and L1 tutor).Results revealed that lexical and structural alignment are both present and observable in different SCMC contexts. From a methodological point of view, we discuss how different analyses suit the data generated by the affordances of the different SCMC contexts in the target languages and argue for a more dynamic and pervasive perspective on interaction.

scholarly journals Fostering Boys to Men

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason S. McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Foster Home ◽  
Home Setting ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Transmission Of Values ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

This article presents findings from a project that critically analyzed the naturally occurring discourse between a foster caregiver and youth. The purpose of the study was to examine the caregiver-child relationship and the way in which a child’s self is negotiated through interaction with a caregiver in a foster home setting. A discourse analytic approach was used to analyze the twenty-three observations of naturally occurring data collected over four months. This article focuses on the "boys to men" discourse genre, as illustrated through a segment of interaction, which highlights several themes relating to the cultural identity of responsible manhood. Themes include caregivers' role as teachers, cultural transmission of values, and motivation. The findings raise theoretical considerations for assessing child and adolescent behavior, advocating increased attention to the sociocultural environment.

scholarly journals Risk of herbivory negatively correlates with the diversity of volatile emissions involved in plant communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1961) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Grof-Tisza ◽  
Richard Karban ◽  
Muhammad Usman Rasheed ◽  
Amélie Saunier ◽  
James D. Blande
Keyword(s):  
Insect Herbivores ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Single Population ◽  
Plant Communication ◽  
Plant Volatile ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Latitudinal Transect ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Herbivore Pressure

Plant-to-plant volatile-mediated communication and subsequent induced resistance to insect herbivores is common. Less clear is the adaptive significance of these interactions; what selective mechanisms favour plant communication and what conditions allow individuals to benefit by both emitting and responding to cues? We explored the predictions of two non-exclusive hypotheses to explain why plants might emit cues, the kin selection hypothesis (KSH) and the mutual benefit hypothesis (MBH). We examined 15 populations of sagebrush that experience a range of naturally occurring herbivory along a 300 km latitudinal transect. As predicted by the KSH, we found several uncommon chemotypes with some chemotypes occurring only within a single population. Consistent with the MBH, chemotypic diversity was negatively correlated with herbivore pressure; sites with higher levels of herbivory were associated with a few common cues broadly recognized by most individuals. These cues varied among different populations. Our results are similar to those reported for anti-predator signalling in vertebrates.

scholarly journals “As it’s our last exchange next time…”. The closure initiation in email counseling

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Thurnherr
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Counseling Process ◽  
Relational Work ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Email Counseling ◽  
Relational Strategies

This paper reports from an interpersonal pragmatics perspective on the negotiation of closure of the counseling process in five naturally occurring email counseling exchanges between one counselor and five different clients. I focus on three aspects: who initiates closure, in what form, and in which interpersonal context. A mixed methodology consisting of a discourse-analytic approach combined with a participant interview serves to examine the closure initiation from multiple perspectives. Results show that extensive collaborative work (e. g. relational strategies such as showing empathy or praising) is carried out to create a “closure-relevant” environment in which the initiation of closure can occur. The counselor, who initiates all five closures, tailors the initiation according to clients’ progress so far and elicits specific relational work (e. g. self-praise) from clients that aims to position them as active self-helpers. It is the collaborative work by counselor and clients that facilitates the closure initiation of the counseling process. The analysis of the collaborative work from an interpersonal pragmatics perspective provides further empirical evidence of the link between relational work and identity construction.

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