Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be+like in Instant Messaging

Jones, Graham M.; Schieffelin, Bambi B.

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2007.09.003

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“…Various authors (e.g. Crystal 2001, Beißwenger & Storrer 2009) have compared CMC to the spoken and written modes of communication, others have compared specific forms of CMC to the spoken and written modes, for example, email (Yates 1996, Baron 1998, Baron 2003, chat (Schulze 1999, Greenfield & Subrahmanyam 2003, Zitzen & Stein 2004, Al-Sa'di & Hamdan 2005 and IM (Ferrara et al 1991, Voida et al 2002, Tagliamonte & Denis 2008, Jones & Schieffelin 2009). The general consensus seems to be that CMC has features from both spoken and written forms, but that the language is distinct enough from both to be considered as a separate mode of communication.…”

Section: Computer Mediated Communication (Cmc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Children Online

Baron

Rayson²,

Greenwood³

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IJCL

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The collection of representative corpus samples of both child language and online (CMC) language varieties is crucial for linguistic research that is motivated by applications to the protection of children online. In this paper, we present an extensive survey of corpora available for these two areas. Although a significant amount of research has been undertaken both on child language and on CMC language varieties, a much smaller number of djatasets are made available as corpora. Especially lacking are corpora which match requirements for verifiable age and gender metadata, although some include self-reported information, which may be unreliable. Our survey highlights the lack of corpus data available for the intersecting area of child language in CMC environments. This lack of available corpus data is a significant drawback for those wishing to undertake replicable studies of child language and online language varieties.

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Section: Computer Mediated Communication (Cmc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Children Online

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IJCL

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“…They are semiotically different from other types of language use in that they depict, or mimic, rather than describe, the event they refer to. Thus, DRS exhibits particular design features (Holt, 1996) like (a) shift of personal, spatial, and temporal deixis toward the site of the reported talk; (b) prosodic marking; and (c) enquoting devices like she said or like (Fox Tree & Tomlinson, 2008;Jones & Schieffelin, 2009).As a selective depiction of another's action, DRS is embedded in narrative. This creates a binding problem (Levinson, 2006) for participants who 4 have to parse the often fast-paced switches between those narrative components grounded in the immediate context and those grounded in the context being recounted.…”

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Reported Speech in Conversational Storytelling During Nursing Shift Handover Meetings

Bangerter

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Doehler

2011

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Shift handovers in nursing units involve formal transmission of information and informal conversation about non-routine events. Informal conversation often involves telling stories. Direct reported speech (DRS) was studied in handover storytelling in two nursing care units. The study goal is to contribute to a better understanding of conversation in handover and use of DRS in storytelling in institutional contexts. Content analysis revealed that the most frequent sources quoted were oneself and patients, followed by physicians and colleagues. Further, DRS utterances are preceded by reports of situations, actions, and other reported speech, often constituting the climax of a story. Conversation analysis revealed how DRS participates in multimodal reenactments, complaints about patients, and justifying deviations from medical protocols. Results inform understanding of the uses of DRS in institutional storytelling, show how they index relevant membership categories and related knowledge and expectations, and serve as resources for making sense of non-routine events.High-reliability organizations like hospitals maintain task continuity around the clock (Roberts & Bea, 2001;Weick & Roberts, 1993). Thus, work is often organized in shifts. Shift changes occur several times per day and are punctuated Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Adrian Bangerter, Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2009 Neuchâtel, Switzerland. E-mail: adrian.bangerter@unine.ch , , 1 Published in Discourse Processes 48, issue 3, 183-214, 2011 which should be used for any reference to this work by shift handover meetings (hereafter, handovers) during which relevant task information is transferred from an outgoing shift to an incoming one. In nursing care units, handovers serve to transfer relevant patient information. Handovers are complex events (Grosjean, 2004): They are formal communicative routines conducted according to specific roles while also allowing informal conversations. Informal conversation during handover serves to make sense of ambiguous, non-routine events, thereby helping nurses construct and update a shared understanding of the current state of the care unit. However, little is known about how informal conversation facilitates the emergence of shared understanding. Much information transferred during handovers is in narrative form (e.g., stories about noteworthy incidents, circumstances justifying a medical order, or conflicts with patients). Stories are vivid, collectively elaborated, grounded in experience, and constitute important means of creating shared understanding in professional groups (Orr, 1996). Thus, they may be a means by which nurses create shared understanding. Despite the theoretical and practical importance of understanding stories in handover conversations, there has been little research on this topic.Here we study the interactional functioning of reported speech (RS) in handover storytelling. RS is using "talk to report ...

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“…However, previous variationist studies have been rather silent regarding the question of how to define internal monologue. Indeed, with few exceptions Buchstaller 2004;Romaine and Lange 1991;Jones and Schieffelin 2009), the variationist sociolinguistic enterprise has not been informed by recent debates in the fields of cognitive and anthropological linguistics about the pragmatic properties of quotes, especially regarding the enquoting of epistemic stance, evidentiality and attitudes (see also Besnier 1993;Clark and Gerrig 1990;Pascual 2002Pascual , 2006.…”

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Quotations across the generations: A multivariate analysis of speech and thought introducers across 5 decades of Tyneside speech

Buchstaller

2011

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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This paper reports on changes in the system of speech and thought introducers that are brought about by the adoption of innovations. Quantitative variationist analysis of a newly created corpus that spans 5 decades of conversational recordings in North-Eastern England investigates three questions: (1) What effect do extralinguistic and intralinguistic variables have on the relative distribution of the variants diachronically? (2) What are the determinants of change? (3) To what extent do different strategies of variable definition, in particular choices about the inclusion of internal states, determine the outcome of the investigation?Innovative methodology allows me to pinpoint the loci of the change that has been sparked by the intrusion of innovations, both in terms of repository of forms but also regarding the constraints that condition the whole system.

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Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be+like in Instant Messaging

Cited by 97 publications

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Reported Speech in Conversational Storytelling During Nursing Shift Handover Meetings

Quotations across the generations: A multivariate analysis of speech and thought introducers across 5 decades of Tyneside speech

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