Interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis

Jaspers, Jürgen

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“…While adopting CA as a primary framework for the microanalysis of audio‐ or video‐recorded interactions, the current study also ventures into offering interpretations of the analyzed instances, by taking a step that can be considered more akin to IS. IS and CA were both informed by Garfinkel's ethnomethodology and Goffman's frame analysis in varying degrees, but they differ in their central concerns, and consequently their treatment of broader contextual knowledge in the analytical procedure (see Antaki, 2009; Bailey, 2015; Jasper, 2013; Rampton, 2020 for a succinct comparison). CA encourages analysts to locate audible or visible evidence in the recorded interactions rather than relying on ethnographic information collected through various methods to speculate on the participants' intentions.…”

Section: A Sequential and Multimodal Analysis Of Workplace Interactionmentioning

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Text, talk, and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work

Mori

Shima

2020

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Japan's rapidly aging population and chronic labor shortages have led the country to consider increased reliance on foreign workers. The government promotes the cultivation of nihongo jinzai ‘Japanese language human resources’ (MOFA, 2013), that is, highly skilled foreign workers proficient in the de facto national language, but in reality, such ideal individuals are scarce. Workplaces thus must explore ways to accommodate workers with limited Japanese competence. By introducing a sequential and multimodal analysis of shift handover interaction between Japanese and foreign care workers at a geriatric facility, the current article critically evaluates the monolingual, logocentric ideology reflected in the ongoing national debate as well as in the institutional convention of information sharing. The examination of the ways in which these workers deploy multimodal semiotic resources for the fulfillment of their duty points to the need for reevaluation of conventional practices in favor of increased affordance of spatial repertoire.

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Section: A Sequential and Multimodal Analysis Of Workplace Interactionmentioning

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Text, talk, and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work

Mori

Shima

2020

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…Silverstein 1993). Even though recognising what signs are indexical, and socially indexical, of is in principle ad hoc 'completion work' (Jaspers 2011a), even for merely denotational use, this completion labour relies on shared common-sense 'methods ' (cf. Garfinkel 1967) that people socialise each other into bringing to bear so as to make sense of themselves, their relation and their environment.…”

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Crisis thinking, sensuous reflexivity, and solving real issues

Jaspers

2016

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The founding modernist move, Richard Bauman and Charles Briggs write in Voices of Modernity, their grand overview of the birth and maturation of modernity, is to "posi[t] a category of tradition, mak[e] it seem autonomous, and then creating new hybrids that contain tradition by virtue of being defined in opposition to it" (2003: 307). Rather than the summary term for an array of historical changes (the onset of capitalism, secularisation, industrialism, and so on), these authors understand modernity as a discursive construction that opposes traditional and modern developments, ways of being, and modes of understanding. Central in this narrative project have been conceptions of language. A first step involved John Locke's imagination of language as a separate, autonomous domain of human intervention, standing apart from nature and from the social world. The second step was his argument that language needed to be purified so that its use could be trusted in these two other domains. In order to make it a tool for the accurate exchange of empirical knowledge, and less dangerously prone to misunderstanding in the political sphere, language needed to be stripped from ambivalence, intertextuality, connotation and emotion-all of them qualities an elite of urban, cosmopolitan gentlemen attributed to the speech of those they found ignorant, superstitious, lower class, indigenous, rural, in sum, premodern. And because purification required education, it was only logical to "claim[…] consciousness and rationality for oneself and one's followers and deny[…] it to others" (Bauman & Briggs 2003: 298)-a move Fabian (1983) earlier called the "denial of coevalness". This logic of temporalisation has been so fundamental, Bauman and Briggs hold, that it was deeply embedded too in the work of later authors like Johann Gottfried von Herder and Franz Boas, although they take up diametrically opposed positions-from Locke, and from each other-in their understanding of the local vs. global, rationality vs. emotion, deficit vs. difference, or individual autonomy vs. community custom. Bauman and Briggs argue moreover that this logic continues to impinge on contemporary visions of large-scale social change:

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“…Greenbank, 2020;Marra & Angouri, 2011). Aligning with this, IS views language as a crucial resource that can be creatively harnessed to construct social structures rather than simply reflecting them (Jaspers, 2011). Recalling the example from Garfinkel described above, we observe that interaction can be streamlined through the shared knowledge (i.e.…”

Section: Doing Interactional Sociolinguistics In a Cmc Contextmentioning

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“…Because interlocutors are unable to say everything they mean explicitly when they communicate, IS posits that they have to rely on the words that are used as well as background knowledge in order to appreciate what is meant and "to discover what others assumed the relevant context was for producing their words in" (Jaspers, 2011, p. 135). Using miscommunication as an example, Jaspers (2011) Garfinkel, 1963, pp. 221-222).…”

Section: Interactional Sociolinguistics As a Methodological Frameworkmentioning

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Identity Construction Online: Identities and Ideologies in Reader Comments in Online News Fora

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The relationship between language and identity remains a core topic of interest in applied (socio) linguistics. The investigation of identity in the online context, however, remains underexplored despite of a mushrooming of participation by users. Adopting a social constructionist perspective which views identities as dynamic and multiple, this thesis investigates how identities are discursively co-constructed in interaction, with close attention paid to the wider sociocultural Discourses and ideologies that impact on these negotiations. I focus on interactions that take place in online news comment boards, with the goal of identifying how commenters discursively construct and negotiate their identities through their comments, addressing the overarching research question: “How is identity constructed and negotiated through comments discourse in an online communication setting?”The dataset includes approximately 3,000 comments collected from the reader sections of news articles published on three different online news websites: Stuff in New Zealand, and The Guardian and Mail Online in the UK. The comments are responses to 40 articles, covering topics focusing on same-sex marriage (an explicitly ideologically-loaded topic) and travel (a topic where ideologies are less overt). All comments were collected within a one-week period following the respective news article’s appearance. This data set allows me to capture the most immediate responses from readers and provides naturally-occurring interactional data to investigate identity construction. In line with the social constructionist stance I view identity as emergent and negotiated within discourse, as a discursive and socially situated phenomenon that is interactionally achieved with other interactants. Through in-depth qualitative discourse analysis supported by thematic coding, the findings demonstrate the interrelationship between commenters’ ideologies and identity construction in online interaction. Interactional Sociolinguistics (IS) with its principled inclusion of both micro and macro considerations is applied to ensure rigour in the discourse analysis and I employ positionality (Bucholtz & Hall, 2005) and Intertextuality (Bakhtin, 1981) to productively narrow the analytic focus. The analysis indicates that salient identities for commenters hinge on constructs of nationality (which in turn interacts with ethnicity) and gender (and relatedly sexuality). This resonates with the concept of intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989), at the core of which is the recognition that macro aspects of identity (e.g. race, sexual orientation, etc.) are overlap and interact with each other in multiple ways. In addition, the findings suggest that these identities are often ‘triggered’ by the positioning of self and other, including the present interlocutor(s) and other characters involved in the interaction, as represented by specific ideologies. In reaching these conclusions I highlight the contextual intricacies of the asynchronous, text-based online environment where traditional contextualisation cues such as gesture, intonation, eye contact, etc are not available. In their stead I demonstrate the omnipresence of ideologies through the lens of the ‘ideal reader’ (Fairclough, 2001). The study thereby draws attention to the affordances of investigating ideologies when exploring identity and emphasises the need for a deeper reflection on the connections between language, identity, and ideology in the online context.

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Interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis

Cited by 8 publications

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Text, talk, and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work

Text, talk, and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work

Crisis thinking, sensuous reflexivity, and solving real issues

Identity Construction Online: Identities and Ideologies in Reader Comments in Online News Fora

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