TY - CHAP U1 - Buchbeitrag A1 - Råman, Joonas A1 - Oloff, Florence ED - Seppälä, Tanja ED - Lesonen, Sirkku ED - Iikkanen, Päivi ED - D'hondt, Sigurd T1 - Mobilising assistance via complaints in digital skills courses for adults T2 - Kieli, muutos ja yhteiskunta – Language, change and society. AFinLAn vuosikirja 2022 N2 - Within a rapidly digitalising society, it is important to understand how the learning and teaching of digital skills play out in situ, particularly amongst older adults who acquire these skills later in life. This paper focuses on participants engaged in the process of learning digital skills in adult education courses. Using video recordings from adult education centres in Finland and Germany, we explore how students mobilise their teachers’ assistance when encountering problems with their smartphones, laptops or tablets. Prior research on social interaction has shown that assistance can be recruited through a variety of verbal and embodied formats. In this specific educational setting, participants can use complaints about their digital skills or mobile devices to obtain assistance. Utilising multimodal conversation analysis, we describe two basic sequence types involving students’ complaints, discuss their cross-linguistic characteristics, and reflect on their connection to this educational setting and digital devices. T3 - Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen julkaisuja - 79 KW - multimodaalinen keskustelunanalyysi KW - aikuiskoulutus KW - digitaaliset taidot KW - avun mobilisointi KW - multimodal conversation analysis KW - Digitalisierung KW - Erwachsenenbildung KW - Kommunikation KW - Interaktion KW - Mobiles Endgerät KW - Multimodalität KW - Konversationsanalyse KW - adult education KW - digital skills KW - mobilising assistance KW - Finnisch KW - Deutsch Y1 - 2022 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-114608 SN - 2343-2608 SS - 2343-2608 SN - 978-951-9388-74-8 SB - 978-951-9388-74-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.30661/afinlavk.114591 DO - https://doi.org/10.30661/afinlavk.114591 SP - 234 EP - 260 PB - Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistys AFinLA CY - Jyväskylä ER -