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The Lyon’s team research task consists in the study of the way in which multilingual resources are mobilized in team work within collaborative activities; how they are exploited in a specific way in order both to enhance collaboration and to respect the specificities of the members’ linguistic competences and practices within the team. Central to our analytical work, which is inspired by ethnomethodological conversation analysis, is the relationship between multilingual resources and the situated organization of linguistic uses and of social practices.
Varietäten im Diskurs
(2011)
Der Beitrag präsentiert ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung zum Dialekt-Standard-Gebrauch in einer Schulklasse im mittelschwäbischen Sprachraum (vgl. KNÖBL 2008). Dabei wird auf das Erkenntnisinteresse, die Datengrundlage und die Analysemethode eingegangen. An Analysebeispielen wird gezeigt, dass sich die in der Untersuchung kombiniert eingesetzten quantitativ und qualitativ orientierten methodischen Verfahren ergänzen. Die variablenanalytisch und interaktionsanalytisch gewonnenen Ergebnisse belegen, dass bei den untersuchten Lehrern und Schülern der Gebrauch linguistischer Formen strukturiert ist und in Bezug zu kommunikativen Anforderungen steht.
As an Introduction to the Special Issue on "Formulation, generalization,
and abstraction in interaction,’’ this paper discusses key problems of a conversation
analytic (CA) approach to semantics in interaction. Prior research in CA and
Interactional Linguistics has only rarely dealt with issues of linguistic meaning in
interaction. It is argued that this is a consequence of limitations of sequential
analysis to capture meaning in interaction. While sequential analysis remains the
encompassing methodological framework, it is suggested that it needs to be complemented
by analyzing semantic relationships between choices of formulation in
the interaction, ethnography, and structural techniques of comparing selected
options with possible alternatives. The paper describes the methodological approach
taken to interactional semantics by the papers in the Special Issue, which analyse
practices of generalization and abstraction in interaction as they are accomplished
by formulations of prior versions of reference and description.
This paper analyses one specific conversational practice of formulation
called ‘notionalization’. It consists in the transformation of a description by a prior
speaker into a categorization by the next speaker. Sequences of this kind are a
‘‘natural laboratory’’ for studying the differences between descriptions and categorizations
regarding their semantic, interactional, and rhetorical properties:
Descriptive/narrative versions are often vague and tentative, multi unit turns,
which are temporalized and episodic, offering a lot of contingent, situational,
and indexical detail.
Notionalizations turn them into condensed, abstract, timeless, and often
agentless categorizations expressed by a noun (phrase) within one turn
constructional unit (TCU).
Drawing on audio- and video-taped German data from various types of interaction,
the paper focuses on one particular practice of notionalization, the formulation
of purportedly common ground by TCUs prefaced with the connective also.
The paper discusses their turn-constructional and morphological properties, pointing
out affinities of notionalization with language for special purposes. Notionalizations
are used for reducing detail and for topical closure. They provide grounds for
emergent keywords, which can be reused to re-contextualize topical issues and
interactional histories efficiently. Notionalizations are powerful means for accomplishing
intersubjectivity while pursuing (sometimes one-sided) practical relevancies
at the same time. Their inevitably perspective design thus may lead to re-open
the issue they were deemed to settle. The paper closes with an outlook to other
practices of notionalization, pointing to dimensions of interactionally relevant
variation and commonalities.
Medizinische Kommunikation
(2011)
Linguistic variation and linguistic virtuosity of young “Ghetto”-migrants in Mannheim, Germany
(2011)
In this paper, we provide an insight into the life world and social experiences of young Turkish migrants who are categorised by German society as “social problem cases”. Based on natural conversational data, we describe the communicative repertoire of one migrant adolescent and that of his friends. Our aims are (a) to isolate those linguistic features that convey the impression of “foreignness”, and stand out among other German speakers’ features, and (b) to analyse the variability in our informants’ discursive practices - i.e. code- or style-switching, as it is commonly referred to in the literature - in order to show how variation serves as a communicative resource. Our findings show that these adolescents’ remarkable linguistic proficiency and communicative competence contrast markedly to their low educational and professional status.
Industrielle Prozessmodellierung als kommunikativer Prozess. Eine Typologie zentraler Probleme
(2011)
Der Beitrag diskutiert mündliche Interaktionen als Bestandteil industrieller Prozessmodellierungsmethoden unter dem Aspekt der dabei auftretenden kommunikativen Probleme und ihrer systematisierenden Darstellung. Die vorgestellte Typologie stützt sich auf die gesprächsanalytische Auswertung authentischer Daten einer Feldstudie, in der die Methodik der industriellen Prozessmodellierung in einem Unternehmen exemplarisch durchgeführt wurde. Die Methodik ist kommunikationsintensiv; sie enthält ein breites Spektrum mündlich, schriftlich und grafisch-symbolisch zu bearbeitender Aufgaben. Die ermittelten Probleme ihrer Bearbeitung lassen sich drei Bereichen zuordnen: vorhabensbezogene, arbeitsorganisationsbezogene und kommunikationsbezogene Probleme. Jeder Bereich umfasst Untertypen von Problemen, die aus dem Vollzug sprachlich-kommunikativer Handlungen resultieren und/oder sich sprachlich manifestieren. Zwei weitere Problembereiche – Transformations- und Multimodalitätsprobleme – werden genannt, aber nicht ausführlich behandelt. Die Ergebnisse der Studie werden für die Gestaltung von Kommunikationstrainings für Ingenieure genutzt.
This paper aims at contributing to the analysis of overlaps in turns-at-talk from both a sequential and a multimodal perspective. Overlaps have been studied within Conversation Analysis by focusing mainly on verbal and vocal resources; taking into account multimodal resources such as gesture, bodily posture, and gaze contributes to a better understanding of participants’ orientations to the sequential organization of overlapping talk and their management of speakership. First, we introduce the way in which overlaps have been studied in Conversation Analysis, mainly by Jefferson (1973, 1983, 2004) and Schegloff (2000); then we propose possible implications of their multimodal analysis. In order to demonstrate that speakers systematically orient to the overlap onset and resolution we analyze the multimodal conduct of overlapped speakers. Findings show methodical variations in trajectories of overlap resolution: speakers’ gestures in overlap display themselves as maintaining or withdrawing their turn, thereby exhibiting the speakership achieved and negotiated during overlap.
This paper offers a detailed analysis of the opening of an international meeting. English Lingua Franca as the official language of the meeting is actively discussed and negotiated by the participants. The analysis highlights the issues identified by the participants themselves in choosing a linguistic regime for their professional exchanges. The English Lingua Franca regime is aimed at facilitating the participation of some of the participants, but creates problems for others, too. The chairman deals with this situation in an embodied way (through his gaze, gesture, bodily postures, and by the way in which he walks through the room), displaying that he orients to different member categories (such as 'anglophone', 'anglophone who can understand French', 'francophile', etc.) as benefitting from or resisting against the definitive language choice.