Material and embodied resources in the accomplishment of closings in technology-mediated business meetings

Pragmatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuire Oittinen
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Restricted Access ◽  
Business Meetings ◽  
Physical Setting ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
Leave Taking

Abstract This study uses conversation analysis (CA) and video-recorded data from an international company to investigate closings in technology-mediated (i.e. distant) meetings. The focus is on the situated affordances and multimodal resources that the chair and participants deploy to transition from meeting talk to a coordinated exit. Due to restricted access to bodily-visual leave-taking behaviours, other mutually recognized practices need to be implemented to initiate and advance closings: (1) when closing is made relevant as the next step, (2) when opportunity spaces to move out of the closing emerge, and (3) when departure from the meeting needs to be negotiated. This progression requires the close coordination of co-participants’ vocal and embodied conduct in the physical setting and rendering actions publicly intelligible via the screen at specific moments. The analysis portrays closings as emergent, collaborative accomplishments, in which the import of multimodal turn constructions and (dis)aligning behaviours must be negotiated in situ.

Same Context, Different Strategies

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Chan
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Politeness Theory ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Business Meetings ◽  
Practice Framework

This paper uses audio and video data to examine the discourse of a New Zealand IT company director in business meetings. Three examples of the director dealing with behaviour by his subordinates that he wants to influence are analysed by drawing on a collection of discourse analytic frameworks including conversation analysis, social constructionism, politeness theory, and a community of practice framework. The examples reveal that the director employs a range of discursive strategies to express his disapproval and to rationalise his feedback. At times he adopts indirect and mitigated strategies, while at other times he uses explicit and authoritative strategies. Moreover, the examples also demonstrate the dynamic nature and the complexity of interaction. The analysis shows that the director’s choice of strategies in these examples is a response to the specific discourse context and represents the result of negotiation between interlocutors, and that the giving of negative feedback occurs as a sequence of utterances instead of one single utterance. Finally it is suggested that the strategies used by the director are relevant resources because of the close relationships between the director and his subordinates and the shared repertoire of the focus workplace.

scholarly journals The Closing Sequences and Ritual Expressions of Informal Mobile Phone Calls Between Saudis: A Conversational Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mahzari
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Leave Taking ◽  
Landline Telephone

Although much work has been conducted on studying conversational openings of telephone and ritual expressions, conversational closings and ritual expressions have received less attention by researchers due to the complexity and difficulty of identifying the beginning of closings in telephone conversations. The parts of closing and ritual expressions on telephone have been examined in some languages, but Arabic has not been studied in landline telephone or mobile phone. Therefore, this study seeks to identify the sequences and ritual expressions between Saudi friends and relatives to explore the strategies of closing informal mobile phone calls by using a conversation analysis approach. Thirty audio-recorded and transcribed mobile phone conversations served as the data source for this study. The results found that the majority of mobile phone closing conversations include three parts: pre-closing, leave taking, and terminal exchange that are similar to many languages such as English, Japanese, and German. Also, various expressions were used in pre-closing and leave taking sequences, but the expressions of using prayers were used more frequently in the sequences. Finally, closing conversation is affected by various external and internal social factors in the sequences and the use of ritual expressions.

scholarly journals Dynamic Analysis of the Evolution of Cereus peruvianus (Cactaceae) Areas Attacked by Phoma sp.

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Gyorgy FESZT ◽  
Lucica MIHALTE ◽  
Radu SESTRAS
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Air Humidity ◽  
Sensitive Species ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
A Value ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
Growth Differences ◽  
High Level

Cereus Peruvianus (night blooming Cereus, or peruvian apple) is one of the sensitive species to Phoma attack. Photographic images can intercept a certain phytopathology, at a certain moment. The computerized analysis of such an image turns into a value the spread which the phytopathological process has at that moment. The purpose of this study is to assimilate the technique of achieving successions of digital photos of Cereus peruvianus f. monstruosa attacked by Phoma sp. Parallely with recording the images, with the help of Rhythm digital temperature humidity controller, were recorded data about the green house microclimate (air humidity-minimum and maximum, temperature-minimum and maximum). In the first stage of the study, the attack presents small fluctuations, reaching a high level in days with low temperatures. So, the most significant growths were recorded in the periods: 10. 02. 2005-20. 02. 2005 with an affected area of 10.97-8.82 = 2.15 and 11. 03. 2005-22. 04. 2005 with growth differences of 14.67-13.32 = 1.35. Generally, the affected areas grow in days with low minimum temperatures. The great advantage of this technique is represented by the possibility of using in situ in home areas of species or crop plants in fields. Repeated images, achieved in time, then overlapped, can provide important data on the evolution of affected areas.

Embodied orientations towards co-participants in multinational meetings

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassiliki Markaki ◽  
Lorenza Mondada
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
Business Meetings ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
The Way

The interactional organization of meetings is an important locus of observation for understanding the way in which institutions are talked into being. This article contributes to this growing body of research by focusing on turn-taking and participation in business meetings, approached within conversation analysis in a sequential and multimodal way. On the basis of a corpus of video-recorded corporate meetings of a multinational company, in which managers coming from several European branches convene, the article takes into consideration the embodied orientations of the participants as they address each other, as they turn to particular addressees or groups in a recipient designed way while describing, informing, announcing events and results, and as they make relevant specific participants’ identities – especially national categories – and, in this way, display specific local expectations regarding rights and obligations to talk and to know.

‘Positioning’ in the conversation analytic approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Day ◽  
Susanne Kjaerbeck
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Do So

From the perspective of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA), the concept of positioning may offer a compellingly rich metaphor for understanding identity and relations. There appears, however, to be no such analytical concept in EM/CA. Instead, the EM/CA approach offers concepts such as alignment-affiliation, identities and membership categories — all of them based on actional resources on the micro-level of talk. The aim of this article is to inquire if EM/CA tools for the analysis of identities and relations in talk might be considered interesting from the perspective of positioning theory. To do so, we offer EM/CA analyses of narrative and non-narrative data in which the in situ negotiation of identities and relations plays a major role.

scholarly journals Effect of Continuous Contour Trenches on Nutrient Status of the Micro-catchment

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-311
Author(s):  
R. M. Wankhade ◽  
R. S. Patode ◽  
M. B. Nagdeve ◽  
V. V. Gabhane ◽  
C. B. Pande
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Soil Nutrient ◽  
Nutrient Status ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Small Catchment ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
Status Analysis ◽  
Made In

The adoption of in-situ soil and water conservation techniques are the need of the day all over the country. Taking into consideration this logic, the experiment on practical implementation of the conservation measures along with impact assessment was undertaken at AICRP for Dryland Agriculture Dr. PDKV, Akola. In which impact assessment of continuous contour trenches (CCTs) on hydrological, agronomic, soil nutrient status has been made. In this paper the results related to soil nutrient losses are presented. The small catchment was divided into two parts one is treated with CCTs and other is without CCTs. From the recorded data and nutrient status analysis, it was observed that in CCT treated (T1) micro-catchment Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium was more by 25 %, 15.31% and 9.96% respectively over untreated (T2) micro-catchment. The micro-nutrients viz. Zinc, Ferrous, Magnesium and Copper in CCT treated micro-catchment was observed more by 15.56 %, 7.70%, 23.07% and 37.54% respectively over untreated (T2) micro-catchment. The pH and EC was also observed to be more in CCT treated (T1) micro-catchment as compared to untreated (T2) micro-catchment. These results conclude that in CCT treated micro-catchment the losses of nutrients had been reduced which ultimately useful for plant growth. Thus continuous contour trenches are useful for conservation of soil nutrients.

scholarly journals Toimintaa lukemisen ja kirjoittamisen rajapinnalla

2018 ◽  
pp. 134-158
Author(s):  
Riitta Juvonen ◽  
Sara Routarinne
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Response Evaluation ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
New Literacy Studies ◽  
Literacy Events ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Collaborative Construction ◽  
Recorded Data

This article takes a new literacy studies’ view on literacy as a socially constructed practice. In the context of environmental studies in elementary school, it looks at the development of literacy through literacy events, such as the reading of factual texts and completion of pedagogic tasks related to them (taking notes, filling in worksheets, underlining, etc.). First, a multimodal conversation analysis was applied to video-recorded data from two different fourth-grade lessons. From this, we identified a reading comprehension task that combined reading with a collaborative construction of questions about a text. This involved the students fitting their writing and editing activities to teacher-led initiation-response-evaluation (IRE) sequences, with both the teacher and students monitoring the temporal unfolding of activities. By video-shadowing selected students, we are able to show what the students take from the instruction and within which limits they make choices in their own actions. These are displayed through the use of tools and manipulation of textual objects.

scholarly journals Disclosing violence in calls for help

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Tennent ◽  
Ann Weatherall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Direct Reference ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
Victim Support ◽  
Effects Of Violence

© 2019, equinox publishing. Violence against women is a pervasive problem, both in New Zealand society and around the world. Yet assessing the scale and effects of violence is difficult, as many women face barriers to disclosure. This paper examines women's disclosures of violence in calls for help to a victim support agency. We use conversation analysis and focus on membership categorisation to describe the different ways disclosures are built and understood in situ. It was only in a minority of cases (around 20%), that callers made direct reference to violence, or categorised themselves explicitly as victims, albeit with indications of problems in speaking. However, for the majority, women did not mention the words 'victim' or 'violence' at all. Instead, culturally shared knowledge associated with categories of people (e.g. ex-partners) and places (e.g. home and jail) were used to build and interpret a description as a disclosure of violence. Our work contributes to an understanding of women's disclosures of violence by examining them directly in the setting where they occur. We discuss some of the insights gained from examining interactions in situ, and the practical applications of our work for improving services for women who have experienced violence.

Interactional management of face-threatening acts in casual ELF conversation: an analysis of third-party complaint sequences

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayu Konakahara
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Politeness Theory ◽  
Face Negotiation ◽  
Face Saving ◽  
Complaint Sequences

AbstractThis paper investigates how English as a lingua franca is used to manage adversarial moments in casual conversation among friends, using conversation analysis and politeness theory. It presents a single case analysis of face negotiation devices utilized in two cases of third-party complaint sequences, in which complaints are made about someone else who is not present. The two cases to be analyzed were extracted from recordings of conversation of international students in British universities. The analysis revealed that the interactants utilize verbal and nonverbal devices, which are sometimes linguistically inexplicit but nonverbally resourceful, in a pragmatically sensitive manner in situ, thereby saving mutual face, intensifying the degree of face-threatening, or expressing disaffiliation in a face-saving way.

‘Two’s company, three’s a crowd’

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Houen ◽  
Susan Danby
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dyadic Relationships ◽  
Restricted Access ◽  
Preschool Classroom ◽  
The Third ◽  
Physical Access

This paper examines how young children mobilize interactional resources to position peers as neither fully included nor fully excluded in a preschool classroom. A single case of a video recording of three preschool-aged girls was analysed using conversation analysis. Two girls restricted access to a third girl and positioned her on the periphery in peer activity. The third girl’s entry into the activity was restricted through the other two’s claims of object ownership, limited physical access to objects, multi-modal practices that diverted attention away from the coveted objects, and assessments and sanctions around engagement with an object. The recurrent attempts to keep out the third girl were undertaken through partitioning. Findings highlight how children protect dyadic relationships.

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