Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction

Pragmatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ufuk Balaman ◽  
Simona Pekarek Doehler
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Dyadic Interactions ◽  
Social Coordination ◽  
Task Accomplishment ◽  
Task Oriented

Abstract Task-oriented video-mediated interaction takes place within a complex digital-social ecology which presents, to participants, a practical problem of social coordination: How to navigate, in mutually accountable ways, between interacting with the remote co-participants and scrutinizing one’s own screen –which suspends interaction–, for instance when searching for information on a search engine. Using conversation analysis for the examination of screen-recorded dyadic interactions, this study identifies a range of practices participants draw on to alert co-participants to incipient suspensions of talk. By accounting for such suspensions as being task-related through verbal alerts, typically in the form let me/let’s X, participants successfully ‘buy time’, which allows them to fully concentrate on their screen activity and thereby ensure the progression of task accomplishment. We discuss how these findings contribute to our understanding of the complex ecologies of technology-mediated interactions.

scholarly journals Rules at Play: Correcting Projectable Violations of Who Plays Next

Human Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Svensson ◽  
Burak S. Tekin
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
The Social ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Interactional Perspective ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

AbstractThis study examines the situated use of rules and the social practices people deploy to correct projectable rule violations in pétanque playing activities. Drawing on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, and using naturally occurring video recordings, this article investigates socially organized occasions of rule use, and more particularly how rules for turn-taking at play are reflexively established in and through interaction. The alternation of players in pétanque is dependent on and consequential for the progressivity of the game and it is a practical problem for the players when a participant projects to break a rule of “who plays next”. The empirical analysis shows that formulating rules is a practice for indicating and correcting incipient violations of who plays next, which retrospectively invoke and establish the situated expectations that constitute the game as that particular game. Focusing on the anticipative corrections of projectable violations of turn-taking rules, this study revisits the concept of rules, as they are played into being, from a social and interactional perspective. We argue and demonstrate that rules are not prescriptions of game conduct, but resources that reflexively render the players’ conducts intelligible as playing the game they are engaging in.

Sequential organization of hinting in online task-oriented L2 interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ufuk Balaman
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Distinct Type ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Task Oriented

Abstract This study aims to explore the sequential organization of hinting in an online task-oriented L2 interactional setting. Although hinting has been studied within conversation analysis literature, it has not yet been treated as a distinct type of social action. With this in mind, the study sets out to describe the sequential environment of hinting through the unfolding of the action with pre-hinting sequences initiated through the deployment of interrogatives, knowledge checks, and past references; maintained with base hinting sequences initiated through blah blah replacements, designedly incomplete utterances, and metalinguistic clues; and finally progressively resolved with screen-based hinting. Based on the examination of screen-recorded video-mediated interactions (14 hours) of geographically dispersed participants using multimodal conversation analysis, this study provides insights for an overall understanding of the interactional trajectory of hinting as a context-specific social action and contributes to research on L2 interaction in online settings.

Social Interaction Process Analysis of Bengalis' on Orkut®

2010 ◽  
pp. 66-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anupam Das
Keyword(s):  
Process Analysis ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Dyadic Interactions ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Common People ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Message Exchange ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Task Oriented

This study investigates what interlocutors do when they exchange messages on the social network site (SNS) Orkut® and how they do it. In so doing, the study examines the interplay of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) acts, interaction processes, and frequency of message exchange in text-based dyadic interactions of diasporic Bengalis on Orkut®. A total of 48 dyadic interactions were analyzed. The subjects were observed to have produced mostly bona-fide positive socioemotional content, primarily through ‘greet’ and ‘claim’. It was also noticed that dyads who exchange utterances more than global average, produce more task-oriented content than those who exchange utterances less than global average. Task communication is achieved primarily through ‘inquire’ and ‘inform’. ‘Bona-fide positive socioemotional’ content is argued to be providing users’ socio-emotional needs, while ‘task’ communication helps them accumulate social capital. The findings contribute to CMC, pragmatics, and social psychology. It further helps common people understand the benefits of interaction on SNSs.

scholarly journals Classroom Discourse as Institutional Interaction: From the Perspective of Conversation Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 4573-4585
Author(s):  
Hanifah Nur Zulkifly ◽  
Nizaita Omar ◽  
Zulkifly Muda ◽  
Nabilah [email protected] ◽  
Farah Diana Mohmad Zali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Institutional Interaction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Harvey Sacks ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Institutional View

In this study, classroom discourse is chosen as the subject to be analysed in terms of the basic structures of conversation analysis (CA) which are turn-taking organisation, sequence organisation, repair and action formation, as developed principally by Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. As a form of educational talk, classroom interaction should be scrutinised not only in a conversational perspective, but also from an institutional view. Many controversies and debates regarding this particular discourse are present from the conversation analytic point of view, indicating that it is indeed an important subject that need extended studies on. This study analyses learner-learner interaction in task-oriented, learner-centred classrooms, instead of traditional classroom interaction, from the conversation analytic perspective. It helps expanding the research on this subject to a new focus, which is modern classroom interaction.

scholarly journals Orientations to negotiated language and task rules in online L2 interaction

ReCALL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olcay Sert ◽  
Ufuk Balaman
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Task Engagement ◽  
Negotiation Of Meaning ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Interactional Competence ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
And Task

AbstractRecent research shows that negotiation of meaning in online task-oriented interactions can be a catalyst for L2 (second/foreign/additional language) development. However, how learners undertake such negotiation work and what kind of an impact it has on interactional development in an L2 are still largely unknown mainly due to a lack of focus on task engagement processes. A conversation analytic investigation into negotiation of meaning (NoM) in task-oriented interactions can bring evidence to such development, as conversation analysis (CA), given its analytic tools, allows us to see how participant orientations in interaction evolve over time. Based on an examination of screen-recorded multiparty online task-oriented interactions, this study aimed to describe how users (n=8) of an L2 (1) negotiate and co-construct language and task rules and (2) later show orientations to these rules both in the short term (50 minutes) and in the long term (8 weeks). The findings showed that in addition to negotiating existing rules, the learners co-constructed new rules around an action called policing, which occurred when the learners attended to the breach of language and task rules. Furthermore, even after the negotiation work was completed, they oriented to negotiated rules through policing their own utterances (i.e. self-policing). Overall, this interactional continuum (from other-repairs to self-repairs) brought longitudinal evidence to bear on the role of NoM in the development of L2 interactional competence. These findings bring new insights into NoM, technology-mediated task-based language teaching (TBLT), and CA for second language acquisition (SLA).

Coordinating talk and non-talk activity in the airline cockpit

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Nevile
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Airline Pilot ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Airline Flight

Abstract This paper draws on insights and practices of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to explore routine talk-in-interaction in the airline cockpit; that is, the place of pilots’ talk as they establish what is going on around them, what they are doing, who is doing what, when they have completed what they are doing, and what they are to do next. I am interested in features of talk as pilots develop and demonstrate to one another their situated and moment-to-moment understandings in order to perform and complete the tasks necessary to fly their plane. In particular, I examine how pilots coordinate their talk and non-talk activities with split-second precision. This paper shows how pilots precisely coordinate their talk with the placement and movement of their hands as they use various cockpit controls and displays. This precise coordination may be particularly germane in the sequentially task-oriented setting of the airline cockpit, and possibly other sociotechnical workplace settings. Such coordination contributes to what the pilots can ‘know’, moment-to-moment, about the progress of their flight and their conduct of it. The outcome of a precise coordination of talk and non-talk activity is a synchronisation of the pilots’ conduct of a task, and the progress of the flight, as these are represented in talk and as they really are. This paper goes a little way towards an understanding of what it is to be, accountably and recognisably, an airline pilot, and shows how every airline flight is simultaneously and necessarily both a technological triumph and an interactional accomplishment.

scholarly journals The Risky Path to a Followership Identity: From Abstract Concept to Situated Reality

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Larsson ◽  
Mie Femø Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Leadership Identity ◽  
Safe Alternative ◽  
Workplace Interactions ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Task Oriented

Followership research has increased recently, but little attention has been paid to the complexities and challenges of creating a followership identity. Researchers typically portray followership as a safe alternative to leadership identity, but we challenge this assumption by using naturally occurring workplace interactions to identify active contributions as well as risks associated with a follower identity. In this study, we use conversation analysis to examine how people collaboratively construct identities, and how identity development shapes and organizes interactions between people. The findings reveal the risks of misidentifying the task at hand, of being too authoritative, and of claiming too much knowledge. Also, our analyses highlight that leader and follower roles remain abstract in workplace interactions and, instead, people focus more on negotiated, task-oriented, practical identities.

scholarly journals BACKCHANNELS IN THE INTERACTIONS OF INDONESIAN L2 SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH IN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMIC CONTEXT

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indah Tri Purwanti
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Sequential Analysis ◽  
Dyadic Interactions ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Australian English

Abstract: This study investigated backchannels, short verbal responses such as yeah, employed by Indonesian L2 speakers of English in the interactions with L1 speakers of Australian English in Australian academic setting. The naturally-occurring dyadic interactions were audiotaped and scrutinised in a sequential analysis of conversation analysis. The examination was aimed to scrutinise the pragmatic functions and the placement of backchannels within the sequential organisation of the interactions. The findings showed that they used backchannel responses involving non-lexical items, lexical items, and combinations of lexical and non-lexical items. Backchannel responses existed in different linguistic environments that may be culturally specific such as after you know. Backchannels were used to show attentiveness, agreement, and comprehension of the speaker’s talk. Besides, they also employed backchannels to express politeness to satisfy the supervisors’ positive face in the interactions. In this study, they appear to converge their linguistic devices to that of their supervisors. 

A Task-oriented Approach to Search Engine Usability Studies

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isak Taksa ◽  
Amanda Spink ◽  
Robert Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Oriented Approach
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