Interactional sociolinguistics

Author(s):  
Cynthia Gordon ◽  
Deborah Tannen
1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Johnson ◽  
Agnes Weiyun Yang ◽  
Penelope Brown ◽  
Stephen C. Levinson

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Szabla ◽  
Jan Blommaert

Abstract‘Context collapse’ (CC) refers to the phenomenon widely debated in social media research, where various audiences convene around single communicative acts in new networked publics, causing confusion and anxiety among social media users. The notion of CC is a key one in the reimagination of social life as a consequence of the mediation technologies we associate with the Web 2.0. CC is undertheorized, and in this paper we intend not to rebuke it but to explore its limits. We do so by shifting the analytical focus from “online communication” in general to specific forms of social action performed, not by predefined “group” members, but by actors engaging in emerging kinds of sharedness based on existing norms of interaction. This approach is a radical choice for action rather than actor, reaching back to symbolic interactionism and beyond to Mead, Strauss and other interactionist sociologists, and inspired by contemporary linguistic ethnography and interactional sociolinguistics, notably the work of Rampton and the Goodwins. We apply this approach to an extraordinarily complex Facebook discussion among Polish people residing in The Netherlands – a set of data that could instantly be selected as a likely site for context collapse. We shall analyze fragments in detail, showing how, in spite of the complications intrinsic to such online, profoundly mediated and oddly ‘placed’ interaction events, participants appear capable of ‘normal’ modes of interaction and participant selection. In fact, the ‘networked publics’ rarely seem to occur in practice, and contexts do not collapse but expand continuously without causing major issues for contextualization. The analysis will offer a vocabulary and methodology for addressing the complexities of the largest new social space on earth: the space of online culture.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. e40296
Author(s):  
William Kirsch ◽  
Simone Sarmento

The purpose of this study is to discuss the discourse practice of microteaching in a teaching community consisting mainly of students pursuing the teacher certification in English as an Additional Language in southern Brazil. The study relies on qualitative methods of data generation and analysis as well as on the framework of interactional sociolinguistics. Results suggest microteaching is a highly complex practice, with a recurring pattern. Additionally, they suggest that students who are considered successful in a microteaching session are those who produce such pattern in their micro-classes. We conclude by suggesting that informing participants about the expectations regarding the structure of microteaching before they engage in it is desirable.


Author(s):  
Lucía Cantamutto

ABSTRACTThis  paper  is  part  of  a  larger  study  on  mobile  communication  in  the  Spanish  language  variety  of  Buenos  Aires (Argentina)  and  the  peninsular  Spanish  (Spain)  from  a  sociolinguistic  and  pragmatic  perspective,  which  aims  to  identify discursive  regularities  and  phenomena  of  pragmatic  variation,  and  associated  to  contextual  variables.  Communication  via SMSes, subscribed to “electronic style” (Vela Delfa 2005, 670), progressively has distinguished characteristics that differen-tiate  it  from  other  communications  produced  in  digital  environment.  In  the  analysis,  we  consider  the  how,  on  one  hand, despite the brevity required by character-limit, pragmatics elements of expressive, appellative, phatic functions of language are  verified,  and,  second,  how  these  issues  reflect  attitudes  related  to  rapport  management  between  speakers,  therefore, questions of (im)politeness and, in addition, negotiation of image. These linguistics practices associated with digital literacy, as knowledge to be acquired, impact on social practices and attitudes derived from the adaptation to the context of interac-tion. Central features of pragmatic aspects related to (im)politeness, which were collected by test of social habits (Hernández Flores, 2002) implemented in both study communities, will be presented. The present study is framed within the Interactional Sociolinguistics’  approach,  concepts  from  Cyberpragmatics(Yus,  2010)  and  sociocultural  Pragmatics.  We  follow  Spencer-Oatey (2000-2011) and Fant & Granato (2002) in the study of rapport management.RESUMENEste trabajo forma parte de un estudio más amplio sobre la comunicación por teléfono móvil en la variedad lingüísti-ca del español bonaerense (Argentina) y del español peninsular (España) desde una perspectiva sociolingüística y pragmática, que tiene por objeto identificar regularidades discursivas y fenómenos de variación pragmática, asociados a variables sociolin-güísticas y contextuales. Las comunicaciones por SMS, inscritas en el estilo electrónico (Vela Delfa 2005,670), progresivamente han distinguido características propias, que las diferencian de otras comunicaciones producidas en entornos digitales. En el análisis atendemos al modo en que, por un lado, a pesar de la brevedad —exigida por el límite de caracteres—, se verifican elementos pragmáticos vinculados a las funciones expresiva, fática y apelativas del lenguaje y, por otro, a cómo estas cuestiones reflejan actitudes vinculadas a la gestión interrelacional entre hablantes y, con especial atención a cuestiones de (des)cortesía verbal y, adicionalmente, negociación de imagen. En tanto prácticas lingüísticas vinculadas a la literacidad digital, como cono-cimiento y habilidades repercuten, en parte, en prácticas sociales y actitudes derivadas de la adecuación al contexto de interac-ción. Se presentan características medulares de aspectos pragmáticos relativos a la (des)cortesía verbal recogidos con test de hábitos sociales (Hernández Flores 2002) implementados a 219 hablantes en ambas comunidades de estudio entre septiembre de 2013 y febrero de 2014. El presente estudio se enmarca en los lineamientos de la sociolingüística interaccional e integra concep-tos de la ciberpragmática (Yus, 2010) y la pragmática sociocultural. Por otra parte, para la conceptualización de la gestión interrelacional, consideramos a Spencer-Oatey (2000) y a Fant y Granato (2002).


Author(s):  
Joseph Gafaranga

Research in code-switching, undertaken against the backdrop of very negative attitudes towards the concurrent use of two or more languages within the same conversation, has traditionally been geared towards rehabilitating this form of language use. From being seen as a random phenomenon reflecting the user’s lack of competence, code-switching is currently seen as sign of an advanced level of competence in the languages involved and as serving different interactional functions. This chapter discusses in some detail the research effort which has led to the rehabilitation of code-switching, with a special focus on studies conducted from a socio-functional perspective. Key paradigms in this perspective are covered, including Gumperz’ interactional sociolinguistics model, Myers-Scotton’s markedness (rational choice) model and Auer’s and Gafaranga’s conversation analytic model of code-switching. In turn, this overview of existing research serves as a context for the challenge the study of code-switching is face with, namely that of its continued relevance.


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