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- Aronsson, Karin
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Commentary 1. Doing family : An interactive accomplishment
- 2006
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - : De Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 26:4-5, s. 619-626
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Within contemporary work on talk-in-interaction, there has as yet been more of a focus on work places and other public institutions (cf. the classical volume of Drew and Heritage 1992) than on our first institution, the family circle. But for the work of Elinor Ochs and collaborators (e.g.,Capps and Ochs 1995; Ochs et al. 1996) or Blum-Kulka (1997), there has been comparatively little work on the mundane conversations of families. In their critique of traditional theorizing on families, scholars like Giddens (1992) and many feminist writers rely on interviews, media phenomena, and introspective data, rather than on detailed observations of daily family routines. This special issue o¤ers a welcome contribution to contemporary explorations of family life in that it is devoted to the documentation and analysis of spontaneous conversations in the everyday lives of families. In my commentary on these papers, I will treat such conversations as the building blocks of what constitutes a family.
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- Cekaite, Asta
(författare)
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Subversive compliance and embodiment in remedial interchanges
- 2020
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - : DE GRUYTER MOUTON. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 40:5, s. 669-693
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines normativity of affect and the affective embeddedness of normativity, instantiated as verbal and embodied stances taken by the participants in adult-child remedial interchanges. The data are based on one year of video fieldwork in a first-grade class at a Swedish primary school. An ethnographically informed analysis of talk and multimodal action is adopted. The findings show that the childrens affective and normative transgressions provided discursive spaces for adult moral instructions and socialization. However, the childrens compliant responses were resistant and subversive. They were designed as embodied double-voiced acts that indexed incongruent affective and moral stances. The findings further revealed several ways of configuring embodied double-voiced responses. The children juxtaposed multiple modalities and exploited the expectations of what constitutes appropriate temporal duration, timing, and shape of nonverbal responses. They (i) combined up-scaled verbal and embodied hyperbolic rhetoric when the teachers talk required but minimal responses, and (ii) configured antithetical affect displays, e.g., crying and smiling, or overlaid bodily displays of moral emotion (sadness, seriousness, and smiling) with aligning but exaggerated gestures and movements. Subversive, embodied double-voiced responses simultaneously acquiesced with and deflected the responsibility and effectively derailed a successful closure of remedial interchange.
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- Cekaite, Asta, et al.
(författare)
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The moral character of emotion work in adult-child interactions
- 2020
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - : DE GRUYTER MOUTON. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 40:5, s. 563-572
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This special issue furthers a view in which affective stances are seen as indexical of culturally specific structures of feeling and norms concerning what counts as appropriate conduct in particular settings. The link between affect and everyday morality in the development and negotiations of moral personhood, identities and character work is demonstrated in the empirical studies that examine how affective stances are mobilized by drawing social boundaries, and by criticizing or sanctioning what counts as morally appropriate behaviors in adult-child socializing encounters embedded in time and space. The contributions highlight how socialization into particular forms of moral orders engages issues of affect, and how socialization into affect is permeated with moral work. The special issue draws on two major theoretical perspectives: the interactional perspective involving multimodal interaction analysis and the linguistic anthropologic view on language socialization that considers language use and cultural re-production to be interrelated. The socializing potentials of adult-child interactions, particularly in episodes involving the handling of normative transgressions and practices revolving around moral issues (conflicts, disciplining, non-compliance, negative affect and regulation of emotions), provide a fruitful site for uncovering otherwise rarely articulated normative socio-cultural assumptions of how to perform actions, display knowledge, express emotions and maintain relationships.
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- Ekström, Mats, et al.
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The joint construction of a journalistic expert identity in studio interactions between journalists on TV news
- 2011
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 31:6, s. 661-681
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The overall aim of this study is to examine how journalistic expert identities are constructed and displayed in the context of intraprofessional journalist-to-journalist interviews on live television news. Previous research has, in detail, explored how journalists orient to the identity of a critical and impartial interrogator, especially in political news interviews. By focusing on journalistic expert identities, this article contributes to a wider perspective on the multiple and changing identities performed in contemporary journalism. The overall argument is that the expert identity is enabled and promoted in collaborative activities on different levels of discourse such as: (i) the media format, (ii) the question–answer based organization of the interaction, (iii) the orientation to liveness, and (iv) how knowledgeability and epistemic stance are constructed and displayed in the actual design of questions and answers. The data consist of interviews from the prime-time news program Aktuellt, broadcast on Swedish public service television in 2008 and 2009.
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- Eriksson, Ann-Marie, 1964, et al.
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Supervision at the outline stage: introducing and encountering issues of sustainable development through academic writing assignments
- 2015
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 35:2, s. 123-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Universities are responsible for introducing students to disciplinary fields and their knowledge traditions. A common way to cater for processes of this kind is to organize students' work through the production of text in a genre common in their field. Previous research has pointed to the challenges involved as students appropriate disciplinary ways of reasoning through writing, yet further attention needs to be directed to the communicative challenges involved at the very beginning of the process. Based on 14 video-recorded face to face encounters between environmental experts and individual MSc Engineering students, this study focuses on supervision at the outline stage of producing a report, and explores it as a communicative practice. The results from our study show how the students' outline documents functioned as resources for separating the performing of a study from the crafting of its textual presentation. The results also illuminate, in detail, how access points to disciplinary reasoning and arguing were introduced through verbal discourse.
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- Eriksson, Göran, 1964-
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Politicians in celebrity talk show interviews : the narrativization of personal experiences
- 2010
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 30:5, s. 529-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article concerns interviews with politicians taking place on a popular talk show. These interviews are informal and playful in character, and above all are structured around personal narratives of the “real life” or “behind-the-scenes life” of the guest. It is often claimed that such interviews have become more important for the politicians. The approach of the study addressed in the article is influenced by research on conversational storytelling and aims at exploring how politicians' more personal narratives are initiated and elaborated on by the participants. The data are comprised of six interviews with leading politicians on a Swedish celebrity talk show, Sen kväll med Luuk [Late night with Luuk]. The analysis shows that personal narratives progress in close collaboration between the host and the politician, and that this collaboration often aims at exploring the humor potential of the stories and invoking laughter from the studio audience. The main argument in this article is that for politicians an appearance on a celebrity talk show is not such a trouble-free method for self-presentation as is often assumed.
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- Eriksson, Göran, 1964-, et al.
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Web-TV as a backstage activity : Emerging forms of audience address in the post-broadcast era
- 2019
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 39:1, s. 47-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Taking off from the Media Talk approach, this paper examines the communicative work of a Swedish sports webcast football show, Superlive,asan emerging form of web-based media format called Web-TV. This analysis is situated in a context in which broadcasting is going through fundamental changes, and broadcasters are rethinking their content in order to face the challenges arriving with recent decades’ technological developments, and espe-cially the fact that television is no longer restricted to being broadcast but can be distributed through the web and be received on PCs, tablets and mobile phones. In this ‘post-broadcasting era’ producers are searching for new ways of reaching audiences through creating new forms of audience address. Superlive is a good example of these changes and how broadcasters now explore the possibilities of producing television exclusively for the Web. The analysis shows that what is taking place in Superlive is clearly in contrast to the performances one could expect in the conventional broadcast. Through the participants’ favoring of an interactional style characterized by informality and spontaneity, this show situ-ates itself as backstage to the conventional forms of airings. As a result, this discursive space implies an interactional orientation to “co-presence” with the audience.
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- Erman, Britt, 1941-, et al.
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Formulaic language in L1 and advanced L2 English speech : multiword structures in the speech of two Swedish groups compared to a group of L1 English speakers
- 2024
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 44:2, s. 175-196
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the study was to compare the use of formulaic language, here called multiword structures, in advanced L2 English speech of two Swedish groups with a group of first language (L1) speakers of English. One Swedish group was resident in London and one in Stockholm, thus implying different degrees of exposure to English. Three categories, notably multiword phrases, multiword utterances and metalinguistic multiword structures, were investigated by comparing quantity and distribution. The groups completed two oral tasks, a role play and a retelling task. The results of the Swedish group resident in London were similar to the L1 English group on all measurements of multiword structures in the role play. In the retelling task multiword phrases were significantly fewer in both second language (L2) groups compared to the L1 English group, although there were L2 individuals within the L1 speaker range. Another question concerned the extent to which the three groups used multiword structures which were equivalents, i.e. transferable between English and Swedish. In the retelling task both Swedish groups produced significantly more equivalents than the L1 speakers. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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- Evaldsson, Ann-Carita, 1958-, et al.
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Co-constructing a child as disorderly : Moral character work in narrative accounts of upsetting experiences
- 2020
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Ingår i: Text & Talk. - : DE GRUYTER MOUTON. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 40:5, s. 599-622
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores how displays of strong emotions in narrative accounts of emotional experiences provide a context for invoking moral accountabilities, including the shaping of the teller's character. We use a dialogical approach (i.e., ethnomethodology, linguistic anthropology) to emotions to explore how affective stances are performed, responded to and accounted for in episodes of narrative accounts. The analysis is based on a case study that centers on how a child's walkout from a peer dispute is managed retrospectively in narrative constructions in teacher-child interaction. It is found that the targeted child uses heightened affect displays (crying, sobbing, and prosodic marking), to amplify feelings of distress and stance claims (incorporating reported speech and extreme case formulations) of being badly treated. The heightened stance claims work to justify an oppositional moral stance towards the reported events while projecting accountability to others. The child's escalated resistance provides a ground for the teacher's negative uptakes (negative person ascriptions, counter narratives, and third-party reports). The findings shed light on how narrative renderings of upsetting experiences easily become indexical of the teller's moral character and adds to dispositional features of being over-reactive and disorderly, in ways that undermine a child's social position.
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