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- Aronsson, Karin
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Commentary 1. Doing family : An interactive accomplishment
- 2006
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In: Text & Talk. - : De Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 26:4-5, s. 619-626
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)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
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Subversive compliance and embodiment in remedial interchanges
- 2020
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In: Text & Talk. - : DE GRUYTER MOUTON. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 40:5, s. 669-693
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
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The moral character of emotion work in adult-child interactions
- 2020
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In: Text & Talk. - : DE GRUYTER MOUTON. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 40:5, s. 563-572
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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In: Text & Talk. - Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 31:6, s. 661-681
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
(author)
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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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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 35:2, s. 123-153
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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In: Text & Talk. - Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 30:5, s. 529-551
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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In: Text & Talk. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 39:1, s. 47-75
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
(author)
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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
- 2022
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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
(author)
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Co-constructing a child as disorderly : Moral character work in narrative accounts of upsetting experiences
- 2020
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In: Text & Talk. - : DE GRUYTER MOUTON. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 40:5, s. 599-622
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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- Ganuza, Natalia, 1977-, et al.
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Turning talk into text : the representation of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish fiction
- 2024
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In: Text & Talk. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines the literary representation of contemporary urban vernaculars (CUV) in fiction. It focuses specifically on four Swedish novels published in the last ten years, whose narratives are set in the urban and increasingly multilingual, migrant-rich and class-stratified peripheral areas of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The analysis centers on how they are situated in these urban peripheries, using written representations of spoken, non-standard Swedish CUV as symbolic resources to give authenticity to the narratives. We examine the distinctive linguistic features that are employed to evoke the imagination of CUV, and how these are used to build the fictional characters and to create certain recognizable social personas and practices. We also discuss the linguistic features that are available but are not exploited to represent the fictional characters’ ways of speaking, and possible reasons why this is so. Finally, we examine how the novels exploit contrasts between registers, particularly between CUV and adult second-language speaker styles and between CUV and standard Swedish, and with what effects. The findings are discussed in the context of the broader social discourses about language, migration, CUV and adult second-language speakers in present-day Sweden.
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- Gerholm, Tove, 1968-
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From shrieks to "Stupid poo" : emotive language in a developmental perspective
- 2018
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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 38:2, s. 137-165
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to highlight and describe the forms of verbal emotive utterances that appeared in a longitudinal corpus of 11 Swedish children interacting with parents, siblings and friends. The children were in the ages 0;9 to 5;10 and were recorded four to six times during a two-year period. The verbal emotive expressions of the material are divided into the categories Descriptive versus Accompanying utterances. Descriptive utterances are emotive mainly from semantic conventions, whereas Accompanying utterances are emotive due to prosodic and contextual traits. The categories are illustrated and related to conventions, language development and cognitive growth. By classifying and labeling verbal expressions as emotive in different ways, it is argued that we can gain a better understanding of how language is used when intertwined with emotions, but also that we access a way to compare and investigate emotive language in a more thorough manner.
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| 13. |
- Hofstetter, Emily, et al.
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Getting service at the constituency office : Analyzing citizens' encounters with their Member of Parliament
- 2018
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In: Text & Talk. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 38:5, s. 551-573
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, we present an analysis of how constituents procure services at the constituency office of a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. This paper will investigate how several previously documented interactional practices (e.g. entitlement) combine at the constituency office in a way that secures service. From a corpus of 12.5 hours of interaction, and using conversation analysis, we examine constituents’ telephone calls and meetings with constituency office staff and the MP, identifying practices constituents use. First, constituents opened encounters with bids to tell narratives. Second, constituents presented lengthy and detailed descriptions of their difficulties. These descriptions gave space to manage issues of legitimacy and entitlement, while simultaneously recruiting assistance. Third, we examine ways in which constituents display uncertainty about how the institution of the constituency office functions, and what services are available. The paper offers original insights into how constituency services are provided, and how constituency offices give access and support to ordinary citizens, while expanding the conversation analytic literature on institutional service provision.
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- Hommerberg, Charlotte, 1960-
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Bringing consumption reviews into relief by combining appraisal and argumentation analysis
- 2015
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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 35:2, s. 155-175
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent years have seen a rapid influx of reviews in the field of different aesthetic and consumption domains, which is indicative of the importance assigned by present-day society to what we choose to experience and consume. Given their prevalence, there is a need to find an adequate analytic framework which allows insightful understanding of the discursive construction of such reviews. This paper aims to propose such a framework by combining tools from the Appraisal model with ideas from argumentation theory. The combined methodology is demonstrated using one text from a corpus of wine reviews written by the extraordinarily influential wine critic Robert Parker. The analysis takes into consideration both meanings that are internal to the text and meanings that are text-external, so-called world knowledge. I argue that the technique of reconstruction adopted from argumentation theory helps to highlight and explain how the appraisal works in the text. The findings are generalizable to the extent that the methodology can be used for any type of review text, especially in the domain of present-day luxury consumption, which is not overtly argumentative but which can still be found to have an assessment-basis format that leads its readers towards a certain worldview that they are invited to co-construct and see as rational.
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- Idevall Hagren, Karin, et al.
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National discourses in (de)legitimations of the Swedish COVID-19 strategy
- 2023
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In: Text & Talk. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden's way to handle the crisis was referred to as 'the Swedish strategy' and regarded as unconventional. Most studies of the Swedish strategy have focused on politicians' legitimations, but not on the discursive negotiation in a media context. The objectives of this critical discourse study are to examine how the Swedish strategy was (de)legitimised in Sweden's largest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, during 2020, and what role national discourses played for discursive framings of the Swedish strategy. Using legitimation analysis combined with affect as a discourse analytical concept, we examine 71 newspaper articles. The findings show how a nationalistic framing highlights trust and responsibility as key aspects of the strategy, but also how trust and responsibility are used in delegitimations with additional frames, such as consequences for individuals' everyday lives, or the frame of an international scientific community. The findings shed new light on the role of national discourses in the initial internal debates about Swedish COVID-19 management, and on the usefulness of an analytical approach that considers an elaborated analysis of different delegitimation strategies and the importance of affect for discourses and (de)legitimations.
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| 16. |
- Karlsson, Anna-Malin
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Fixing meaning : on the semiotic and interactional role of written texts in a risk analysis meeting
- 2009
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In: Text & Talk. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 29:4, s. 415-438
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article aims to contribute to the study of professional discourse by focusing on the role of written texts in complex communication processes. It also aims to contribute to the field of social semiotics by problematizing the concept of grammatical metaphor, framing it multimodally and interactionally. The case in focus is a risk analysis meeting which is characterized by explicit definitions of goals and methods: the objective of risk analysis is to identify and evaluate potential risks that might threaten a project. However, the activity also has other goals, such as finding common ground and developing a joint perspective in the project group. Managing these divergent agendas is possible given the technique developed and the tools used-small pieces of paper, pens, a whiteboard, whiteboard markers, and oral conversation. In the choice of resources for different purposes, materiality is crucial. Because of the affordances of the small notes and the thick ink marker, the individual risks are thingified at an early, stage, while oral conversation is used for problematization and negotiation. In the minutes, the construal of risks as things is preserved and contributes to the reification and thus technification of similar meanings in the social practice of the organization.
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- Ledin, Per, 1962-, et al.
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Performance management discourse and the shift to an administrative logic of operation : a multimodal critical discourse analytical approach
- 2016
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In: Text & Talk. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 36:4, s. 445-467
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper, using multimodal critical discourse analysis, explores a chain of performance management documents in a university which aim to meet the goal of increasing output and excellence. A system of performance management developed by Kaplan and Norton in the 1990s, which enables both tangible and also “intangible assets” such as “quality” and “excellence” to be monitored and measured, is now used fairly universally to structure the running of public institutions. Looking in detail at one case, we show that the result is an abstraction and de-contextualization of processes and agents, through a series of interlocking texts, lists and tables that follows an administrative, rather than task led, logic of operation. We show how the discourse is legitimized on the one hand by the very impenetrable nature of the resulting interlocking documents and by the Web of Science database on the other. We give reasons why the database itself is highly problematic and also show the abstract ways in which it is communicated and how it leads to research in all subject areas being codified and standardized in a “one-size-fits-all” way. This, we argue, serves the purposes of naturalizing and justifying notions of “quality,” “excellence” and “value for money” that have been promoted in service of neoliberal politics.
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- Lindgren, Simon
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Introducing Connected Concept Analysis : A network approach to big text datasets
- 2016
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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 36:3, s. 341-362
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper introduces Connected Concept Analysis (CCA) as a framework for text analysis which ties qualitative and quantitative considerations together in one unified model. Even though CCA can be used to map and analyze any full text dataset, of any size, the method was created specifically for taking the sensibilities of qualitative discourse analysis into the age of the Internet and big data. Using open data from a large online survey on habits and views relating to intellectual property rights, piracy and file sharing, I introduce CCA as a mixed-method approach aiming to bring out knowledge about corpuses of text, the sizes of which make it unfeasible to make comprehensive close readings. CCA aims to do this without reducing the text to numbers, as often becomes the case in content analysis. Instead of simply counting words or phrases, I draw on constant comparative coding for building concepts and on network analysis for connecting them. The result - a network graph visualization of key connected concepts in the analyzed text dataset - meets the need for text visualization systems that can support discourse analysis.
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| 19. |
- Lundmark, Sofia, et al.
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Analogies in interaction : Practical reasoning and participatory design
- 2016
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In: Text & Talk. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 36:6, s. 705-731
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The present study examines a set of discussions among professional counselors in the area of youth counseling, as they participate in the development and design of an online video-mediated communication platform. With an overarching interest in how participatory design is performed through conversations, the analysis focuses on analogical reasoning through which the envisaged system is anchored to existing technologies and work practices. Three forms of analogical reasoning are identified: formulating design alternatives; challenging problem formulations; and telling stories. In various ways, these forms of analogical reasoning inform the ongoing design decision-making process, where the hypothetical technology and its organizational and work-related implications are evaluated. The study contributes to how analogical reasoning is done in interaction, and places the findings in the context of participatory design and studies of design reasoning.
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- Paradis, Carita
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"This beauty should drink well for 10-12 years" : a note on recommendations as semantic middles
- 2009
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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 29:1, s. 53-73
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper capitalizes on the types of portrayal of the event in recommendations of prime drinking time using data from wine tasting notes. It argues that the weakly deontic nature of recommendation fosters semantic middles; not only the middle construction proper such as This beauty should drink well for 10–12 years, but recommendation as such is characterized by a mid-degree of transfer of action in the utterances. In spite of the fact that the event expressed in recommendations involves highly transitive structures, i.e., an actor, an undergoer, and a dynamic event, the actual staging of the recommendations at the time of use is similar to the staging of the middle construction. The various formal differences between the recommendations are examined in terms of the relative salience of the roles played by the semantic participants and the dynamicity of the event. The upshot of the study is that the middle quality is directly derived from the discourse function of recommendation.
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- Reneland-Forsman, Linda, 1962-
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Toward a broader understanding of social talk in Web-based courses
- 2012
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In: Text & Talk. - Walter de Gruyter : Walter de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 32:3, s. 349-369
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The interactive potential of computer-mediated communication has proved more difficult to realize than expected. This study tries to break away from the normative status of speech underlining computer-mediated communication by asking how social talk is manifested in web-based learning environments. The asynchronous communication of 55 students during a study period of 18 weeks was studied using mediated discourse analysis. Students were training for pre-school teachers in 4-years program. Students’ ability to create a group culture seemed significant for how they developed group autonomy and were able to handle unexpected incidents or a loose framing. Communication was narrative and lengthy in character and trusts and confidences were dropped off as part of a constant construction of group culture. These students did not adopt or develop known means of compensating for the loss of non-verbal clues. There were indications of sharing private concerns and information from other practices in life as a conditional aspect of participation. When having trouble to cope, it was the youngest students who failed.
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- Rindstedt, Camilla
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Conversational openings and multiparty disambiguations in doctors' encounters with young patients (and their parents)
- 2014
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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 34:4, s. 421-442
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Drawing on a video ethnography at a pediatric unit at a Swedish children's hospital, this study presents analyses of How are you (HAY) routines and problem elicitations. Such conversational openings are ambiguous in that they can either be read as casual greetings, or as genuine questions about the patient's health. Moreover, there is a double ambiguity in that the doctor, at times, employs third person pronouns (e. g., How is Elinor?) or second person plurals (e. g., So how are you doing?) which means that there is a second type of ambiguity, an ambiguity around who is addressed: the child and/or the parent(s). This study also shows that there is a great variation in conversational openings according to the age of the child in that the odds that the doctor might invite the child as a conversational partner increase with the child's age. The preschool children almost never respond to the doctor's HAY, and it does not matter if it is an ambiguous or unambiguous question. If they answer, it is in the form of a minimal uptake or after a whole series of questions. In contrast, the schoolchildren always respond to the doctors' HAY and offer quite elaborate and detailed responses.
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- Sahlée, Anna, 1977-
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Time as a base for establishing structure in text : toward a visualization model
- 2016
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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 36:4, s. 493-517
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Following Halliday and Hasan (1976, Cohesion in English. London: Longman; Halliday and Hasan 1989, Language, context, and text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press), text can be defined and studied as a united whole. A "text" which does not appear as a united whole can be very hard to understand and describe. Since this kind of text exists for example in the form of student writing, it is important to have methods and models which can handle all kinds of compositions coherent and clearly structured and the opposite. This article suggests such a model. Relative to available methods, it is beneficial for understanding and comparing many different texts. The model is based on temporal unfolding of texts, realized primarily by tense and Aktionsarten. It uncovers the basic structure of the text and visualizes it - a combination that makes the text accessible for further analysis. Four texts with different structures from the national test in Swedish and Swedish as a second language are used to demonstrate the model. The model is used to discuss and compare the texts and how the students respond to the given instruction. It is shown what information the model reveals and how analysis and information can be added; in this case means for understanding the narrative text.
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- Svahn, Johanna, et al.
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Talking moral stances into being : the interactional management of moral reasoning in Aggression Replacement Training (ART) classroom sessions
- 2013
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In: Text & Talk. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 33:6, s. 793-815
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The present paper explores the accounting practices through which alternative moral stances are talked into being, and made sense of, as children account for the morally charged topic of "fighting." Data are drawn from ethnographic work, combined with video recordings of classroom sessions informed by the ART (Aggression Replacement Training) moral reasoning training program, in a fifth-grade class in a Swedish elementary school. An ethnomethodological approach is taken toward how features of the talk-in-interaction during these sessions indirectly make available systems of accountability motivated by institutionalized standards to talk about morality in a certain way. As will be demonstrated, the teachers' use of reversed polarity questions, assertions, and formulations work to hold children accountable for producing a certain moral stance. It is found that the children have learned to artfully design their contributions (justifications, detailing, second-stories, event descriptions, extreme cases) so that they can both comply with and subvert the institutionalized standards at the same time.
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- Tholander, Michael, 1965-, et al.
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The ART of apologizing : Entering the black box of an intervention program
- 2021
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In: Text & Talk. - Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 41:1, s. 95-117
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- During recent decades, evidence-based treatment programs havebecome a given part of the youth justice system. Typically, such programs areevaluated through quantitative effect studies, in which a variety of outcomemeasures play a significant role. This case study offers an alternative, interactionalevaluation of a treatment program. More specifically, the analysis focuses on anAggression Replacement Training (ART) session that was held at a youth detentionhome in Sweden. In this session, two trainers and three detained adolescent boysperform an exercise that serves to teach the latter various apology practices. Adetailed, conversation analytic examination of the interaction in the session showsthat the trainers repeatedly problematize the boys’ contributions in a kind ofdeviant-making enterprise. Thus, rather than recognizing competencies that dobecome visible through closer inspection, the trainers one-sidedly highlight lackand deficiency. It is argued that the interpretative frame of ART, with its focus onpathologization, individualization, and responsibilization, amplifies the incarceratedboys’ deviancy, hence symbolically locking them up in a second, nonmaterialor discursive, sense.
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| 26. |
- Toyota, Junichi
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Disagreement of feminine gender: historical perspectives
- 2012
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In: Text & Talk: an interdisciplinary journal of language, discourse & communication studies. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1860-7349 .- 1860-7330. ; 32:1, s. 63-82
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- In this paper a particular case of grammatical gender agreement system is discussed, concerning the referent of young females or small children. These referents are grammatically treated as neuter nouns, disregarding their biological sex. This is termed gender disagreement. It is argued here that this is due to the older classification of nouns based on active and inactive distinction, stemming from the active alignment. What decides the distinction is the ability to reproduce, which was once a characteristic of active nouns. This criterion has not been given much attention in analyzing modern languages, but it has been very persistent in spite of various sociocultural factors that forced changes in other parts of grammar Thus, it can be claimed that gender disagreement is a result of a shift of gender agreement criteria and persistency of a specific criterion, i.e., the ability to reproduce proves to be still an important criterion in gender agreement system in modern languages.
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- Warnicke, Camilla, 1971-, et al.
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The use of the text-function in Video Relay Service calls
- 2021
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In: Text & Talk. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 41:3, s. 391-416
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The objective of the current study is to investigate whether and how the text-function offered in the Video Relay Service (VRS) is used and to demonstrate how its use affects the interaction of participants within this setting. The VRS facilitates calls between a person using signed language via a videophone and a person who is speaking via a telephone. An interpreter handles the calls and simultaneously interprets between the users and has direct contact with both users. All participants are physically separated from each other. The data consist of 12 recordings from the regular VRS in Sweden and the method used is Conversation Analysis. The findings show that typed text is used to: 1) conduct a repair; 2) pre-empt problems; 3) recycle text; and 4) overcome language differences.
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- Wikström, Peter, Fil dr, 1986-
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Acting out on Twitter : Affordances for animating reported speech in written computer-mediated communication
- 2019
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In: Text & Talk. - : De Gruyter Mouton. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349. ; 39:1, s. 121-145
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- Quotative be like is a construction associated with informal spoken contexts and, especially, with various forms of embodied enactments. This study examines instances of quotative be like in a corpus of Twitter data (1,000,000 tweets; 1,113 quotative instances). Special attention is paid to how users of Twitter employ the platform's affordances to animate their speech reports - i.e. to represent voices, enact body language, or otherwise 'dramatize' the speech reports. The aim is to investigate how a linguistic format which is richly embodied in face-to-face interaction gets 're-embodied' on Twitter. The study finds that animation of reported speech on Twitter is visually, and predominantly typographically, afforded. In the material, oral practices are more frequently reconfigured and remediated rather than directly reproduced. That is to say, even when users are not reproducing spoken utterances, they often employ graphical strategies that are mainly understandable by analogy to spoken and embodied face-to-face interaction. However, users also draw on emergent online repertoires with no face-to-face analogues, such as 'pure' typographical play and the recruitment of established online memes. Thus, the findings suggest that orality lingers as a trace, but is not a necessary component, in bringing reported speech to life in a text-based computer-mediated setting.
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- Wirzén, Madeleine, 1984-
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Constructing future parental suitability: prospective adoptive parents’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews
- 2022
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In: Text & Talk. - Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. - 1860-7330 .- 1860-7349.
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- This study examines how Swedish prospective adoptive parents display parental suitability in assessment interviews with social workers. In adoption assessment interviews, applicants are invited, through question-and-answer sequences, to present their knowledge about adoption-related issues and demonstrate their suitability as future adoptive parents. Adoption applicants are also faced with social workers’ attempts to prepare them for future parenthood with advice and guidance. In this high-stakes interaction, however, guidance might indicate the applicants’ lack of central knowledge or insights, which can have potential face-threatening consequences. The data consist of thirty-six hours of audio recorded assessment interviews. Using interaction analytical methods, the analysis shows how adoption applicants engage in the multi-layered task of managing social workers’ guidance while also demonstrating parental suitability. Adoption applicants are found to take on the perspectives presented by social workers, and simultaneously to maintain their own standpoint, using a two-step procedure: (i) they eagerly claim their knowledge and align with the social worker, and (ii) they demonstrate their adoption-specific knowledge or personal characteristics that support the presentation of their parental suitability. The findings provide insights into the practice of assessing prospective adoptive parents and contribute to the understanding of how applicants establish their self-presentations as suitable future parents while adjusting to institutional requirements in situ.
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- Aarsand, Pål Andre, 1970-
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Frame switches and identity performances : Alternating between online and offline
- 2008
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In: Text and Talk. - 1860-7330. ; 28:2, s. 147-165
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study problematizes activity frames and participation frameworks (Goffman 1981), exploring how students deploy online (MSN Messenger) and offline activity frames in identity performances. One problem in analyzing participation frameworks and particularly notions of subordinate forms, like crossplay, byplay, and sideplay, is that these concepts require that the analyst can identify one dominant activity. This was not possible in the present data, which consist of video recordings of computer activities in a seventh-grade classroom. It is shown how MSN (online) identities were invoked in subsequent and intermittent face-to-face interaction, a dialogue that started on MSN would continue in face-to-face interaction, and vice versa. This means that frame switches constituted important features of the students' identity work. Similarly, the students employed nicknames or what are here called tags, that is, textual-visual displays of speaker identities, located in the boundary zone between online and offline activities. In the classroom interactions, there was thus not one dominant activity frame, but rather the activities involved borderwork, and more specifically frame switches and a strategic use of tags. © Walter de Gruyter 2008.
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- Cekaite, Asta
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Shepherding the child: embodied directive sequences in parent-child interactions
- 2010
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In: TEXT and TALK. - 1860-7330. ; 30:1, s. 1-25
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The present study explores how directives are constituted in and through situated verbal, bodily, and spatial practices. The foci are parental directives requesting routine family tasks to be carried out in an immediate situational context and necessitating the childs locomotion from one place to another (e.g., to take a bath, brush his/her teeth). As documented, such directive sequences were designed with what is here called parental shepherding moves, that is, "techniques of the body" (Mauss 1973 [1935]) that monitor the childs body for compliance. Body twist, a form of tactile intervention, was deployed to terminate the childs prior activity and initiate a relevant activity by perceptually reorienting the child in the lived architecture of the home. Tactile and non-tactile steering constituted means for monitoring and controlling the direction, pace, and route of the childs locomotion. Overall, these embodied directives served as multifunctional cultural tools that scaffolded the child into reflexive awareness of the dialogic and embodied characteristics of social action and accountability.
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- Wadensjö, Cecilia, 1954-
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The Shaping of Gorbachev : On Framing in an Interpreter-Mediated Talk-Show Interview
- 2008
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In: Text & talk : an interdisciplinary journal of language, discourse & communication studies. - : Walter de Gruyter. - 1860-7330. ; 28:1, s. 119-146
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- This paper examines a televised interview that BBC journalist and show host Clive Anderson conducted with the former head of state of the dissolved USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, assisted by the interpreter Pavel Palazchenko. The paper explores this interview, focusing on its opening and closing, its local organization, and the involvement of the audience. Applying conversation analysis, the paper traces the generic belonging of current talk and looks into a variety of features that shaped the image of Gorbachev as a television personality in British TV. It demonstrates how Gorbachev and Anderson moved between and played with a ‘talk show interview’ and a ‘news interview’ framing of interaction. The analysis demonstrates how the encounter helped portray Gorbachev as a witty and adequate performer, irrespective of the fact that he did not speak English—the language of the broadcast and of the viewers. This was due to what he said, but no less to how he performed, and not least to his way of utilizing the assistance of the highly skilled interpreter, and also, I will argue, to the fact that the interview allowed him to take part in a shared game of entertainment, in a genuinely hybrid form of talk.
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