Some systematic aspects of self-initiated mobile device use in face-to-face encounters
- This paper investigates self-initiated uses of mobile phones (such as texting or making a call) in everyday video-recorded conversations among Czech speakers. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it illustrates how participants publicly frame their own device use (for example, by announcements), and how co-present interlocutors respond to it. Previous studies have described how participants manage two concurrent communicative involvements, but have not provided detailed sequential descriptions of how device use can be negotiated and accounted for. This study shows that mobile device use in co-presence is not a priori problematic (or vice versa). Instead, participants frame their technology use in different ways according to various features of the social situation they treat as momentarily relevant. These features include the course of the conversation and how the device use relates to it, the overall participation framework and the opacity of the device use for co-present others.
Author: | Florence Oloff |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-651475 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2019.21 |
ISSN: | 2569-6491 |
Parent Title (German): | Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics |
Publisher: | Institut für Deutsche Sprache |
Place of publication: | Mannheim |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/05/03 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/05/03 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/12/21 |
Tag: | accounts; announcements; conversation analysis; multimodal analysis; mundane technology use; ordinary conversation; smartphones |
Volume: | 2.2019 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 41 |
First Page: | 195 |
Last Page: | 235 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 490320902 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-478105 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |