TY - JOUR A1 - Oloff, Florence T1 - Some systematic aspects of self-initiated mobile device use in face-to-face encounters T2 - Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics N2 - 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. KW - conversation analysis KW - multimodal analysis KW - ordinary conversation KW - mundane technology use KW - smartphones KW - announcements KW - accounts Y1 - 2021 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65147 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-651475 SN - 2569-6491 VL - 2.2019 IS - 2 SP - 195 EP - 235 PB - Institut für Deutsche Sprache CY - Mannheim ER -