Language Choice and the Multilingual Soundscape: Overhearing as a Resource for Recipient-Design in Impromptu First-Time Encounters

IF 3 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Research on Language and Social Interaction Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/08351813.2022.2128003
P. Hänggi
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ABSTRACT When previously unacquainted people spontaneously strike up a conversation in multilingual public space, a fundamental practical problem with which they may be faced is language choice. Using video recordings of naturally-occurring first-time encounters collected in a variety of public settings, this article shows that one way of calibrating initial language choice in emergent encounters is by taking advantage of overhearables in the immediate environment. Analysis demonstrates how incidentally co-present individuals who are within earshot of one another aurally monitor co-present others and accountably exploit their sensory access to a previously-in-progress interaction for then implementing a recipient-oriented, linguistically fitted action when moving into focused interaction, thereby using overhearing as an occasioned resource for recipient-design. The analysis contributes to the study of openings between strangers in public space and our understanding of the relation between embodied participation and everyday multilingualism-in-interaction. Data are in (lingua franca) English, French, Italian, Standard German, and Swiss German.
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语言选择和多语言音景:在初次即兴接触中作为听者设计资源的无意听
摘要当以前不熟悉的人自发地在多语言的公共空间里进行对话时,他们可能面临的一个根本的实际问题是语言选择。利用在各种公共环境中收集的自然发生的首次相遇的视频记录,本文表明,在紧急相遇中校准初始语言选择的一种方法是利用直接环境中的偷听者。分析表明,在彼此听得见的范围内,偶然出现的共同在场的个体如何在听觉上监控共同在场的其他人,并负责任地利用他们对先前进行中的互动的感官访问,然后在进入集中互动时实施以接受者为导向的、符合语言的行动,从而使用窃听作为接收者设计的引起的资源。该分析有助于研究陌生人在公共空间中的开放,以及我们对体现参与与日常互动中使用多种语言之间关系的理解。数据采用(通用语言)英语、法语、意大利语、标准德语和瑞士德语。
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