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Mediating social and informational serendipity

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.010

Jacqueline Militello

This article examines how social serendipity has developed and been transformed in professional networking communicative practices that previously were predominantly in person and are now also digitally mediated through LinkedIn, videoconferencing, and virtual reality. Using a linguistic ethnographic approach, I apply Björneborn’s (2017) theory of serendipity that posits three broad affordances: (1) diversifiability, the ability to meet heterogeneity; (2) traversability, the ability to explore; and (3) sensoriability, the ability to perceive through the senses. Data come from projects on professional networking practices from 2017 through 2023, and include ethnographic observations, interviews, and recorded networking events. Findings show mediating technologies have significantly transformed aspects of the face-to-face networking process, with changes in serendipity, linked to environmental affordances of diversifiability, traversability, and sensoriability. Existing theorizations explain many underlying fundamental aspects of human communication that shape our interactions with humans but newer frameworks are needed to account for the intersection with technologies.

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Depicting force at the potter's wheel

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.009

Eton Churchill

This study examines how performed depictions (Clark, 2016) animate and mobilize bodily force in enskillment. Analysis of 15 h of videotaped interaction at the potter's wheel in Japan illustrates how depictions formed through the use of touch, gestures, and onomatopoeia orient novice attention to aspects of force (e.g., source, path, intensity). The sensei's depictions can serve to initiate instruction on specific skill components, to prompt the novice's work, and to synchronize guidance with the novice's efforts—allowing forces to be analogously co-experienced (Nishizaka, 2017). Across trajectories of action, depictions resonate with earlier instantiations, but are redesigned to emphasize dimensions of force most relevant to the instructional needs of the moment. This study contributes to our understanding of action formation and ascription by illustrating how multimodal resources and the depictions they form (re)configure embodied realizations of force.

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How to teach know-how? Corrective manual demonstrations in teaching construction work

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.008

Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara , Nathalie Schümchen-Schram

Drawing on 20 h of video data from a vocational school construction site, this conversation analytic paper analyzes corrective demonstrations that target the skilled use of task-relevant tools in the context of learning manual work. With narrated demonstrations, the teacher shows the students how to skillfully use the tools and guides their vision to see how the material outcome should be interpreted in materially complex tasks. Orientation to the students' emerging expertise shows in how corrective demonstrations are built on participants’ existing procedural understanding that is redirected by means of corrective demonstration. A crucial element in these multimodally designed demonstrations is tool transfer that marks the beginning and the end of the demonstration sequence.

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Affective place branding: Mediatization of the Wutong-scape in Shanghai

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.012

Jiajie Chen

This article explores the meta-semiotic complexity of place branding through the theoretical lenses of affect and mediatization. Drawing on ethnographic data collected through ‘city-walking’ experiences, photographs of semiotic landscapes, and public discourses on social media, this article investigates how the affective potentials of nostalgic Shanghai are regulated, experienced, modulated and creatively transformed through the dynamic interplay between mediatization, mediation and remediation. The findings suggest two major implications. Firstly, an open-textured but still recognizable realm of affective arrangement emerges within the constant calibration of the three-way interplay in affective place branding. Secondly, consumers enter into such a realm embedded with their reciprocal capacities of affecting and being affected. Their affective resonance with the situated environment ultimately brands the place.

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Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.001

Shonna Trinch, Edward Snajdr

We study how large and small discursive neoliberal moves create contemporary urban space. We explore neoliberalism’s coordinates, how it gets vocalized, and its variously scaled economic realities. The setting is Brooklyn's changing status in 2003 from “outer borough” and marginal to Manhattan to a new economic and cultural center of its own. Focusing on private developer, Forest City Ratner's (FCRC) 2003 Atlantic Yards redevelopment with its large-scale movement of capital and corporate land seizure, we situate our family’s 2003 move to Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood to examine the circulating discourses of gentrification and redevelopment. [ii] The area proposed to be developed as Atlantic Yards has been renamed Pacific Park.

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Human, smartphone and territories of the self

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.009

Lian Malai Madsen, Andreas Candefors Stæhr

In this paper, we interrogate the applicability of Goffman's theory on ‘territories of the self’ to study the relationship between human and the smartphone. We look into how a number of Copenhagen adolescents and their parents reflect on their everyday lives with smartphones. Our analytical framework is based on discursive psychology and positioning analysis. Through this framework we investigate the interpretative repertoires invoked by the participants in their small stories of their everyday life with smartphones and discuss how they relate to territorial concerns. Overall, the analysis suggests that the smartphone creates new conditions for the territorial self as it involves an intersection of the possessional territory, the information and conversational preserves and to some extent the sheath.

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Calibrating hands-on experience and manual know-how in anatomical dissection

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.004

Michael Sean Smith , Oskar Lindwall

Research on instruction in manual skills training has traditionally focused on the practices for displaying understandings that are conveyed via talk or embodied demonstration. Know-how, or the understanding needed for performing a manual skill, however, is necessarily grounded in the practitioner’s sensorial experience of their movements, the tools they use, and the materials they manipulate. As such, sensorial touch is essential to the learning of manual skills, and participants require means for making their sensory experience accessible to one another for coordinating instruction. Building on previous work in practical skills training, this study investigates instructional interactions in cadaveric workshops. Focusing on interactions where a) instructors demonstrate manual actions and articulate tactile experiences, b) trainees attempt to explore anatomical structures, and c) instructors evaluate those attempts, we analyse the embodied and material resources that participants use for making tactile experience accessible, assessable, and thereby instructable in interaction, and how the instruction are consequently organized in pursuing that end.

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Slurs and speech acts

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.003

Aldo Frigerio , Maria Paola Tenchini

In this essay, a multi-act view of the meaning of slurs is defended. According to such view, when a speaker utters a sentence containing a slur, she simultaneously performs two different speech acts, one of which, following Searle's taxonomy (Searle, 1975), is an expressive one. Although this view is a particular version of expressivism, it has many advantages over other versions of this theory. First, it allows a clearer definition of the expressive component of slurs by relating slurs with other sentences in which we express various attitudes, not only contempt. Second, it can explain descriptive ineffability drawing on the fact that non-representative speech acts cannot be reduced to representative ones. Third, it can respond to some powerful criticisms recently directed against expressivism.

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Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.002

Yifan Chen, Qian Gong, Sender Dovchin

Black humour is associated with illness, death, and crisis and is frequently used as grassroots resistance to hegemonic power. However, black humour has received little attention concerning how it is appropriated by the state. Thus, this study contributes to reconceptualise black humour as the anti-epidemic slogans of the Chinese Communist Party by combining Bakhtin's carnivalesque and Van Leeuwen's (2007) legitimation strategies within Critical Discourse Analysis paradigm to investigate how inhumane slogans are legitimised. Our findings reveal that the CCP employs three legitimation strategies–authorisation, moral evaluation, and rationalisation–to maintain its power status through official slogans. This study offers a new perspective on how power relations are sustained and renegotiated through the official language in China.

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Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.007

Iira Rautiainen

This study examines interactional moments of radio use in an adult learning setting, focusing on ways team members in a patrolling exercise participate in their colleague's project in UN military observer training. I show that in training settings, participation involves joint orientation to a shared objective, and it is used to facilitate learning and development of new skills. Radio communication is an emblematic part of UN military observers' work, and it is the way patrols keep in touch with their base. Learning to use the radio is thus an important objective in the training. The data come from authentic simulated military observer training using English as a lingua franca. Findings are scalable to and applicable in various collaborative working and learning settings.

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