22. Conversational coherence in small group chat

Markman, Kris M.

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“…An early finding, as reported by Black et al (1983), was that this feature encourages participants to initiate and advance multiple sequences in parallel and in multi-party settings, even to engage in several discussions within one common message feed. Later studies have examined in more detail how the existence of multiple lines of activity shapes the design of turns in chat and messaging (e.g., Werry 1996;Örnberg Berglund 2009;Markman 2013).…”

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Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction. Practices, Resources, and Affordances

Koivisto¹,

Vepsäläinen²,

Virtanen³

2023

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This book offers a collection of state-of-the-art conversation analytic work on the impact of different types of digital technologies and media on social interaction. It furthers our understanding of whether and to what extent the varying practices of digital interaction can be considered adaptations of the basic organisations and resources of co-present face-to-face interaction. The chapters explore the emerging practices in contemporary digital interaction and in interaction related to digital technologies. The volume is organised into four sections according to the platform or type of digital interaction: mobile messaging, social media, video conferencing, and human-computer interaction. Each of the chapters highlights an interactional or linguistic phenomenon – an action, a practice, a sequence, or a larger structure. Some of these are unique to online environments, such as emojis or hashtags, whereas some occur in both online and offline interaction, such as repair initiators and proposal sequences.

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Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction. Practices, Resources, and Affordances

Koivisto¹,

Vepsäläinen²,

Virtanen³

2023

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“…CA has been applied to the investigation of CMC by several researchers (e.g. Garcia & Jacobs, 1999;Markman, 2013;O'Neill & Martin, 2003). Our study also addresses the question of whether CMC in Esperanto includes linguistic features that could be attributed to the specific channel of communication and make the language different from the Esperanto that we have described thus far.…”

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Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

Fiedler

Brosch

2022

Studies in World Language Problems

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As its title suggests, this book is concerned with the use of Esperanto. In our experience, very few people know that this language really is used, in both writing and speech, and that it has found speakers all over the world. To a certain extent, even to us, it is sometimes hard to imagine that a language created by a single person at his desk has developed for more than a hundred and thirty years to become a fully fledged means of communication. It is our wish to provide insights into as many fields and ways in which Esperanto is applied as possible, and we do hope that the book will find an open-minded reader who is willing to embark on this description and to gain their own impression based on the facts that we present.The research leading to the results presented in this book received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (grant agreement 613344, project MIME). This support is gratefully acknowledged. MIME stands for "Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe". It is a research project on multilingualism that over the four years of its operation (2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018) brought together more than 70 researchers in eleven disciplines and from 22 universities and research institutes in 16 countries. The authors of this book worked in a research group dealing with the optimal use of mutually complementary strategies for communication in multilingual settings, such as translation and interpreting, the development of receptive skills within language families (so-called intercomprehension) and machine translation. Our team at the University of Leipzig was responsible for the use of lingua francas. As English is presently the language mainly associated with this term, English functioning as a lingua franca was the focus of our research, with investigations into migration and study-abroad contexts (see, for example, Fiedler & Brosch [eds.], Brosch, 2019).Because of our background as Esperanto speakers, we felt motivated to extend our studies to another language that has been used as a lingua franca, the planned language Esperanto. We were encouraged to continue this work when, in a comparison among the strategies studied within the framework of MIME as regards costs, user independence, linguistic accuracy, and inclusion, we found that some of the labels seemed to fit for English as a lingua franca, but not for Esperanto and could therefore not be verified as characteristics of a lingua franca as such. This was the starting point for exploring in more detail what the practice of Esperanto communication looks like, how successful the members of the international speech xx Esperanto -Lingua Franca and Language Community community are in the use of their language, and where we can find similarities and differences when comparing the use of English and Esperanto in comparable contexts. The results of this investigation are found in this book.The book is written in English. This choice of language was not difficult, given that English is the dominant language used to report research findi...

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“…Problems related to interactional coherence in CMC have been discussed in many articles. Some focused on many-to-many chat communication (e.g., Herring, 1999;Markman, 2013), others on email and newsgroup communication (e.g., Severinson Eklundh, 2010), instant messaging (e.g., Baron, 2010), forum discussions (e.g., Lapadat, 2007) and YouTube comments (e.g., Bou-Franch et al, 2012). Herring (1999) published one of the first studies on this topic, describing frequently used methods to ensure coherence between messages by different interlocutors in group chats.…”

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Syntactic variation and interactional coherence in online communication: The German conjunction “weil” in written interactions

Glaznieks

2022

Psychology of Language and Communication

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The current study presents an analysis of a linguistic device supporting interactional coherence in computer-mediated communication (CMC). The analysis focused on the use of the German causative conjunction weil and, more specifically, on the syntactic variation of verb-final versus verb-second word order in the weil-clause. Verb-final word order in German indicates a dependent clause, whereas verb-second word order indicates an independent clause. While only the former is accepted in written Standard German, the latter is well documented in oral communication. Relying on freely available Facebook, WhatsApp, and Wikipedia corpus data, the analysis shows that both grammatical constructions are used in written CMC. In a specific usage across discrete messages, the syntactic variation of the weil-clause can serve to unambiguously identify its reference clause. While verb-final weil-clauses can be used to refer to previous messages by both an interlocutor and oneself, verb-second weil-clauses are predominantly used to relate to an own previous message. Thus, the syntactic variation in weil-clauses can be used for disambiguating references in written interactions.

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22. Conversational coherence in small group chat

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction. Practices, Resources, and Affordances

Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction. Practices, Resources, and Affordances

Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

Syntactic variation and interactional coherence in online communication: The German conjunction “weil” in written interactions

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