From entry proposals to a joint statement: Practices of shared text production in multiparty meeting interaction

Writing-in-interaction

“…Therefore it is not surprising that the invitation to turn from a focus on the final product to a focus on the process of writing has emerged in different fields in independent and unrelated ways, occasioning the re-discovery of writing as a situated, dynamic, productive activity. This makes it hard to draw a linear history of writing research (Nystrand 2005;Prior and Thorne 2014;Bazerman 2007;MacArthur, Graham and Fitzgerald 2005;Jakobs and Perrin 2014). In this introduction, we choose to discuss how three different domains of research -genetic criticism, new literacy studies, and psycholinguistic studies of writing -have redefined their perspective on writing, by refocusing on its production.…”

“…Typical features of such settings are the use of a facilitator and the public writing performed in conjunction with the proposals of the participants. Nissi (2015) has studied a multiparty meeting organized to produce a public written statement with the help of a facilitator. Her analysis concentrates on how the participants' and the facilitator's proposals concerning the text intertwine with the facilitator's writing leading to the production of the actual document.…”

“…Rachel looks again at the text too, and repeats the sentence Mia is writing, with a "written voice" (Nissi 2015), both reading what has been written and confirming what to write (13). As soon as Mia has finished writing the first sentence, Rachel reformulates the next one, building on what Lena has said, including her self-repaired item (15).…”

“…For example, in the meetings analyzed by Asmuss and Oshima (2012), Nissi (2015), and Mondada (2011Mondada ( , 2016, the activity is concentrated on the writing of a collective and shared text (see also De Gaulmyn, Bouchard and Rabatel 2001; Bouchard and Mondada 2005 on collaborative writing) -where the agreement about what is being written is crucial. In other cases, involving note taking rather than shared writing, writing is a way of individually registering a final decision (Stevanovic 2013, 526-527).…”

Spelling out consequences: Conditional constructions as a means to resist proposals in organisational planning process

“…However, the proposal may, for instance, be framed as a thought (Stevanovic, 2013) or as a quotation or a formulation (Nissi, 2015) in order to modify the way the idea is imposed on the recipient or to present a proposal that does not solely belong to the speaker. Proposals may also be intertwined with embodied action and the material resources of the setting (Asmuß and Oshima, 2012;Nissi, 2015;Pälli and Lehtinen, 2014).…”