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Hengst, Julie A.; Sherrill, Martha H. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
This theoretical review article describes "situated discourse analysis" (SDA) and explores its implications for communication sciences and disorders. Drawing on situated theories of cognition and communication, SDA aims to understand "real-time communicative processes" of people engaging in complex "sociocultural…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Sociocultural Patterns, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Ethnography
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Angouri, Jo; Humonen, Kristina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
The paper explores the "in situ" negotiation of in/exclusion in and through language in a multilingual professional setting, paying special attention to the relationship between language and space. We argue that multilingual practices and material space are co-constitutive; individuals enact group membership and professional roles…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Work Environment, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics
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Winchatz, Michaela R.; Sprain, Leah; Poutiainen, Saila; Ho, Evelyn Y. – Communication Education, 2023
In this article, we use grounded practical theory to develop a practical theory for using "difficult data" in Language and Social Interaction university classes. "Difficult data" are transcribed, audio/video-recorded data that contain language and ideologies that could be offensive, bigoted, or otherwise disturbing. We provide…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Student Attitudes, Classroom Communication, Audio Equipment
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Kim, Hyejeong – Language Testing, 2018
This paper aims to identify what aviation experts consider to be the key features of effective communication by examining in detail their commentary on a 17-minute segment of recorded radiotelephony discourse between a Russian pilot and a Korean air traffic controller. The segment was played to three practising pilots and three air traffic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Air Transportation, Traffic Safety, Cross Cultural Studies
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Didi-Ogren, Holly H. K. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This article takes a sociocultural linguistic approach to code switching in investigating discursive functions of shifts between Standard Japanese and a regional dialect (Iwate Dialect) in women's activity-centered, naturally occurring interactions. The paper extends previous scholarship to a consideration of how shifts are used for discursive…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Japanese, Dialects
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Eisenhart, Margaret; Allaman, Erin – Ethnography and Education, 2018
Digital technologies open new windows for ethnographic explorations of cultural experiences. In this paper, we examine text messaging among academically talented teenage girls of colour at three US urban high schools. Texting introduced a new communication modality into the girls' lives and created a space for new discourses mediating their…
Descriptors: Females, High School Students, Ethnography, Talent
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Han, Yanmei – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
This study examines the language practices of Chinese visiting scholars on WeChat and explores the representational meanings of their translanguaging practices. An ethnographic approach combining with systematic observation, WeChat screenshot data and interviews with Chinese visiting scholars is adopted to get hold of the richness of situated…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism, Second Languages, Semiotics
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Creese, Angela; Blackledge, Adrian; Hu, Rachel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This paper considers the construction of social difference in the interactions of a couple as they communicate at home and work, with one another, their colleagues, and strangers in a superdiverse English city. In our linguistic ethnographic approach we observed, wrote field notes, audio-recorded key participants, took photographs, made…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Ethnography, Translation, Code Switching (Language)
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Walker, Dana – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This paper analyses the cultural practices that were introduced in a radio improv class on the first day of Youth Radio Arts for immigrant students, and how these practices served as resources to mediate students' understanding of, and realisation of 'voice' over time. The theory-method combines insights from interactional ethnography and…
Descriptors: Radio, Foreign Students, Ethnography, Theater Arts
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Hellermann, John; Thorne, Steven L.; Fodor, Peter – Classroom Discourse, 2017
Literacy, and particularly reading, is critical to success in schooling and full participation in contemporary societies. As one of the primary skills needed to develop proficiency in a language, the study of reading in additional languages has attracted significant research attention. Focusing on behaviourally visible and locally occasioned…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, English Language Learners, Handheld Devices
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Sterie, Anca Cristina – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2015
At the hospital, nurses' telephone calls to doctors mostly revolve around obtaining doctors' intervention in a medical case. To achieve this, nurses need to make the doctor's intervention relevant, by explicitly requesting it or, more indirectly, by reporting a medical problem. Two recorded telephone conversations have been selected for analysis…
Descriptors: Nurses, Physicians, Speech Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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James, Nalita – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
The article explores how the Internet and email offer space for participants to think and make sense of their experiences in the qualitative research encounter. It draws on a research study that used email interviewing to generate online narratives to understand academic lives and identities through research encounters in virtual space. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Interviews, Qualitative Research, Educational Research
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Gilbuena, Debra M.; Sherrett, Benjamin U.; Gummer, Edith S.; Champagne, Audrey B.; Koretsky, Milo D. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Background: Professional skills are critical in engineering practice. Differing definitions and lack of empirical evidence make it difficult to help students develop these skills. Purpose: This research seeks to understand what it means to have professional skills in an industrially situated capstone project and, by extension, in engineering. We…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Capstone Experiences, Feedback (Response), Chemical Engineering
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Cameron, Catherine Ann; Gillen, Julia – First Language, 2013
This article explores telephone interactions between young children and adult family members as contributing insights to the co-construction of identities within both the nuclear and the extended family. The authors deploy methods of linguistic ethnography to enrich the scope of interpreting the data beyond textual analysis. The study's premise…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Preschool Children, Computational Linguistics, Family Relationship
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De Costa, Peter I. – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2014
Extending earlier research on the concept of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) (e.g., MacIntyre et al., 1998), this paper tests the WTC concept on a secondary school in Singapore where English is used as a lingua franca. In doing so, a layer of complexity is added to the WTC concept. By focusing on classroom interactions involving one immigrant…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Interpersonal Communication, Secondary School Students
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