Objects in embodied sociolinguistics

Mind the door in research group meetings

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7900924
AutoresSuresh Canagarajah (0000-0002-1292-2366, Pennsylvania State University, autor correspondente), Valeriya Minakova (0000-0003-1888-0811, Pennsylvania State University)
Ano2023
Volume52
Fascículo2
Páginas183-214
Data de publicação2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404522000082
OpenAlexW4220711651
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas38

This article addresses recent calls in sociolinguistics to accommodate the agentive role of material objects in communicative interactions. The study explores how agency is shared between humans and objects, and how the latter may influence and shape the semiotic repertoires in a professional interaction. We adopt interactional sociolinguistics to analyze video recordings from the research group meetings (RGM) of a team of multinational microbiologists in a midwestern American university to demonstrate how the door plays an important role in the RGM genre of discourse. The door serves as a contextualization cue for the opening and composition of the interaction, indexes the participant identities, constructs the interactional space into an ‘ecological huddle’, and frames the ‘professional vision’ by bringing into salience the relevant semiotic resources, footing, participation frameworks, and ethos. (Objects, embodied sociolinguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, ecological huddle, research group meetings

Agency (philosophy) · Contextualization · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Semiotics · Social science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition