A table-based turn-taking system and its political consequences

Managing participation, building opinion groups, and fostering consensus

Bibliographic Data

ID6084639
AuthorsLorenza Mondada, Hanna Svensson (0000-0001-5641-207X), Nynke Van Schepen
Year2017
Volume16
Issue1
Pages83-109
Publication date2017-05-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.16.1.05mon
OpenAlexW2609865459
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited7

Turn-taking in political settings faces the problem of how to enable the participation of larger numbers of speakers in orderly ways; solutions have been described as offered by constrained formats like the turn-type pre-allocation system or the mediated turn-taking system. This paper describes another specific solution, a table-based turn-taking system. The study describes how facilitators managing brainstorming sessions in a participatory project exploit the spatial distribution of the citizens around tables scattered in the meeting room. By organizing discussions table by table, rather than selecting next individual speakers, the facilitators select groups and attributes specific rights and obligations to talk to “tables”, which are then treated not as a mere spatial location but as a political entity. The table-based device does not just solve problems of turn-taking management but also fosters the expression of collective opinions of the “table” as a place for building consensus

Brainstorming · Citizen journalism · Computer security · Database · Exploit · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Round table · Sociology · Table (database · Turn (biochemistry · Turn-taking · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic research and analysis · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Law

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