Negotiating meanings online
Disagreements about word meaning in discussion forum communication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7750810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Myrendal (0000-0003-4300-3378, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-339 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445619829234 |
| OpenAlex | W2919145517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article describes word meaning negotiation (WMN) in online discussion forum communication, a form of computer-mediated communication (CMC). WMN occurs when participants who are engaged in a discussion about a particular topic remark on a word choice of another participant, thus initiating a meta-linguistic sequence in which a particular word is openly questioned and the meaning of that word is up for negotiation. By closely studying the process of WMN and focusing on the practices of the participants engaged in it, this article empirically explores how situated meaning in concrete utterances is established by participants who are in disagreement about word meaning. Routine ways of entering into a WMN sequence are identified, as well as typical ways of contributing to the negotiation once the discussion has shifted focus from being on topic to being on word meaning. The article highlights the context-sensitivity of word meanings and illustrates how participants engaged in WMN orient toward both semantic properties of the words themselves as well as to relevant aspects of the conversational context
Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Negotiation · Situated · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Doing Conversation Analysis
Using Language
The Lexicon in Acquisition
Grounding in communication.
Studies in ethnomethodology
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
Sequence Organization in Interaction
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
Living Words
Non-native/Non-native Conversations
Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts
Discourse, Pragmatics, Conversation, Analysis
Introduction
Baby' or 'fetus
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
Repair After Next Turn
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |