Objects in embodied sociolinguistics

Mind the door in research group meetings

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7900924
AutoresSuresh Canagarajah (0000-0002-1292-2366, Pennsylvania State University, autor de correspondencia), Valeriya Minakova (0000-0003-1888-0811, Pennsylvania State University)
Año2023
Volumen52
Número2
Páginas183-214
Fecha de publicación2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404522000082
OpenAlexW4220711651
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias 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