Interpersonal Positioning in English as a Lingua Franca Interactions

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08309-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 270 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Language and Communication

This book offers a critical reflection on interpersonal positioning across both large- and small-scale contexts and highlights the multi-faceted nature of intercultural communication in today’s global world. The volume establishes positioning primarily as the negotiation of interpersonal relationships, and draws on concepts from across disciplines by way of reappraisal before applying them to two specific domains: MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) and private ELF couple interaction. While acknowledging and showcasing the unique features of positioning in these two contexts, Klötzl and Swoboda point to their commonalities by looking at how language and specifically English is used as a communicative resource in lingua franca situations. The book also identifies new directions for future methodological innovations in that it demonstrates how the same interaction can be looked at in methodologically-different ways and how the authors’ own positions projected on to such interaction create an integrated tri-partite perspective on the two domains. Shedding light on interpersonal positioning in different contexts and in turn on global communication more generally, this book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in discourse analysis, pragmatics, computer-mediated communication, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klötzl, Svitlana

Swoboda, Birgit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Chapter One

INTRODUCTION: from text to discourse

Why English as a lingua franca?

Why ingame (disembodied) interaction?

Why ELF couple interaction?

Two domains – the same basic issues

Outline

Chapter Two

THE DISCOURSE OF ELF

Channel

Code

Context

Participants

Conclusion

Chapter Three

COMMUNICATION AS POSITIONING

Communication as "a meaningful whole"

Positioning as polyphony

Bakhtin’s voice

Positioning as Bakhtin’s dialogicality

Positioning Theory

Positioning in the social sciences

Positioning and the face

Positioning as politeness: personal wants and other motivations

Positioning as involvement and independence: pro-social and relational approaches

The co-operative and territorial imperatives

Conclusion

Chapter Four

POSITIONING AS POLYPHONIC METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

Methodological issues: "a paradox of irreducible subjectivity"

Research design: triangulated inquiry

Gamer-participants

Couples-participants

Couple 1. Nargiz (Ukrainian) and Dan (French) (C1/ua-fr)

Couple 2. Sue (Israeli) and Henry (Austrian) (C2/il-au)

Couple 3. Sandy (Italian) and Peter (Austrian) (C3/it-au)

Couple 4. Monica (Austrian) and Patrick (Czech) (C4/au-cz)

Couple 5. Anna (Austrian) and Paul (Hungarian) (C5/au-hu)

Ingame data

Third-person data: self-compiled corpus of ingame and out-game interaction

Second-person data: questionnaire

First-person data: critical incident log

Couple data

Third-person data: corpus of couples’ self-recordings

Second-person data: interviews and participants’ comments

First-person data: the researcher’s diary and field notes

Summary and c

Über Autor(innen)

Svitlana Klötzl received her PhD from the University of Vienna. Her research interests include discourse analysis, English as a lingua franca, applied linguistics, and private couple interaction. Her publications include articles in Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, Discourse and interaction, and a chapter in Globalisation: Myth or Reality?

Birgit Swoboda is a freelance researcher publishing and presenting on language use in computer-games. She studied English Linguistics and History at the University of Vienna and holds a PhD degree (thesis title: L2P n00b – The pragmatics of positioning in MMORPGs). Her research focus is CMC, politeness and positioning theory.