Some systematic aspects of self-initiated mobile device use in face-to-face encounters

  • This paper investigates self-initiated uses of mobile phones (such as texting or making a call) in everyday video-recorded conversations among Czech speakers. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it illustrates how participants publicly frame their own de­vice use (for example, by announcements), and how co-present in­terlocutors respond to it. Previous studies have described how participants manage two concurrent communicative involvements, but have not provided detailed sequential descriptions of how de­vice use can be negotiated and accounted for. This study shows that mobile device use in co-presence is not a priori problematic (or vice versa). Instead, participants frame their technology use in different ways according to various features of the social situation they treat as momentarily relevant. These features include the course of the conversation and how the device use relates to it, the overall partic­ipation framework and the opacity of the device use for co-present others.

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Author:Florence Oloff
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-651475
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2019.21
ISSN:2569-6491
Parent Title (German):Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics
Publisher:Institut für Deutsche Sprache
Place of publication:Mannheim
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2021/05/03
Date of first Publication:2021/05/03
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2021/12/21
Tag:accounts; announcements; conversation analysis; multimodal analysis; mundane technology use; ordinary conversation; smartphones
Volume:2.2019
Issue:2
Page Number:41
First Page:195
Last Page:235
HeBIS-PPN:490320902
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-478105
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0