The interactional management of discipline and morality in the classroom: An introduction

This special issue of Linguistics and Education deals with a specific domain of activities related to the management of discipline in classrooms. Matters of authority and discipline have been widely discussed in educational research literature. Yet, only a handful of studies have investigated how matters of discipline and the boundaries of acceptable behaviour are managed and negotiated locally in the interactional activities that constitute the social world of the classroom. This volume addresses the issue of how teachers, and sometimes students, actually deal with the problem of addressing, referring to, and evaluating unauthorized or inappropriate conduct. The focus is on activities through which teachers and students manage expectations concerning the social and moral order of classroom conduct. These are investigated through the detailed analytic lens of conversation analysis. In this introduction we offer a necessarily selective overview of previous work on classroom interaction, present the key principles of conversation analysis, and introduce the contributions included in this volume. © 2011 Elsevier Inc

Asymmetries of Knowledge and Epistemic Change in Social Gaming Interaction

While a growing number of studies investigate the role of knowledge and interactional management of knowledge asymmetries in conversation analysis, the epistemic organization of multilingual and second language interactions is still largely unexplored. This article addresses this issue by investigating how knowledge asymmetries and changing positions with regard to knowledge impact social interaction in multilingual gaming activities. Drawing on a collection of video recordings of social gaming sessions collected over a two year period and involving the same two participants, we examine how the participants orient to knowledge and deal with knowledge asymmetries while solving game-related problems and tasks. In addition to detailed analysis of local aspects of epistemic organization, we examine how the participants’ epistemic positions change over time. Findings show that epistemic changes impact the social organization of the gaming activities and constitute the situation as a learning event.Peer reviewe

Kunnianhimoinen kokoomateos vuorovaikutuslingvistiikasta

Kirja-arvio Selting, Margret & Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (toim.): Studies in interactional linguisticsnonPeerReviewe

Kunnianhimoinen kokoomateos vuorovaikutuslingvistiikasta

Kirja-arvioSelting, Margret & Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (toim.): Studies in interactional linguistic

Julkisen keskustelun muodot ja keinot kahdessa kulttuurissa

Kirja-arvioNuolijärvi, Pirkko & Tiittula, Liisa: Televisiokeskustelun näyttämöllä. Televisioinstitutionaalisuus suomalaisessa ja saksalaisessa keskustelukulttuuriss