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Oittinen, T. (2022). Material and embodied resources in the accomplishment of closings in technology-mediated business meetings. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 32(2), 299–327. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.19045.oit

Material and embodied resources in the accomplishment of closings in technology-mediated business meetings

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Author: Oittinen, Tuire1
Organizations: 1University of Oulu
Format: article
Version: accepted version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.5 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe202301306497
Language: English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022
Publish Date: 2023-01-30
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Abstract

This study uses conversation analysis (CA) and video-recorded data from an international company to investigate closings in technology-mediated (i.e. distant) meetings. The focus is on the situated affordances and multimodal resources that the chair and participants deploy to transition from meeting talk to a coordinated exit. Due to restricted access to bodily-visual leave-taking behaviours, other mutually recognized practices need to be implemented to initiate and advance closings: (1) when closing is made relevant as the next step, (2) when opportunity spaces to move out of the closing emerge, and (3) when departure from the meeting needs to be negotiated. This progression requires the close coordination of co-participants’ vocal and embodied conduct in the physical setting and rendering actions publicly intelligible via the screen at specific moments. The analysis portrays closings as emergent, collaborative accomplishments, in which the import of multimodal turn constructions and (dis)aligning behaviours must be negotiated in situ.

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Series: Pragmatics
ISSN: 1018-2101
ISSN-E: 2406-4238
ISSN-L: 1018-2101
Volume: 32
Issue: 2
Pages: 299 - 327
DOI: 10.1075/prag.19045.oit
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1075/prag.19045.oit
Type of Publication: A1 Journal article – refereed
Field of Science: 5141 Sociology
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