Request for confirmation sequences in Czech
This article provides a first description of request for confirmation (RfC) sequences in spoken Czech. Based on 204 sequences from video-recorded ordinary conversations, it provides a quantitative overview of the main syntactic, lexical, prosodic and...
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This article provides a first description of request for confirmation (RfC) sequences in spoken Czech. Based on 204 sequences from video-recorded ordinary conversations, it provides a quantitative overview of the main syntactic, lexical, prosodic and sequential features of both requests for confirmation and their responses. RfCs in Czech are typically of declarative clausal format, realized in positive polarity, and receive a confirmation. The epistemic asymmetry between the speaker of the RfC and their interlocutor seems to be mainly expressed and negotiated by a complex taxonomy of tags appended to the confirmable, response tokens, and syntactically non-minimal responses. These features represent promising topics for future, more qualitatively oriented investigations of RfCs in spoken Czech.
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“Oh, Now I have to Speak” older adults’ first encounters with voice-based applications in smartphone courses
This chapter deals with the question of what we can learn from interaction in institutional settings about the usability and learnability of everyday technologies such as voice-based Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs), especially for older adults...
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This chapter deals with the question of what we can learn from interaction in institutional settings about the usability and learnability of everyday technologies such as voice-based Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs), especially for older adults or, more generally, less-expert technology users. Based on an analysis of video recordings made during smartphone courses in adult education centers in Germany, this contribution provides a qualitative and micro-analytical perspective on non-expert adult users’ processes of discovering and exploring voice-based technologies. Using the framework of multimodal conversation analysis, both linguistic formats and embodied actions are examined, revealing the participants’ situated and dynamic understandings of how one type of IPA (as a smartphone app or widget) works and operates. The analysis of these either guided or accidental discoveries of a new technology can provide new insights regarding the specific challenges associated with handling IPAs and instructing new users how to do so. Based on these observations, this chapter also provides some general thoughts on teaching digital skills to less-expert users
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Warum ist der Döner in Helsinki so unverschämt teuer? Diskurse über Essen und Esskultur in einer deutsch-finnischen Facebook-Gruppe
In diesem Beitrag wird anhand von Postings zum Thema Essen gezeigt, wie die Mitglieder einer deutsch-finnischen Facebook-Gruppe ihre Expat-Identität verhandeln. Die sprachlich-multimodale Analyse der ausgewählten Originalbeiträge und...
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In diesem Beitrag wird anhand von Postings zum Thema Essen gezeigt, wie die Mitglieder einer deutsch-finnischen Facebook-Gruppe ihre Expat-Identität verhandeln. Die sprachlich-multimodale Analyse der ausgewählten Originalbeiträge und Antwortkommentare zeigt, dass die Diskussion um Essen und Esskultur den Gruppenmitgliedern als Mittel sowohl der Abgrenzung als auch der Zugehörigkeit zur deutschen, finnischen oder zu einer regionalen Kultur dient.
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