Markaki2012

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Markaki2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Markaki2012
Author(s) Vassiliki Markaki, Lorenza Mondada
Title Embodied orientations towards co-participants in multinational meetings
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Tag(s) EMCA
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Year 2012
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 14
Number 1
Pages 31–52
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DOI 10.1177/1461445611427210
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Abstract

The interactional organization of meetings is an important locus of observation for understanding the way in which institutions are talked into being. This article contributes to this growing body of research by focusing on turn-taking and participation in business meetings, approached within conversation analysis in a sequential and multimodal way. On the basis of a corpus of video-recorded corporate meetings of a multinational company, in which managers coming from several European branches convene, the article takes into consideration the embodied orientations of the participants as they address each other, as they turn to particular addressees or groups in a recipient designed way while describing, informing, announcing events and results, and as they make relevant specific participants’ identities – especially national categories – and, in this way, display specific local expectations regarding rights and obligations to talk and to know.

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