Henricson2023

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Henricson2023
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Sofie Henricson, Anne Mäntynen, Marie Nelson, Marjo Savijärvi
Title OKAY as a content word: Regulating language and constructing centres of norms in Finnish, Finland-Swedish, and Sweden-Swedish academic writing consultation meetings
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Tag(s) EMCA, In press, Academic writing, Conversation analysis, Centres of norms, Epistemic positioning, Language regulation, Okay as a content word, Systemic-functional analysis, Writing consultation
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Year 2023
Language English
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DOI 10.1017/S0332586523000094
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Abstract

The focus of this article is on OKAY as a resource for regulating language and constructing norm centres in authentic consultation meetings related to academic writing and recorded in Finland and Sweden. It gives an overview of all occurrences of OKAY in the interactional data in question, revealing that the word occurs frequently in academic writing consultations in Finnish, Finland Swedish, and Sweden Swedish. There are similarities in the frequency of its use and the distribution of occurrences between counsellor and student in the Finnish and the Finland-Swedish data, whereas the Sweden-Swedish counselling interactions follow a slightly different pattern. Through the lens of conversation analysis and systemic–functional linguistics, we further demonstrate how the counsellors and the students use the evaluative content word OKAY as a resource for regulating both academic writing and the counselling interaction, and thereby position themselves epistemically and orient towards different centres of norms.

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