Papers by Arja Piirainen-Marsh
Manual Guiding in Peer Group Interaction: A Resource for Organizing a Practical Classroom Task
Research on Language & Social Interaction, 2013
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and
cult... more The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and
cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which
they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4
case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns’ new media
uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse
studies, and ethnography, making use of the concepts of language choice and linguistic
and stylistic heteroglossia. Through the 4 cases in focus, the paper shows how young
people’s linguistically and textually sophisticated new media uses are geared by and express
translocal affective, social, and cultural alignments and affinities.
doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01482.x
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Ever since Levinson (1978/1987) published their ground-breaking work, both empirical research and... more Ever since Levinson (1978/1987) published their ground-breaking work, both empirical research and theoretical analyses have challenged the central notions and underlying assumptions of their theory. This paper addresses three core criticisms of the face-model that were raised by the authors themselves and have been alive ever since in politeness literature: the model's failure to account for impoliteness with the conceptual tools developed for analysing polite behaviour, the sentence-based, speaker-oriented mode of analysis enforced by speech act theory and a resulting focus on utterance-level linguistic realisations of polite behaviour, and a somewhat static view of politeness as a social stabilizing force. I will discuss these problematic issues first in light of recent critical re-evaluations of the notion of politeness as discursive processes and 'members' practices', and second, through examining empirical data from public discourse, more specifically television interviews and discussions that represent a genre that favours confrontational interview style. Taking as a starting point a discursive view of (im)politeness, this paper focuses on ways in which the participants strategically manage the interview task and deal with interactional and interpersonal aspects of talk in a setting which involves seeking controversy and struggle for control over the interview's content and agenda.
Journal of Pragmatics, 2010
Grounded in the interactional paradigm for the study of bilingual language use, this paper invest... more Grounded in the interactional paradigm for the study of bilingual language use, this paper investigates how players engaged in a collaborative game-playing activity orient to the co-presence of two languages in the setting and deploy bilingual resources in organising their action and participation. The analysis aims to demonstrate how a particular kind of ‘bilingual order’ (Cromdal, 2005) is co-constructed in which the players use their native language (Finnish) for interaction with each other, but systematically draw on the language of the game in constructing their turns as recognisable and building their alignments with respect to activities under way. The analysis highlights how a bilingual gaming activity is organised through the participants’ emergent orientations to interactional objects, which include English text and talk, in their own actions. The interaction unfolds through a bilingual medium as the players attend to locally available language resources in co-constructing the sense of particular scenes and events. Code-switching emerges as a key resource for organising the players’ participation, managing transitions from one type of activity to another, displaying heightened involvement with particular scenes or events, and co-constructing affect while evaluating and enjoying the game.
On identity and membership in multicultural broadcast interaction
Discourses in Search of Members. Lanham, Maryland: …, 2002
Soveltava kielentutkimus ja tutkimuksenteon peruskysymykset
Näkökulmia soveltavaan kielentutkimukseen. …, 2000
Puhe ja toiminta seminaarinäyttämöllä
Teoksessa L. Laurinen, MR. Luukka & K. Sajavaara ( …, 1996
Koodinvaihto kontekstivihjeenä videopelitilanteessa [Code-switching as a contextualization cue in game-playing settings]
… . Lahikuvia englannin kaytosta Suomessa [The third …, 2008
Issues in Applied Linguistics, 2000
This paper investigates how multiparty multicultural interactions from broadcast settings are org... more This paper investigates how multiparty multicultural interactions from broadcast settings are organized to provide opportunities for participants to arrange themselves into different kinds of associations for the management of the core activities of the setting. Building on previous work on collective participation and team alignment in conversational and institutional settings, this paper examines how participants in multiperson broadcast interactions invoke and display the relevance of multiperson units in talk. Drawing on data from multiperson multicultural television discussions, we examine the verbal and nonverbal practices used as resources for invoking, establishing, and negotiating the relevance of collective units of participation and investigate how these units become consequential for the organization of talk and activity in the setting. First, we consider how the institutional representatives call upon the relevance of various associations for current talk by addressing questions collectively to participants or subsets of participants. We describe the key resources used and discuss how they establish opportunities for collective participation. Second, we describe how participants display and negotiate the relevance of associations through a variety of resources, in particular by speaking on behalf of a collection of others, engaging in collaborative action, and aligning with prior speakers. This paper investigates how multiparty multicultural interactions from broadcast settings are organized to provide opportunities for participants to arrange themselves into different kiruis ofassociationsfor the management of the core activities ofthe setting. Building on previous work on collective participation and team alignment in conversational and institutional settings, this paper examines how participants in multiperson broadcast interactions invoke and display the relevance of niuiuperson units in talk. Drawing on data from multiperson multicultural television discussions, we examine the verbal and nonverbal practices used as resources for invoking, establishing, and negotiating the relevance of collective units ofparticipation and investigate how these units become consequential for the organization of talk and activity in the setting. First, we consider how the institutional representatives call upon the relevance of various associationsfor current talk by addressing questions collectively to participants or subsets of participants. We describe the key resources used and discuss how they establish opportunities for collective participation. Second, we describe how participants display and negotiate the relevance of associations through a variety of resources, in particular by speaking on beludfofa collection of others, engaging in collaborative action, and aligning with prior speakers.
Linguistics and Education, 2011
This paper describes how irony is used to negatively evaluate student behaviour in sequences wher... more This paper describes how irony is used to negatively evaluate student behaviour in sequences where students disrupt or resist the official business of the lesson and thus challenge the teacher's authority. Irony-implicative utterances, i.e. utterances hearable as ironic in their context, are examined from two complementary perspectives: (i) the intricate interactional work utterances involve; how utterances are hearable as ironic and how participants negotiate their implications within the sequences of action in which the utterances are occasioned and used, and (ii) the use of irony in the local management of moral orders in the classroom. Findings show that irony-implicative utterances are used to deal with designedly cheeky utterances by students and invoke the boundaries of acceptable conduct especially at transitional phases during lessons. Irony can also be embedded in instructional questioning sequences, where it serves to convey disapproval or criticism for inappropriate student action. Finally, irony or sarcasm is used in conflictual exchanges to build opposition and manage resistance.▶ Irony is one resource for dealing with designedly cheeky utterances by students. ▶ It is used to invoke the boundaries of acceptable conduct especially at transitional phases during lessons. ▶ Irony occurs also in instructional questioning sequences, where it serves to convey disapproval or criticism for inappropriate student action. ▶ Irony or sarcasm is used in conflictual exchanges to build opposition and manage resistance.
Language policy, 2009
Building on an understanding of language policy as continually evolving, emergent and influenced ... more Building on an understanding of language policy as continually evolving, emergent and influenced by norms of specific communities and cultures, this paper investigates the practices through which young people negotiate informal language policies when interacting with new media in the context of electronic gaming. We examine how young new media users participating in gaming activities construct norms of bilingual language use. Gaming is a new media setting where the resources of more than one language are deployed to create local meanings and negotiate situated identities. Gamers and fans as social agents appropriate contextually available linguistic resources and thus actively and sensitively negotiate the norms and policies relevant to them. We argue that future discussion of the impact of new media on language use should be informed by detailed analysis of the micro-management and policing of norms, practices and repertoires in specific contexts of media use.
Linguistics and Education, 2011
This special issue of Linguistics and Education deals with a specific domain of activities relate... more 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.► This special issue of Linguistics and Education focuses on interactional activities related to the management of authority and discipline in classrooms. ► These activities are central to the management of the social and moral order of classrooms. ► The introduction gives an overview of previous work on classroom interaction, presents the key principles of conversation analysis and introduces the contributions included in this volume.
Journal of Computer …, 2009
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and cultu... more The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4 case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns' new media uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and ethnography, making use of the concepts of language choice and linguistic and stylistic heteroglossia. Through the 4 cases in focus, the paper shows how young people's linguistically and textually sophisticated new media uses are geared by and express translocal affective, social, and cultural alignments and affinities.
Face in second language conversation
ABSTRACT Yhteenveto: Kasvot ja kohteliaisuus oppijan ja syntyperäisen puhujan keskustelussa. Diss... more ABSTRACT Yhteenveto: Kasvot ja kohteliaisuus oppijan ja syntyperäisen puhujan keskustelussa. Diss. -- Jyväskylän yliopisto.
Managing adversarial questioning in broadcast interviews
Journal of Politeness Research, 2005
... This work describes the linguistic and discur-sive practices characteristic of both everyday ... more ... This work describes the linguistic and discur-sive practices characteristic of both everyday settings, eg, family dis-course (Blum-Kulka 1990), and a variety of institutional environments, eg, broadcasttalk (Harris 1991, Mullany 2002), parliamentary dis-course (Harris 2001) and ...
Collaborative Game‐play as a Site for Participation and Situated Learning of a Second Language
Scandinavian Journal of Educational …, 2009
... [CrossRef] View all references; Firth, 199612. Firth, A. 1996. The discursive accomplishment ... more ... [CrossRef] View all references; Firth, 199612. Firth, A. 1996. The discursive accomplishment of 'normality': On conversation analysis and 'lingua franca' English.. Journal of Pragmatics , 26: 237239. [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®], [CSA] View all references; Kurhila, 200627. ...
The Modern Language Journal, 2009
This article offers an empirically based contribution to the growing body of studies using Conver... more This article offers an empirically based contribution to the growing body of studies using Conversation Analysis (CA) as a tool for analyzing second/foreign language learning in and through interaction. Building on a sociointeractional view of learning as grounded in the structures of participation in social activities, we apply CA methods to examine the affordances offered by interaction during the activity of playing a video game for additional language learning. We focus on one type of interactional practice, lexical and prosodic repetition, as a recurring resource through which players attend to the game and collaboratively build their understanding and experience of game events. We argue that other-repetition offers participants a resource for not only interpreting the game but also for engaging with the second language, analyzing it, and putting it to use in ways that enable players to display and develop their linguistic and interactional competence.
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Papers by Arja Piirainen-Marsh
cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which
they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4
case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns’ new media
uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse
studies, and ethnography, making use of the concepts of language choice and linguistic
and stylistic heteroglossia. Through the 4 cases in focus, the paper shows how young
people’s linguistically and textually sophisticated new media uses are geared by and express
translocal affective, social, and cultural alignments and affinities.
doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01482.x
cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which
they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4
case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns’ new media
uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse
studies, and ethnography, making use of the concepts of language choice and linguistic
and stylistic heteroglossia. Through the 4 cases in focus, the paper shows how young
people’s linguistically and textually sophisticated new media uses are geared by and express
translocal affective, social, and cultural alignments and affinities.
doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01482.x