Search results for "epistemics"

Handling knowledge: Using classroom materials to construct and interpret information requests

2015

Abstract This article contributes to the recent conversation analytic interest in exploring the mechanisms of action formation and ascription by investigating how embodied interactional practices involving material objects relate to the organization of social action. Using as data information request sequences in student–student interaction, the study highlights the material nature of an interactional context and examines how students orient in talk and by bodily-visual means to their and their co-conversants’ textual documents during individual task work. Sequential analyses illustrate how the manual handling of such everyday learning materials as handouts and tasks sheets is not only an i…

Embodied and affective negotiation over spatial and epistemic group territories among school-children : (Re)producing moral orders in open learning e…

2022

This study investigates how schoolchildren organise their spatial and epistemic ‘territories’ among peer groups to constitute local social and moral orders in open learning environments. Open learning environments, the result of recent school reforms in Finland, challenge the conventional organisation of traditional classrooms. We use a microanalysis of naturally occurring video-recorded interactions to show the interactional dynamics of how children produce epistemic and spatial territories by creating moment-by-moment unfolding participation frameworks and emotional alliances. We suggest that the lack of institutional structures in open learning environments withholds children from the te…

Negotiation of expertise and multifunctionality : PowerPoint presentations as interactional activity types in workplace meetings

2016

This article investigates exchanges between the presenter and another participant within PowerPoint presentations in workplace meetings. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis as a method, it examines 1) how participants orient to each other's expertise, 2) what is accomplished through the exchange and 3) how the PowerPoint slide is interwoven with the process. The results show how the exchanges establish the presentation as information delivery in which the complexity of professional knowledge is displayed and negotiated. Moreover, there is an orientation to directive functions of the presentation activity. The PowerPoint slides as a text and as a material object are evoked for th…

Epistemic Search Sequences in Peer Interaction in a Content-based Language Classroom

2013

Epistemics in interaction refers to how participants display, manage, and orient to their own and others’ states of knowledge. This article applies recent conversation analytical work on epistemics to classrooms where language and content instruction are combined. It focuses on Epistemic Search Sequences (ESSs) through which students in peer interaction collectively resolve emerging knowledge gaps while working on pedagogic tasks. ESSs are initiated when a speaker displays an ‘unknowing’ epistemic stance by making an information request about some aspect of language or the content being worked on. We examine three different types of ESS: those in which a ‘knowing’ response is accepted by th…

Design in education and training

2019

À partir d’entretiens réalisés auprès d’entreprises innovantes du secteur de l’éducation et de la formation, cet article étudie les processus par lesquels ces entreprises innovent. Les observations portent sur le positionnement des entreprises innovantes dans le champ de l’éducation, les contraintes qui les structurent, les processus mis en œuvre dans le déploiement des services et produits, et l’organisation de la communication sur le design. Les résultats de l’analyse lexicométrique contribuent à décrire une épistémè du design innovant qui à la fois structure et limite le travail des designers. Celle-ci renverse en partie l’épistémè tayloriste du design industriel tout en héritant de cert…

Knowing matters : how students address lack of knowledge in bilingual classroom interaction

2014

Constructing knowledge : epistemic practices in three television interview genres

2011

This study analyses epistemic practices in broadcast television interviews, focusing on three different interview genres: celebrity interviews, sports interviews and political interviews. In the analysis I examine the linguistic and interactional practices that are used to construct knowledge in the interviews. These practices include mobilization of different types of knowledge, use of assessments to invite first-hand knowledge, negotiation of epistemic stances while disaligning with the question, and use of assessments for claiming or contesting epistemic rights to authority and expertise. The study comprises four articles and a summary. Article I focuses on celebrity interviews and analy…

Incongruencia epistémica, partículas intensificadoras y elaboración de la información

2019

Resumen: En el presente estudio se describe un patrón discursivo hallado en intervenciones reactivas tras aserciones. El patrón contiene una partícula intensificadora del acuerdo (p. ej., ‘claro’, ‘por supuesto’, ‘evidentemente’) seguida de un segmento en el que se elabora la información propuesta en la aserción iniciativa. Se argumenta que, en los contextos analizados, las partículas señalan la existencia de una incongruencia epistémica: aunque el segundo hablante muestra acuerdo con el contenido semántico propuesto por el primero, dicho contenido resulta conocido e incluso obvio para el segundo hablante y la aserción es, en ese sentido, problemática. A …

Speaking out against everyday sexism : Gender and epistemics in accusations of “mansplaining”

2021

In everyday interaction, subtle manifestations of sexism often pass unacknowledged and become internalised and thus perceived as “natural” conduct. The introduction of new vocabularies for referring to previously unnamed sexist conduct would presumably enable individuals to start problematising hitherto unchallengeable sexism. In this paper, we investigate whether and how these vocabularies empower people to speak out against sexism. We focus on the use of the term “mansplaining” which, although coined over 10 years ago, remains controversial and contested. Using Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis, this paper excavates the interactional methods individuals use to f…

(In)congruence between presupposing teacher turns and the student’s epistemic stance : case analysis of teacher turns that presuppose the student to …

2017

Episteemisyyden eli tietoon pääsyn tutkiminen luokkahuonevuorovaikutuksessa on kasvattanut suosiotaan keskustelunanalyyttisessa tutkimuksessa viime vuosina. Kasvavan kiinnostuksen taustalla on ajatus siitä, että oppiminen tapahtuu vuorovaikutuksessa toisten kanssa, kun taas vuorovaikutusta ajaa eteenpäin osallistujien välinen tiedollinen epäsymmetria. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus on lisätä tietoa episteemisyydestä luokkahuonevuorovaikutuksessa. Tarkastelin opettajan aloitevuoroja, joihin oli sisäänrakennettuna oletus oppilaan pääsystä tietoon eli oletus siitä, että oppilas tietää vastauksen kysymykseen. Lisäksi tarkastelin oppilaiden vastauksia opettajan kysymyksiin, sekä niitä seuraavia ope…