S094 2/2 | Talking About Talk: Examining Social Life Through Metalanguage

S094 2/2 | Talking about Talk: Examining Social Life through Metalanguage

August 17, 2021 02:30 PM - August 17, 2022 06:00 PM(Europe/Amsterdam)

20210817T1430 20210817T1800 Europe/Amsterdam S094 2/2 | Talking about Talk: Examining Social Life through Metalanguage Researchers in applied linguistics are increasingly focused on shifting modes of engagement, 'glocal' information flows, and superdiverse communicative styles. Metalanguage-or talk about talk-has proven to be an invaluable research lens in these complex settings, allowing researchers access to participants' "emic" interpretations of real-time interactional dynamics and social contexts. The reflexive nature of language-in-use is proving to be a rich analytical resource in, e.g., medical encounters, education spaces, and online spaces. However, an integrated theory of metalanguage as a research lens has yet to be developed. This symposium aims to aid in this development by answering the following questions: (a) How can metalanguage be used as a lens for revealing how interlocutors orient to, and interpret, situated communication? (b) How does metalanguage provide insights to changes in social relations over time? The first question is addressed in Subtheme 1: Metalanguage in synchronous discourse. We invite papers with a systematic focus on talk-about-talk in either real or virtual "face-to-face" interactions (e.g., those happening in real-time). The second question will be addressed in Subtheme 2: Metalanguage in asynchronous discourse. We invite papers that explore metalanguage in, e.g., policy discourse, online comments sections, social media, or other discourses taking place over time. Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nl

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Researchers in applied linguistics are increasingly focused on shifting modes of engagement, 'glocal' information flows, and superdiverse communicative styles. Metalanguage-or talk about talk-has proven to be an invaluable research lens in these complex settings, allowing researchers access to participants' "emic" interpretations of real-time interactional dynamics and social contexts. The reflexive nature of language-in-use is proving to be a rich analytical resource in, e.g., medical encounters, education spaces, and online spaces. However, an integrated theory of metalanguage as a research lens has yet to be developed. This symposium aims to aid in this development by answering the following questions: (a) How can metalanguage be used as a lens for revealing how interlocutors orient to, and interpret, situated communication? (b) How does metalanguage provide insights to changes in social relations over time? The first question is addressed in Subtheme 1: Metalanguage in synchronous discourse. We invite papers with a systematic focus on talk-about-talk in either real or virtual "face-to-face" interactions (e.g., those happening in real-time). The second question will be addressed in Subtheme 2: Metalanguage in asynchronous discourse. We invite papers that explore metalanguage in, e.g., policy discourse, online comments sections, social media, or other discourses taking place over time.

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'Hello everyone, welcome to my presentation': Talk about talk in student synchronous versus asynchronous online presentationsView Abstract Watch Recording 0

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Reflexivity is approached though a model of metadiscourse, focusing on the discourse itself (metalinguistic function), the writer-speaker (expressive function) and the real or imagined audience (directive function). The model is applied to a net-based teaching context and students’ synchronous (N=6) and asynchronous (N=9) presentations are compared, including multimodal aspects.

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Examining metadiscourse in research articles through the lens of move analysis and concept matchingView Abstract Watch Recording 0

StandardAILA Symposium 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/17 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/17 16:00:00 UTC

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We study metadiscourse in research articles by merging pragmatically motivated move analysis and linguistically motivated concept-matching analysis. We show that the two approaches are mutually informative, and that functional metalanguage can be characterized and automatically detected using an underlying common representation of moves that involves syntactic relationships among instantiated concepts.

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Gatekeepers talk about talk. Perceptions of migration-related language variation beyond learner language and suburban slang.View Abstract Watch Recording 0

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Gatekeepers have the power to open or close doors for people, seeking access to the labor market, higher education, etc. Language attitude research shows that humans are quick to judge a person based on the way she/he speaks. It is therefore highly relevant to promote sociolinguistic awareness-raising activities for gatekeepers.

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High school extraneous – Metalanguage on class and academic language use in high schoolView Abstract

StandardAILA Symposium 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/17 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/17 16:00:00 UTC

In this paper I investigate the metalanguage of students and teachers in high school concerning students with working class backgrounds and their academic language skills and discuss how the situated metalinguistic practices relates to broader discourses about the 'high school extraneous' students.

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Images of Teaching in Student Teachers’ Talk About Microteaching SessionsView Abstract Watch Recording 0

Standard 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/17 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/17 16:00:00 UTC

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Metalanguage serves as an analytic lens for examining student teacher identity development in relation to a specific discursive context of language teacher education: microteaching sessions and feedback. I show how the invitation to talk about their microteaching sessions created space for student teachers to reflect on what it meant to be student teachers within a TESOL program, as well as their own self identities.

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