Repertoires on the Move: Exploiting Technological Affordances and Contexts in Mobile Messaging Interactions

Autor/inn/en	Tagg, Caroline; Lyons, Agnieszka
Titel	Repertoires on the Move: Exploiting Technological Affordances and Contexts in Mobile Messaging Interactions
Quelle	In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 18 (2021) 2, S.244-266 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1479-0718
DOI	10.1080/14790718.2020.1867150
Schlagwörter	Computer Mediated Communication; Females; Computer Software; Semiotics; Telecommunications; Handheld Devices; Social Networks; Foreign Countries; Self Concept; Polish; Native Language; Ethnography; Social Media; Immigrants; Grammar; Interpersonal Communication; Audio Equipment; Video Technology; Photography; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; United Kingdom (London); Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computerkonferenz; Weibliches Geschlecht; Semiotik; Telekommunikationstechnik; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Ausland; Selbstkonzept; Polnisch; Ethnografie; Soziale Medien; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Grammatik; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Audio-CD; Fotografie; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Polen
Abstract	This article advances thinking around the semiotic repertoire by exploring how resources are negotiated in the course of interactions mediated by mobile messaging apps, and how this process of co-constructing repertoires is shaped by the affordances and constraints of the virtual spaces in which these interactions take place. Drawing on micro-analysis of ethnographic data from a large funded project, we focus on the closed online networks of two women of Polish origin living and working in the UK, looking specifically at their uses of mobile messaging apps including WhatsApp and Viber. We show how resources come into being through talk and how emergent semiotic repertoires take shape in processes of "repertoire assemblage." In particular, we explore the ways in which technological affordances and pre-programmed signs are harnessed and exploited by mobile interlocutors for making meaning in the course of an immediate interaction, often with longer term impact within a network's emergent repertoire. The study highlights the importance of a dynamic conceptualisation of the semiotic repertoire. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01