Negotiation of expertise and multifunctionality : PowerPoint presentations as interactional activity types in workplace meetings
Abstract
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 these purposes.
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Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2016
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Pergamon
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201604202261Use this for linking
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0271-5309
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2016.01.003
Language
English
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Language and Communication
Citation
- Nissi, R., & Lehtinen, E. (2016). Negotiation of expertise and multifunctionality : PowerPoint presentations as interactional activity types in workplace meetings. Language and Communication, 48, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2016.01.003
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