Enacting the roles of boss and employee in German business meetings
Subtitle: a conversation analytic study of how social roles are co-constructed
By: Tobias Barske
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781443888233
Subjects: Business meetings; Business communication; Supervision of employees; Supervisors
Description: This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to talk this speech exchange system into existence. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, the study describes how participants in meetings perform different social roles, specifically, focusing on ways in which the enactment of doing-being-boss and doing-being-employee depends upon a moment-by-moment collaboration between all participants.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-168).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Research on business meetings; title: The use(s) of OK in German business meetings; title: Delivering reports: the relevance of TCU-final intonation for "doing-being-employee"; title: Loci of interactional trouble: zones of interactional transition; title: Conclusion.