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Tagg, Caroline and Lyons, Agnieszka
(2021).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2020.1867150
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.
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body TRANSFER IN: Translation and translanguaging: investigating linguistic and cultural Transformations in superdiverse wards in four UK cities Not Set AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) - Keywords
- Affordances; context; ethnography; mobile messaging; semiotic repertoire
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics > English Language & Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics
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- Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
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- © 2021 Caroline Tagg, © 2021 Agnieszka Lyons
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- Caroline Tagg