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SUMMARY:CTIS Research Seminar - Exploring Communicative Practice and ‘Gro
 upness’ in a Virtual Intercultural Intervention (Dr Milene Mendes de Oli
 veira\, Newcastle University)
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Milene will deliver an online talk\, which is organised in
  a hybrid format. Please register for online participation here: https:/
 /zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuCtrjIrH9OekN7fkoGmxRdY2Rn78Yc4.\n\nAbstr
 act: Intercultural communication often takes place in fleeting contexts 
 in which speakers have limited common ground (Clark\, 1996). This lack o
 f common ground may even be aggravated in virtual settings. This talk is
  based on the findings of a study dealing with an intercultural interven
 tion: a collaborative game aiming at developing intercultural competence
  (Bolten 2015). The game was played by seventy-five higher-education stu
 dents from different countries who used English as a lingua franca (ELF)
  in Zoom interactions over a series of five virtual encounters\, resulti
 ng in more than fifty hours of video-recorded data. These groups which c
 ame together for the purpose of the game are regarded as transient ELF g
 roups (Mortensen\, 2017\; Pitzl\, 2018)\, and their emerging sharedness 
 is the analytical focal point of the study. This emerging sharedness is 
 of interest to the discipline of intercultural communication\, where it 
 can be described as the emergence of a team culture (Conti et al.\, 2022
 ). The analyses combined the sociolinguistic focus on ‘practice’ and the
  ethnomethodological focus on ‘actions’ (Blommaert\, 2019) and also took
  into account the conversation-analytic perspective on transience (Hazel
 \, 2017) and interactional histories (Schmidt & Deppermann\, 2023). The 
 identified practices—e.g.\, self-deprecating comments and endorsement di
 splays\, among others—feature as empirical evidence for the emerging “gr
 oupness” (Blommaert\, 2019) in some of the analyzed teams. The findings 
 will be followed by a discussion on how sociolinguistics and ethnomethod
 ology can offer complementary tools for analyzing intercultural communic
 ation in transient settings.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A214\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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