Responding responsibly
When responding to questions, speakers usually do not only report what they know about the question being asked. This study explores a series of survey responses on how respondents explicitly and implicitly manage responsibility for what they say. It builds on a telephone survey on workplace multili...
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crequinoxpubl:10.1558/jalpp.33801 2024-06-02T08:12:05+00:00 Responding responsibly Ideological, interactional, and professional responsibilities in survey responses about multilingualism at work Hiss, Florian 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.33801 https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JALPP/article/download/13594/15825 unknown Equinox Publishing Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice volume 12, issue 3, page 289-312 ISSN 2040-3666 2040-3658 journal-article 2019 crequinoxpubl https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.33801 2024-05-07T13:51:49Z When responding to questions, speakers usually do not only report what they know about the question being asked. This study explores a series of survey responses on how respondents explicitly and implicitly manage responsibility for what they say. It builds on a telephone survey on workplace multilingualism in Northern Norway and focuses on one particular interview question that addresses practical as well as ideological concerns: the use of traditional minority languages at work. As representatives of regional companies, the informants face and handle responsibilities relating to their professional and organisational roles, the interactional relations of the structured interview, and the sociolinguistic and sociocultural surroundings. The choices they make when handling responsibility for their responses go beyond the realm of each of these taken separately. The study therefore highlights the importance of a perspective across different scopes and contexts. Asking what choices respondents make to respond in a responsible way involves not only the content of the question, but also implicit ideological concerns and interactional relations, as well as a range of professional and other social roles. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway Equinox Publishing Norway Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice 12 3 289 312 |
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When responding to questions, speakers usually do not only report what they know about the question being asked. This study explores a series of survey responses on how respondents explicitly and implicitly manage responsibility for what they say. It builds on a telephone survey on workplace multilingualism in Northern Norway and focuses on one particular interview question that addresses practical as well as ideological concerns: the use of traditional minority languages at work. As representatives of regional companies, the informants face and handle responsibilities relating to their professional and organisational roles, the interactional relations of the structured interview, and the sociolinguistic and sociocultural surroundings. The choices they make when handling responsibility for their responses go beyond the realm of each of these taken separately. The study therefore highlights the importance of a perspective across different scopes and contexts. Asking what choices respondents make to respond in a responsible way involves not only the content of the question, but also implicit ideological concerns and interactional relations, as well as a range of professional and other social roles. |
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