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Publication details [#61388]

Lehtinen, Esa and Riikka Nissi. 2016. Negotiation of expertise and multifunctionality: PowerPoint presentations as interactional activity types in workplace meetings. Language & Communication 48 : 1–17.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This ethnomethodological conversation analysis explores presenter-participant exchanges within PowerPoint presentations in workplace meetings. It investigates how participants orient to each other's expertise, what is achieved via the exchange and how the PowerPoint slide is entwined with the process. It is demonstrated how the exchanges institute the presentation as information distribution in which the intricacy of professional knowledge is exhibited and negotiated, and how the presentation activity orients to directive functions via the PowerPoint slides.