Work

Doing meetings online

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper contributes to previous work on workplace registers by presenting an analysis of a corpus of virtual meetings. The Interactional Variation Online corpus is comprised of recordings of virtual meetings from four different organisations. This study describes how each organisation shares similar practices when engaging in virtual meetings and how variation emerges when each organisation is compared to the other three. Corpus results show how, to establish conclusions related to this register, it is necessary to consider the influence of variation across organisations, the chairing style of each meeting, the formality of each organisational culture and the level of participant engagement in each meeting.

Source: Register Studies

DOI: 10.1075/rs.25016.per

Authors: Sandrine Peraldi, Chris Fitzgerald, Geraldine Mark, Justin McNamara, Dawn Knight, Anne O’Keeffe, Tania Fahey Palma

Institutions: University of Arizona, Lancaster University, Cardiff University, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Language: English

Topic: Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: UK Research and Innovation, University College Dublin, Irish Research Council, Arts and Humanities Research Council

Awards: Interactional variation online: harnessing emerging technologies in the digital humanities to analyse online discourse in different workplace contexts, G8376127413