{"title":"Coordinating multimodal and screen-based actions in proposal sequences of video-mediated collaborative drawing","authors":"Tuire Oittinen , Tiina Räisänen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates ways in which proposal sequences are coordinated via multimodal and screen-based actions in video-mediated collaborative drawing. More specifically, we focus on moments when participants who deploy a drawing tool engage in joint decision-making related to a logo drawing task. We draw on 15 h of screen-recorded data from university students’ video-mediated sessions and use the method of multimodal conversation analysis (CA). Our analysis shows that proposal sequences are initiated and advanced via verbal, embodied and screen-based actions and their unfolding depends on various aspects, including the timing and way of mobilizing the drawing tool and the roles of the participants (i.e., drawer vs. other participants). The study highlights drawing as a resource and affordance in joint decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 210-227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language & Communication","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530925000722","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper investigates ways in which proposal sequences are coordinated via multimodal and screen-based actions in video-mediated collaborative drawing. More specifically, we focus on moments when participants who deploy a drawing tool engage in joint decision-making related to a logo drawing task. We draw on 15 h of screen-recorded data from university students’ video-mediated sessions and use the method of multimodal conversation analysis (CA). Our analysis shows that proposal sequences are initiated and advanced via verbal, embodied and screen-based actions and their unfolding depends on various aspects, including the timing and way of mobilizing the drawing tool and the roles of the participants (i.e., drawer vs. other participants). The study highlights drawing as a resource and affordance in joint decision-making.
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This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.