Family practices in using IT devices: Understanding intergenerational communications

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03907
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: National Institute of Informatics
• Principal Investigator: Sunakawa Chiho 国立情報学研究所, コンテンツ科学研究系, 特別研究員 (90735094)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 秦 かおり 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(言語文化専攻), 准教授 (50287801) ; 坊農 真弓 国立情報学研究所, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 准教授 (50418521) ; 菊地 浩平 総合研究大学院大学, 学融合推進センター, 助教(特定有期雇用) (60582898)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: テクノロジーとコミュニケーション / 談話分析 / 異世代間コミュニケーション / インタラクション / 相互行為 / ナラティブ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project attempts to better understand how participants negotiate intergenerational communications. Particularly in this modern era where the use of IT devices is pervasive, it is upmost important to understand how speakers with different digital experiences and expectations can collaborate on establishing a common ground. A range of analyses accomplished in this project suggest that when participants engage in conversations regarding using digital devices, they used various semiotic resources including language and bodily behaviors in order to identify and negotiate different understandings emerged in the course of interaction.

Free Research Field

社会言語学