Elizabeth Keating
2021
Keating, Elizabeth; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.
When do good communication models fail in global virtual teams? Journal Article
In: Organizational Dynamics, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 100843, 2021.
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Global virtual teams represent temporary work systems that are assembled for a joint task, performed by team members who collaborate primarily via digital technologies. Team members span geography and culture and often have only a narrow period of shared work hours. Within highly constrained temporal spaces, team members coordinate and collaborate on joint tasks with many task interdependencies, requiring constant back-and-forth workflows among members. Leveraging various synchronous and asynchronous virtual communication modes, the teams must communicate effectively to prevent prolonged misunderstandings and work delays. The virtual team environment is challenging because virtual space reduces opportunities for team members to grasp important aspects of the actual social surroundings of the members that are critical for understanding.
2020
Keating, Elizabeth
Language Purism and American Sign Language Book Chapter
In: pp. 349-365, Brockmeyer, 2020, ISBN: 9783819606489.
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abstract = {Cultural beliefs in the possibility and value of maintaining a "pure" language in the face of contaminating influences from "outside" are common to many language communities. These ideas span a wide range from an association with particular local political projects to an association with generalized theories of morality, and from a focus on a single individual's identity to a focus on the state of a society as a whole. Purism discourses relate past and present, reorganizing historical relationships and legitimizing some voices over others. In this paper I discuss the following aspects of language purism as they emerge in the space between Deaf and hearing communities in the U.S. and elsewhere: contact between signed and spoken languages, the role of education, and the role of art.},
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Cultural beliefs in the possibility and value of maintaining a "pure" language in the face of contaminating influences from "outside" are common to many language communities. These ideas span a wide range from an association with particular local political projects to an association with generalized theories of morality, and from a focus on a single individual's identity to a focus on the state of a society as a whole. Purism discourses relate past and present, reorganizing historical relationships and legitimizing some voices over others. In this paper I discuss the following aspects of language purism as they emerge in the space between Deaf and hearing communities in the U.S. and elsewhere: contact between signed and spoken languages, the role of education, and the role of art.
Keating, Elizabeth
Habits and Innovations: Designing Language for New, Technologically Mediated Sociality Book Chapter
In: pp. 329-350, 10.4324/9781003135517-16, 2020, ISBN: 9781003135517.
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2019
Keating, Elizabeth
Culture and collaboration in digitally mediated settings Book Chapter
In: pp. 142-157, 2019, ISBN: 9780429489839.
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2018
Keating, Elizabeth
Technologically Mediated Sociality: Negotiating Culture, Communication and Access, in Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones, Joshua A. Bell and Joel C. Kuipers, eds Book Chapter
In: Routledge, 2018, ISBN: 9781315388380.
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The nearly simultaneous adoption of mobile phones by people in many different societies offers an unprecedented opportunity to understand the adoption of technologies as a process involving designers, users, social conventions, belief systems, and economic forces – a process mediated through discourses about objects, persons, and everyday activities. This chapter focuses specifically on metacommentaries by users in 15 different countries as they manage a new communicative technology within established cultural conventions for moral behavior. Discussions people engage in when technologies are introduced are not merely, or only, expressions of sensation, wonder, frustration, hysteria, moral panic, or fear of change, but a vital part of technological adoption.
Keating, Elizabeth
Technologically mediated sociality Book Chapter
In: pp. 148-166, 2018, ISBN: 9781315388380.
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2017
Keating, Elizabeth
“They Blame, They Complain but They Don’t Understand”: Identity Clashes in Cross-Cultural Virtual Collaborations Book Chapter
In: pp. 225-240, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-58055-5.
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Technology has enhanced the ability of diverse groups of people to work together, meaning that intercultural negotiations of identity are more and more part of a work day. In technologically-mediated settings, however, there is little cultural or social context available to facilitate learning about other cultures’ identity practices or how to accommodate to the diverse cultural notions of personhood that influence identity construction. In this paper I argue that attention to two sociological concepts, identity spoiling and status degradation, can help prioritize identity and the importance of regular and consistent identity ratification in cross cultural virtual professional collaborations.
2016
Keating, Elizabeth; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.
Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office Book
University of California PressI, 2016, ISBN: 9780520291379.
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2015
Keating, Elizabeth
The Role of the Body and Space in Digital Multimodality Book
2015, ISBN: 9781315694344.
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abstract = {Language is a tool of unparalleled power for creating and sharing information, perspectives and plans, and has been a focus of countless fascinating research studies. Other non-verbal modalities for communication have been far less studied for what they contribute to culture and social transmission (see Jewitt, this volume). This is in part because of prior diculties in studying and recording human interaction, and in part due to the historical privileging of written texts in scholarly work. The recent development of low-cost digital image recording technologies, however, has enabled the close analysis of multimodality in human communication, and studies are proliferating on the topic of multimodality. This includes both discrete aspects of visual semiotic modalities, such as gesture (e.g., Kendon 2004; Kita 2003; Streeck 2009), gaze (e.g., Goodwin & Goodwin 1987; Kendon 1990), the body, and space, as well as the inter-relatedness of modalities (e.g., Deppermann 2013; Goodwin & Goodwin 1996; Jewitt, Kress, & Mavers 2009; Mondada 2011; Streeck, Goodwin, & LeBaron 2011). Video recordings have enabled researchers to better understand the coordination of modalities in terms of simultaneity and sequentiality. The world’s many sign languages, now being extensively documented, are also a resource for multimodality study. In sign language, signs made with the hands work in complex coordination with signs made with the face, head movements, torso shifts, gaze, gestures, and mimetic moves.},
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2012
Keating, Elizabeth
Duranti, Alessandro Book Chapter
In: 2012.
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abstract = {Among contemporary linguistic anthropologists, Alessandro Duranti is unique in the breadth of his research and in his interdisciplinary engagement in theorizing relationships between language and culture. His work can be understood as a career-long interest in human creativity as expressed in linguistic (and other semiotic) forms, and the mediating influence of these forms on culture and social life. His work is highly influenced not only by formal linguistics, but by European and American philosophical and anthropological traditions. His earliest academic work at the University of Rome was on Korean syntax and semantics, but after beginning PhD study in the United States he also became interested in the social life of linguistic forms. These interests were perfectly synthesized in his ethnographic work on the role of grammatical forms in accomplishing social action, for example, how ergative case marking in Samoan could be manipulated by village chiefs and orators to negotiate agency and responsibility, one of many observations about language and culture in From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (Duranti, 1994). Later ethnographic work on the campaign trail in California, a contest for a US Congress seat, is another example of Duranti's approach to language, the video recorded data proving to be a rich source for understanding genre, the collaborative construction of meaning, and the materialization of locally relevant, taken-for-granted concepts such as democracy (Duranti, 2003, 2006a). Throughout his work he has developed and expanded his notion of “ethnopragmatics” (Duranti, 1993a, 2007) beyond a focus on the contextual life of language, local communicative practices, and speakers' attitudes, and toward the meaning and impact of those practices to language as an expression and realization of human agency more generally. Duranti is perhaps best known for his work on intentionality, both as it is perceived locally in different world areas, and the role of discursive practices in defining it (Duranti, 1993b, 2006b, 2008a). Most recently he has been reinvestigating the writings of Husserl on phenomenology in order to contribute to perhaps the most challenging anthropological question, understanding intersubjectivity and the limits and nature of sharing the perspective of the “other” (Duranti, 2009, 2010).},
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Keating, Elizabeth; Mirus, Gene
The eyes have it: Technologies of automobility in sign language Journal Article
In: Semiotica, vol. 2012, no. 191, 2012.
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Cars present an unusual environment for human interaction and communication. For deaf people using sign language, a visual language, the car is far from ideal for establishing and maintaining conversation. This is due to the visual pre-occupation of the driver with watching the road, manual preoccupation with maneuvering the car, and the layout of seats for passengers. This article describes and analyzes particular conversational interactions of signers to show how deaf signers innovatively and creatively manage to adapt their signing in the car for effective signed interaction. Signers manipulate particular aspects of the car environment, including mirrors and seats, they use the body in particular ways to accommodate to visual perception boundaries, and they shift distribution of meaning to both manual signs and to aspects of the immediate physical environment. They also distribute the work of attending to actions both within and outside the vehicle. Signers thus both adapt language to the context and adapt the context to language, showing important ways that technologies and mobility impact language practices.
2011
Keating, Elizabeth; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.
Hallowed Grounds: The Role of Cultural Values, Practices, and Institutions in TMS in an Offshored Complex Engineering Services Project Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 786-798, 2011.
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Keating, Elizabeth; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.
Interspatial subjectivities: Engineering in virtual environments Journal Article
In: Social Semiotics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 219-237, 2011.
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Keating, Elizabeth; Duranti, Alessandro
Discourse and culture Book Chapter
In: vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 331 - 356, De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
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abstract = {At the end of the last chapter, I raised the reflexive issue of the status of theoretical discourse in relation to alternative versions, real or potential. The question there related to my own account of discourse, of course: I rejected the realist position of representationalism and then suggested a different, reality-constitutive one. Is my own version not realist in nature? If not, what is its specific status, or that of any such anti-representationalist position, in relation to other, different versions? However, when I raised that question, I also had a further, larger question in mind. Namely, what is the relation between such a theoretical discourse to culture? Is a universal theory of discourse possible, or even desirable?},
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2010
Keating, Elizabeth; Hadder, R. Neill
Sensory Impairment Journal Article
In: Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 39, no. 1, 2010.
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Anthropological studies of sensory impairment address biological conditions and cultural disablement while contributing to theoretical discussions of cultural competence, communicative practices, the role of narrative, and features of identity, ideologies, and technology. As boundary cases, impairments can disclose essential aspects of the senses in human life. Sensory impairment studies navigate the complexities of comparing dominant sensory discourses with individual sense differences, cross-linguistic incomparabilities among sense categories, and how impairment categories tend to fuse together highly diverse conditions. The category of disability, which includes sensory impairment, comprises chronic deficit relative to priority competencies. With special emphasis on blindness/visual impairment and deafness/hearing impairment, we overview sensory impairment on three levels: the social partitioning of the sensorium, differential ramifications of sensory impairments cross-culturally, and the classification of the person based on cultural priorities. We identify ten common themes in ethnographically oriented studies.
Keating, Elizabeth; Topracc, Paul; Ossian, Melissa; Sanchez, Joe
Leslie Jarmon—1952-2009 Journal Article
In: Simulation & Gaming, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 457-460, 2010.
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Problem-based learning focuses on small groups using authentic problems as a means to help participants obtain knowledge and problem-solving skills. This approach makes problem-based learning ideal for teaching lean manufacturing, which is driven.
Keating, Elizabeth; Sunakawa, Chiho
Participation Cues: Coordinating Activity and Collaboration in Complex Online Gaming Worlds Journal Article
In: Language in Society, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 331 - 356, 2010.
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2009
Keating, Elizabeth; Monteiro, Marko Synésio Alves
Managing Misunderstandings: The Role of Language in Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration Journal Article
In: Science Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 6-28, 2009.
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This article explores how scientists communicate with each other in interdisciplinary collaborative work. It is based on ethnographic research conducted with one such group, which is building a predictive computer model of heat transfer in prostate tissues. The analysis identifies strategies scientists use in their communication practices, including managing different understandings of the validity of knowledge, partial understandings among participants, and interpretive discipline crossing in group meetings. The ideas of productive misunderstandings and of registration as correlating distinct knowledge domains are used to interpret how scientists must manage their unshared backgrounds as part of the collaborative scientific work.
Keating, Elizabeth
Power and Pragmatics Journal Article
In: Language and Linguistics Compass, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 996-1009, 2009.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Pragmatics and Technology Book Chapter
In: pp. 231-237, 2009, ISBN: 9789004253209.
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Correction/Repair as a Resource for Co-Construction of Group Competence Journal Article
In: Pragmatics, vol. 3, no. 4, 2009.
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2008
Keating, Elizabeth; Edwards, Terra; Mirus, Gene
Cybersign and New Proximities: Impacts of New Communication Technologies on Space and Language Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1067-1081, 2008.
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Keating, Elizabeth; Jarmon, Leslie; Toprac, Paul
Examining the societal impacts of nanotechnology through simulation: NANO SCENARIO Journal Article
In: Simulation & Gaming, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 168-181, 2008.
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Keating, Elizabeth; Jarmon, Leslie
NANO SCENARIO: Role-playing to appreciate the societal effects of nanotechnology Journal Article
In: Simulation & Gaming, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 282-301, 2008.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Space Shifting: New Technologies, New Opportunities Journal Article
In: 2008.
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2007
Keating, Elizabeth; Keating, Elizabeth
Conversation as a Cultural Activity Book Chapter
In: pp. 167 - 196, 2007, ISBN: 9780470996522.
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Language in Society: Editor's note Journal Article
In: Language in Society , vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 815, 2007.
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2006
Keating, Elizabeth
Spatiality and Language Journal Article
In: Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2006.
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Keating, Elizabeth; Duranti, Alessandro
Honorific Resources for the Construction of Hierarchy in Samoan and Pohnpeian Journal Article
In: The Journal of Polynesian Society, vol. 115, no. 2, pp. 145-172, 2006.
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What is Nanotechnology: New Properties of Words as Territories in a Cross-Disciplinary, Cross Border Flow Bachelor Thesis
2006.
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Honorific resources for the construction of hierarchy in Samoan and Pohnpeian Journal Article
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2005
Keating, Elizabeth
Homo prostheticus: Problematizing the notions of activity and computer-mediated interaction Journal Article
In: Discourse Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 527-545, 2005.
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Keating, Elizabeth
The Sociolinguistics of Status in Pohnpei Journal Article
In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language DOI:, vol. 2005, no. 172, pp. 7-30, 2005.
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2004
Keating, Elizabeth; Mirus, G.
Signing in the car: Some issues in language and context Journal Article
In: Deaf Worlds, vol. 20, pp. 264 - 273, 2004.
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2003
Keating, Elizabeth; Mirus, Gene
In: Language in Society, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 693 - 714, 2003.
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Keating, Elizabeth; Mirus, Gene
Examining Interactions across Language Modalities: Deaf Children and Hearing Peers at School Journal Article
In: Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, 2003.
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2002
Keating, Elizabeth
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality Journal Article
In: Pragmatics, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 347-359, 2002.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Space and its role in social stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia Journal Article
In: Representing space in Oceania: culture in language, pp. 201-213, 2002.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Everyday Actions and the Domestication of Social Inequality Journal Article
In: Pragmatics, vol. 12, no. 3, 2002.
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2001
Keating, Elizabeth
In: pp. 295-312, Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN: 9783865278906.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Book Reviews:Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory Journal Article
In: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 152-156, 2001.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Language, Identity, and the Production of Authority in New Discursive Contexts in Pohnpei, Micronesia Journal Article
In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 2001.
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Keating, Elizabeth
The ethnography of communication Journal Article
In: Handbook of Ethnography, pp. 285 - 301, 2001.
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2000
Keating, Elizabeth
In: Language in Society, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 586 - 589, 2000.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Moments of Hierarchy: Constructing Social Stratification by Means of Language, Food, Space, and the Body in Pohnpei, Micronesia Journal Article
In: American Anthropologist, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 303-320, 2000.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Current Issues In Linguistic Anthropology Journal Article
In: Teaching Anthropology Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges Notes, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 20-23, 2000.
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1999
Keating, Elizabeth
Space Journal Article
In: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 90, no. 1-2, pp. 234-237, 1999.
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Keating, Elizabeth
Contesting representations of gender stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia Journal Article
In: Ethnos, vol. 64, no. 3-4, pp. 350-371, 1999.
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1998
Keating, Elizabeth
Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia Book
Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN: 9780195111972.
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What allows certain individuals and groups to maintain control over the actions and lives of others? Linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating went to the island of Pohnpei, in Micronesia, and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this inside view of how language works to create power and social inequality. This book challenges widely held theories on the nature of social stratification, including women's roles in creating hierarchy.