Informal Leadership im Entscheidungsprozess. Eine Fallanalyse aus der Kommunikationspraxis. Laura Delaloye, Doktorandin Uni Lausanne und IAM

1. Informal Leadership im
Entscheidungsprozess. Eine Fallanalyse
aus der Kommunikationspraxis.
Laura Delaloye,
Université de Lausanne (CLSL)
Institut für Angewandte Medienwissenschaft (IAM)

2. A discursive approach to
leadership
« Leadership emerges through the decision-making
process as the participants negotiate, through the
sequential properties of talk, epistemic rights to
assess and so seek to gain primacy in the
management of meaning for the organization ».
(Clifton 2012:154)

3. Methodology
 Interaction and Conversation Analysis
 Argumentation theory
 Multimodal dimension

4. 4
The negotiation of leadership in decision
making process.
 Taking a position (proponent)
 Challenging or objecting a position (opponent)
 Polylogues and the co-production of position
 Coalition

5. 5
 Who has the right to propose and to oppose
in a given context?
 Administrative authority
 Epistemic authority
 Discursive roles and argumentative positions

6. 6
Co-leadership/Coalition
 Turn-design and turn-allocation
 Collaborative completion
 Verbal and non-verbal ressources
 Participative framework
 Body gesture

7. Leadership in context
7
 Editorial meeting
discussion
 Turn-taking
 pre-allocation and
informal
 Challenging the
institutional
authority through
discursive
ressources
Editor-in-chief (R) > Vice-editor-in-chief (LT) > Editor of the national desk (MB)

8. 8
01 R: allora (1.4) eh FB, giornalista italiano
so (1.4) eh FB, an italian journalist
(…)
05 e chiede qualche suggerimento (0.6)
and he asks for some hints (0.6)
06 sui temi che stanno a cuore a noi (0.3)
about topics that are important to us (0.3)
07 allora potremmo suggerire/ (0.8) e riprendere (2.3)
so we could suggest and retell (2.3)
1. Making a proposition
 Participative framework
Falling intonation and pause

9. 9
07 R: allora potremmo suggerire/ (0.8) e riprendere (2.3)
so we could suggest / (0.8) and retell / (2.3)
08 MB: in che senso scusa (0.9)
in which sense excuse me (0.9)
2. Negotiation of the meaning

10. 10
09 R: gli suggeriamo i temi lui li dice
we suggest him the topics he says it
10 a rusconi e (xxx) temi che sono a cuore a noi (4.0)
to rusconi and (xxx) topics that are important to us (4.0)
010 pause (4.0)
3. Reformulation of the proposition
 Reframing the participative framework

11. 11
14 LT: cioè (0.3) c’è giù (1.8) un sacco di
well (0.3) there is down: (1.8) a lots of
16 sui media (xxx) su svizzera eccetera
about the media (xxx) about switzerlan:d and so on
17 e quindi (0.7) però/ (0.8) (xxx) (0.6)
and therefore (0.7) but (0.8) (xxx) (0.6)
18 MB:sì (0.3) però adesso
yes (0.3) but now
4. Challenging the proposition
 Building up a coalition

12. 12
18 MB: sì (0.3) però adesso
yes (0.3) but now
19 R: se gli facciamo dire qualcosa di interessante
if we make him say something interesting
20 MB: onestamente (0.2)
honestly (0.2)
5. Negotiating the access to the floor
 Overlapp and non-verbal ressources

13. 13
20 MB:onestamente (0.2)
honestly (0.2)
21 (0.9) cioè se-se-se posso permettermi=
(0.9) well if I dare to say=
22 LT: = sì (0.8)
=yes (0.8)
23 MB: cioè (0.4) si potrebbe farlo anche volentieri
well (0.4) we could do it certainly as well
24 però (1.5) non vorrei arrivare alla situation grotesca
but (1.5) I would not like to reach the grotesque
situation
6. Co-construction of a position
 Turn-taking management

14. 60 MB:vabbè ma suggerire al giornalista
fine but to suggest to the italian journalist
61 R: cioè non si tratta di suggerire ma di discutere un attimo
it is not about suggesting but about talking a minute
64 (0.8) se si può discutere fra colleghi
(0.8) if we can talk between colleagues
65 trovo che non è male (0.4) la cosa (0.5)
I think it is not a bad (0.4) thing (0.5)
66 magari così imparano
even like this they learn
67 che la svizzera non ha capitale zurigo
that switzerland does not have zurich as a capital
68 e non ha trentadue cantoni (0.8)
and does not have thirty two provinces (0.8)
7. Towards a redefinition of the proposition

15. 78 LT: il punto è questo
the point is this one
79 cioè (0.9) diciamo io l'ho
well (0.9) let’s say I have
80 questa cosa l’ho seguita (0.6) sin dall’inizio
this matter I have followed it (0.6) since the beginning
81 sin dal punto costitutivo
since the constitutiv point
82 scusa rubo solo un minuto per questo punto
excuse me I just steal a minute for this point
8. Displaying epistemic rights to take the lead
 Experience and expertize in a given field
 Face-threatening management

16. Informal leadership
 Institutional Status versus Interactional Position
 Continuous Negotiation
 Discursivity (verbal and non-verbal)
 Argumentative Situation in Decision Making Process