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The following chapter is concerned with the ways in which journalists, working in an international news agency, coordinate the production of news stories with each other. In particular, it explores how journalists animate stories on which they are working and thereby render their own activities visible to colleagues within the newsroom. Although the analysis is principally concerned with the ways in which textual embedded stories are voiced and shaped in and through talk and interaction, it also considers, more generally, how tools and technologies feature in everyday collaborative work.
“Shared Agreement” refers to various social methods for accomplishing the member’s recognition that something was said according to a rule and not the demonstrable matching of substantive matters. The appropriate image of a common understanding is therefore an operation rather than a common intersection of overlapping sets.
H. Garfinkel (1967, p. 30)
The fact is that when the listener perceives and understands the meaning (the language meaning) of speech, he simultaneously takes an active, responsive attitude towards it. . . . and understanding live speech, a live utterance, is inherently responsive, although the degree of this activity varies extremely.
\M. M. Bakhtin (1976, p.68)
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Heath, C., Nicholls, G. (1997). Animated Texts: Selective Renditions of News Stories. In: Resnick, L.B., Säljö, R., Pontecorvo, C., Burge, B. (eds) Discourse, Tools and Reasoning. NATO ASI Series, vol 160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03362-3_4
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