research interest/publication  
interest  
Shinjung Ho¡¦s research interests are interdisciplinary. She studied language and communication from qualitative perspectives in her M.A. program. After she enters the doctoral program in 2002, she has developed interests in embodied interaction, gesture, narrative communication, and talk and interaction in work-place and institutional settings. Her methodological orientation is both phenomenological and ethnomethodological. Utilizing technology, she also explores the possibilities of technology and image formation (e.g. 3-D collage or animation) in order to represent or re-shape the micro phenomena derived from the ephemeral moment, the material field, and the very fast movement of bodily conduct. Because physical action has a temporal/spatial structure in that it refers to and extends the linear and audio modalities (the sounds) and uses the co-existing space as a built environment to construct the social action in progress. How to represent this intricate interplay and synchronous deployment of communicative modalities poses both technological and theoretical issues that concern her current research. Her doctoral dissertation examines multiple modalities and workplace communication in mise-en-scene practices and argues that professional participants constantly turn to their bodily conduct as a source of insight into formulating and solving specific problems. She argues that imagining is a social and collaborative activity in mise-en-scene work and it matters how communication scholars treat each communicative medium as a potential breeding ground for meaning building.  

publication		  

¡§Sequential patterning as social process: a single case analysis of reporting political speech and political discussion in a Chinese community.¡¨
Paper presented at National Communication Association, 2003, Miami beach,

abstract

This study examines everyday conversation in a Chinese community in the U.S. in which several senior and male friends report and discuss political news of their homeland. This study describes their daily conversation as a verbal ritual initiated by reports on some political news item of Taiwan. Through the turn-taking organization of direct reported speech, participants co-construct the reported news as an active, controversial topic and orient each other to disagreements with the reported politicians and their speeches. Direct reported speech is exploited to enact the ritual and to accomplish a one-sided discussion and collectively performed dispute of Taiwanese politicians. Participants constantly shift footing to address the face-threatening prospect and the risks of confronting with each other¡¦s
¡§literal selves¡¨ (Hoyle, 1993). This paper also found that cooperative storytelling and co-narration are important disputing activities in the political discussion that frame the verbal ritual as a social activity. When telling these stories, participants construct social relations, ethnic identity, and tongxiang guanxi (hometown fraternity). It argues sequential patterning of footing and ethnic membership is a social process realized in the sequential organization of talk.

Hoyle, S. M. (1993). Participation frameworks in sportscasting play. In D. Tannen (ed.), Framing in Discourse (pp. 114-45). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  
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