1. Informal Leadership im Entscheidungsprozess. Eine Fallanalyse aus der Kommunikationspraxis. Laura Delaloye, Universit de Lausanne (CLSL) Institut fr 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: cio (0.3) c gi (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) per/ (0.8) (xxx) (0.6) and therefore (0.7) but (0.8) (xxx) (0.6) 18 MB:s (0.3) per adesso yes (0.3) but now 4. Challenging the proposition Building up a coalition 12. 12 18 MB: s (0.3) per adesso yes (0.3) but now 19 R: se gli facciamo dire qualcosa di interessante if we make him say something interesting 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) cio se-se-se posso permettermi= (0.9) well if I dare to say= 22 LT: = s (0.8) =yes (0.8) 23 MB: cio (0.4) si potrebbe farlo anche volentieri well (0.4) we could do it certainly as well 24 per (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:vabb ma suggerire al giornalista fine but to suggest to the italian journalist 61 R: cio 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 pu discutere fra colleghi (0.8) if we can talk between colleagues 65 trovo che non male (0.4) la cosa (0.5) I think it is not a bad (0.4) thing (0.5) 66 magari cos 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 questo the point is this one 79 cio (0.9) diciamo io l'ho well (0.9) lets say I have 80 questa cosa lho seguita (0.6) sin dallinizio 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