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- 2019
‘We don’t need to abide by that!’: Negotiating professional roles in problemKeywords: Business meetings,formulating,interactional sociolinguistics,multinational corporate workplace,negotiating,organisational communication,problem-solving talk,resuming,role negotiation,workplace discourse Abstract: In this article, we focus on problem solving talk in the business meeting event. We zoom in on the processes of formulating, negotiating and ratifying an issue as a problem, and we argue that individuals negotiate their stances in relation to their perceived/projected professional roles. The processes of problem-solving are, simultaneously, processes of self/other positioning. We take an Interactional Sociolinguistic perspective and draw on audio-recorded meeting talk collected in a multinational corporate workplace. Our analysis shows that interactants draw on issues of accountability, perceived/projected responsibilities and expertise in pursuit of their own interactional agenda in the problem-solving meeting. We close the article with directions for further research
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