Abstract This study examines how Iranians engage in identity work on live-streaming apps across geographical, political, and cultural borders. Drawing upon nexus analysis and ‘chronotope’ as an analytical tool and employing discourse analysis of a twenty-minute conversation between a young girl in Iran and two boys in Europe, the study demonstrates how specific chronotopes, imbued with certain values, identities, and moral behaviors, traverse borders, while revealing the impact of online platforms in mediating these interactions. The findings highlight the dynamic negotiation of identity and sociocultural norms in transnational digital spaces, shedding light on how Iranians in Iran and the diaspora adapt their expressions of self within these interconnected worlds. (Online communication, chronotopic identities, Iranian diaspora, transnationalism, nexus analysis)
In hospital corridors, nursing staff often call on to coworkers and enlist them for the realization of some practical activity, as part of their teamwork. Sometimes, the coparticipants produce a summons-answer (SA) sequence as a preliminary to the recruiting move, for instance the request. They thus check and display the summoned party's availability for interaction, for talk, and for a new activity foretold by the summons. In this article, we show that they may also convey, through the SA sequence, some understanding of this activity's nature and specificities. In this regard, we present practices that the summoned party deploys when enacting limited availability for the upcoming recruitment by continuing their current involvement, merely suspending it instead of abandoning it, and in some cases also displaying being disrupted. The data are video-recordings of nursing staff corridor interactions with coworkers in a hospital outpatient clinic in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. (Multimodal conversation analysis, summons-answer sequence, availability, recruitment, nurse, hospital corridor interaction)
