Whose questions? Ventriloquism in entrepreneurial podcasting

Geert Jacobs

Friday 24 November 2023 | 12:30 – 14:00
Mercator Campus – Room A1.04

MULTIPLEtalkS is a lunch event with sandwiches and beverages.
In order to organise the catering: would you register by 22 November 2023? Thank you.

MULTIPLEtalkS registration

Our speaker, Geert Jacobs, organizes a MULTIPLEtalkS data session: 
Whose questions? Ventriloquism in entrepreneurial podcasting

In this presentation I report on linguistic ethnographic and multimodal inquiry into the use of questions in entrepreneurial podcasting. In particular, I will focus on notions of de-dramatization and re-dramatization, as the entrepreneur ventriloquizes the podcast maker’s feedback in the context of so-called ‘language-related episodes’. I go on to reflect on issues of leadership branding and end with an open call to mobilize resources from argumentation to refine my analysis.

Lotte Remue as booster and David Chan as discussant

MULTIPLEtalkS is a monthly informal get-together in which a researcher discusses a piece of their own work with other MULTIPLES researchers. During these events we kill multiple birds with one stone: the speaker gets valuable input and feedback on their work, junior and senior researchers get to exchange ideas, we cross the bridge between the two campuses, and we have lunch.

Every MULTIPLEtalkS speaker is joined by a ‘booster’ who helps along and takes notes as well as a discussant who wraps up the discussion.

The format of this MULTIPLEtalkS:

• 12:30 Welcome + MULTIPLES updates
• Booster announces the speaker
• Speaker discusses a piece of their work (interaction included)
• Wrap-up by the discussant (5 minutes)
• 14:00 Off into the world with food for thought and action 💡

MULTIPLEtalkS is an event at the heart of the MULTIPLES Research Centre and open to researchers from other research groups. 

MULTIPLEtalkS – Where?

MULTIPLEtalkS alternate between the campuses of Mercator and Boekentoren. Ideally, they do not take place on the campus where the speaker is based. 

MULTIPLEtalkS – When?

Mostly every third Friday of the month.

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Interested in giving a talk? Please contact sofie.verkest@ugent.be!         

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