Global markets as global conversations

Restricted until: Jan 1, 2100
Type of Publication: Journal article
URI (citable link): http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-82085
Author: Knorr-Cetina, Karin D.
Year of publication: 2007
Published in: Text & Talk ; 27 (2007), 5/6. - pp. 705-734. - ISSN 1860-7330. - eISSN 1860-7349
DOI (citable link): https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/TEXT.2007.032
Summary:
Financial markets are one of the most iconic and influential structures of our time. The foreign exchange market in particular is also the most genuinely global market-and the largest market worldwide, with an average daily turnover of 1.8 trillion US dollars. The foreign exchange market is also structurally like a massive conversational interaction system; many of its transactions are conducted through electronically mediated 'conversations'. Transactions not conducted through conversations but through an electronic broker also display a sequential turn-taking structure. In this paper, I analyze the streaming 'flow' architecture of this market in terms of its sequential structures and their technological and economic aspects. I also specify and analyze several types of texted sequences that articulate and illustrate the response-based interaction system of this market. I argue that informational sequences are particularly important; the informational liquidity of this market sustains and supports the market's economic liquidity.
Subject (DDC): 300 Social Sciences, Sociology
Keywords: conversation analysis, information liquidity, sequential structure, financial market, response presence, response system
Bibliography of Konstanz: Yes

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KNORR-CETINA, Karin D., 2007. Global markets as global conversations. In: Text & Talk. 27(5/6), pp. 705-734. ISSN 1860-7330. eISSN 1860-7349. Available under: doi: 10.1515/TEXT.2007.032

@article{KnorrCetina2007Globa-11738, title={Global markets as global conversations}, year={2007}, doi={10.1515/TEXT.2007.032}, number={5/6}, volume={27}, issn={1860-7330}, journal={Text & Talk}, pages={705--734}, author={Knorr-Cetina, Karin D.} }

Knorr-Cetina, Karin D. 2007 First publ. in: Text & Talk 27 (2007), 5/6, pp. 705-734 Knorr-Cetina, Karin D. Global markets as global conversations eng terms-of-use application/pdf 2011-03-25T09:37:09Z Financial markets are one of the most iconic and influential structures of our time. The foreign exchange market in particular is also the most genuinely global market-and the largest market worldwide, with an average daily turnover of 1.8 trillion US dollars. The foreign exchange market is also structurally like a massive conversational interaction system; many of its transactions are conducted through electronically mediated 'conversations'. Transactions not conducted through conversations but through an electronic broker also display a sequential turn-taking structure. In this paper, I analyze the streaming 'flow' architecture of this market in terms of its sequential structures and their technological and economic aspects. I also specify and analyze several types of texted sequences that articulate and illustrate the response-based interaction system of this market. I argue that informational sequences are particularly important; the informational liquidity of this market sustains and supports the market's economic liquidity.

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