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Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings Social Encounters in Time and Space

This edited book revisits the concept of social ‘activities’ from an interactional perspective, examining how verbal, vocal, visual-spatial and material resources are deployed by participants for meaning-making in social encounters. The eleven original chapters within this volume analyse activities...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reber, Elisabeth (Editor), Gerhardt, Cornelia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Subjects:
Communication Studies
Semiotics
Communication
Linguistic Anthropology
Pragmatics
Discourse Analysis
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Cornelia Gerhardt and Elisabeth Reber
  • Part I. Introduction – theoretical and methodological issues
  • Chapter 1. Embodied Activities; Cornelia Gerhardt and Elisabeth Reber
  • Chapter 2. Activities as discrete organizational domains; Harrie Mazeland
  • Chapter 3. Practices for showing, looking and videorecording: the interactional establishment of a common focus of attention; Lorenza Mondada
  • Part II. Objects in Space
  • Chapter 4. Intra-operative decision making in a teaching hospital; Jeff Bezemer, Ged Murtagh and Alexandra Cope
  • Chapter 5. ‘Showing’ as a means of engaging a reluctant participant into a joint activity; Cornelia Gerhardt
  • Chapter 6. Joint attention in passing (…) - what dual mobile eye-tracking reveals about gaze in coordinating embodied activities on a market; Anja Stukenbrock and An Nhi Dao
  • Part III. Complex Participation Frameworks
  • Chapter 7. Multiparty coordination under time pressure: The social organisation of handball team time-out activities; Christian Meyer and Ulrich von Wedelstädt
  • Chapter 8. Punch and Judy politics? Embodying challenging actions in parliament; Elisabeth Reber
  • Chapter 9. Assessments in transition: Coordinating participation framework transitions in institutional settings; Darren Reed
  • Part IV. Affiliation and Alignment
  • Chapter 10. Embodying empathy: On the negotiation of resources, rights and responsibilities in comforting actions; Maxi Kupetz
  • Chapter 11. Negotiating activity closings with reciprocal head nods in Mandarin conversation; Xiaoting Li
  • Chapter 12. Position expansion in meeting talk; Harrie Mazeland
  • Part V. Epilogue
  • Chapter 13. Epilogue; Cornelia Gerhardt and Elisabeth Reber

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