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

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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 based on video recordings of naturalistic and naturally occurring social encounters from face-to-face and mediated settings in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, and German. Informed primarily by the methodological approaches of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, the authors study embodiment in space and time in three distinct types of situations: objects in space, complex participation frameworks, and affiliation and alignment. Moreover, the book includes a theoretical and methodological discussion of how activities are constituted and visibly embodied in interaction. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology and linguistics in general, and face-to-face and mediated interaction in particular. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Embodied Activities (Cornelia Gerhardt, Elisabeth Reber)....Pages 3-27 Activities as Discrete Organizational Domains (Harrie Mazeland)....Pages 29-61 Practices for Showing, Looking, and Videorecording: The Interactional Establishment of a Common Focus of Attention (Lorenza Mondada)....Pages 63-104 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 Inspecting Objects: Visibility Manoeuvres in Laparoscopic Surgery (Jeff Bezemer, Ged Murtagh, Alexandra Cope)....Pages 107-135 ‘Showing’ as a Means of Engaging a Reluctant Participant into a Joint Activity (Cornelia Gerhardt)....Pages 137-175 Joint Attention in Passing: What Dual Mobile Eye Tracking Reveals About Gaze in Coordinating Embodied Activities at a Market (Anja Stukenbrock, Anh Nhi Dao)....Pages 177-213 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 Multiparty Coordination Under Time Pressure: The Social Organization of Handball Team Time-Out Activities (Christian Meyer, Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt)....Pages 217-253 ‘Punch and Judy’ Politics? Embodying Challenging Courses of Action in Parliament (Elisabeth Reber)....Pages 255-297 Assessments in Transition: Coordinating Participation Framework Transitions in Institutional Settings (Darren Reed)....Pages 299-326 Front Matter ....Pages 327-327 Embodying Empathy in Everyday and Institutional Settings: On the Negotiation of Resources, Rights, and Responsibilities in Comforting Actions (Maxi Kupetz)....Pages 329-367 Negotiating Activity Closings with Reciprocal Head Nods in Mandarin Conversation (Xiaoting Li)....Pages 369-396 Position Expansion in Meeting Talk: An Interaction-Re-organizing Type of and-Prefaced Other-Continuation (Harrie Mazeland)....Pages 397-433 Front Matter ....Pages 435-435 Epilogue (Cornelia Gerhardt, Elisabeth Reber)....Pages 437-452 Back Matter ....Pages 453-459