Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World

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How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources (such as gaze and gesture) to bring about coherent and intelligible courses of action? How are physical settings, artifacts, technologies and non-linguistic sign-systems implicated in social interaction and shared cognition? This volume brings together advanced work by leading international scholars who share video-based research methods that integrate semiotic, linguistic, sociological, anthropological and cognitive science perspectives with detailed, microanalytic observations. Collectively they provide a coherent framework for analyzing the production of meaning and the organization of social interaction in the complex and heterogeneous settings that are characteristic of modern life. Embodied Interaction is indispensable for anyone interested in the study of language and social interaction. This volume will be a point of reference for future research on multimodality in human communication and action. Contents List of Figures and Tables Contributors 1. Embodied Interaction in the Material World: An Introduction • Jürgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin, and Curtis LeBaron I. FOUNDING CAPACITIES 2. Collaborative Construction of Multimodal Utterances • Edwin Hutchins and Saeko Nomura 3. Formal Structures of Practical Tasks: A Resource for Action in the Social Life of Very Young Children • Gene H. Lerner, Don H. Zimmerman, and Mardi Kidwell 4. Elements of Formulation • N. J. Enfield 5. The Changing Meanings of Things: Found Objects and Inscriptions in Social Interaction • Jürgen Streeck 6. Choreographies of Attention: Multimodality in a Routine Family Activity • Eve Tulbert and Marjorie H. Goodwin 7. Some Functions of Speaker Head Nods • Hiromi Aoki 8. The Multimodal Mechanics of Collaborative Unit Construction in Japanese Conversation • Shimako Iwasaki II. TRANSFORMATIONAL ECOLOGIES 9. Creating Contexts for Actions: Multimodal Practices for Managing Children’s Conduct in the Childcare Classroom • Siri Mehus 10. Multilingual Multimodality: Communicative Difficulties and Their Solutions in Second-Language Use • Marianne Gullberg 11. On the Use of Graphic Resources in Interaction by People with Communication Disorders • Ray Wilkinson, Steven Bloch, and Michael Clarke 12. Terra Incognita: Social Interaction among Blind Children • Sharon Avital and Jürgen Streeck 13. Contextures of Action • Charles Goodwin 14. “A Full Inspiration Tray:” Multimodality across Real and Virtual Spaces • Elizabeth Keating and Chiho Sunakawa III. PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES 15. The Organization of Concurrent Courses of Action in Surgical Demonstrations • Lorenza Mondada 16. Pursuing a Response: Prodding Recognition and Expertise within a Surgical Team • Alan Zemel, Timothy Koschmann, and Curtis LeBaron 17. Building Stories: The Embodied Narration of What Might Come to Pass • Keith M. Murphy 18. Embodied Arguments: Verbal Claims and Bodily Evidence • Julien C. Mirivel 19. Facilitating Tool Use in the Photography Studio • Scott Phillabaum 20. Gesture and Institutional Interaction • Christian Heath and Paul Luff 21. Musical Spaces • John B. Haviland Index