By analysing the movements through space of a famous conversation analyst delivering a well-known lecture, this paper reveals the creative construction of space within the social and physical ...constraints of the lecture hall, and in so doing contributes to the embodied analysis of humans in material environments. While founded in a multimodal or embodied conversation analysis, it uses terminology and insights from dance to help ‘see’ and analyse the movements as ‘footwork’ and ‘figures’.
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By analysing the movements through space of a famous conversation analyst delivering a well-known lecture, this paper reveals the creative construction of space within the social and physical ...constraints of the lecture hall, and in so doing contributes to the embodied analysis of humans in material environments. While founded in a multimodal or embodied conversation analysis, it uses terminology and insights from dance to help ‘see’ and analyse the movements as ‘footwork’ and ‘figures’.
This article uses Conversation Analysis (CA) to explore the linguistic mediation activities carried out by a plurilingual teenager in interaction with a linguistically and culturally diverse peer ...group, with a focus on repair sequences. The analysis centres on: 1) the placement of repair, that is, repair that is forward-oriented or backward-oriented; 2) the object of repair, focusing on repair directed at the code and repair directed at the message; 3) procedures by which the linguistic mediator is selected, that is by other-selection or self-selection; 4) interactional procedures for completing repair, focusing on translation and collaborative turn sequences. This study contributes to enhancing understandings of the mechanics of linguistic mediation in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity from an interactional perspective, and among youth, in the context of an after-school educational program.
The article reports a study of corporate testimonial videos from a Danish tech SME. The aim of the study is to show how combining Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA) and Multimodal ...Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) may provide new insight into the persuasive appeal of corporate testimonial videos. The study uses EMCA to demonstrate how participants interactionally construct a position of credibility and authenticity from which to deliver the recommendation. It uses MCDA to show how the interaction is integrated into a larger set of multimodally constructed meanings with a specific strategic communicative purpose, specifically how visual and editorial choices contribute to the credibility of the videos by creating a sense that viewers are watching a spontaneous (online) conversation rather than a staged corporate video. The article concludes that the videos construct credibility by providing access to a curated backstage region which viewers are invited to understand as ‘authentic’ and ‘unedited’.
Although sensory judgments are often considered to be subjective, their standardization can be observed in certain social contexts. This article aims to discuss and analyze the situated practices ...through which sensory qualities are verbalized-identified, recognized, described, shared-through lexical resources in tasting activities. This lexicon refers not only to the sensations of the participants but also to professional repertoires of categories, which reflexively standardize both descriptors and tasting practices. The empirical data come from a video recorded course for tasters held in Trento in the winter of 2017. Multimodal conversation analysis has been adopted to analyze which descriptors are used and how they are produced when a cheese sample is examined, with a particular focus on visual inspection. The analysis focuses on how these descriptors are mobilized in situ, by the panel leader but also by the other participants, not only referring to the object and its perception, but also making use of different written documents (tasting sheets, standardized lists of descriptors). Three embodied methods used by the panel leader are identified: ostension, evidencing and comparison, showing and inviting the participants to look and see relevant features of the object, but also to make sense of the descriptors used to name them. We also consider how these descriptors generate agreements and disagreements and are validated in an authorized and authoritative way by the panel leader. Far from being mere resources for expressing subjective judgments, descriptors are a way of normalizing these judgments, and of introducing a standardization of the practice of tasting as well as the products tasted.
Examining a Korean reality TV show, Babel 250, with seven participants who do not share a native language, we aim to illuminate how they pursue and sometimes achieve intersubjectivity as they ...accomplish everyday practical and social activities. The main concept of Babel 250 is that the participants strive to construct a community, each using only their own native language (as mandated by the show's rules) along with a new shared language system they create as they go, “Babel-e.” Using multimodal conversation analysis, we present a collection of examples that showcase how participants use multimodal resources and embodied displays to achieve understanding with each other. The analysis shows that pursuing intersubjectivity involves the participants’ intricate recipient-design of their talk and sustained orientation toward repair practices. The study contributes to a better understanding of intersubjectivity-in-action in extremely constraining circumstances.
•Media discourse provides diverse examples of real-life interactions.•Talk participants’ intricate endeavors in recipient-designing their talk enhances multilingual interaction.•Intersubjectivity can be achieved through diverse resources within a multilingual context.
This article analyzes naturally occurring video‐recorded openings during which participants make the sensory social through the action of registering—calling joint attention to a selected, publicly ...perceivable referent so others shift their sensory attention to it. It examines sequence‐initial actions that register referents for which a participant is regarded as responsible. Findings demonstrate a systematic preference organization which observably guides when and how people initiate registering sequences sensitive to ownership of, and displayed stance toward, the target referent. Analysis shows how registering an owned referent achieves intersubjectivity and puts involved participants' face, affiliation, and social relationship on the line. A video abstract is available at https://youtu.be/rNL70vawG3o
The starting point of conversation analytical research on psychotherapy was in Kathy Davis's work on problem reformulations in the mid 1980s. Since then there has been a growing body of analysis of ...psychotherapy, based on the close, sequential relations between adjacent utterances. Through examples drawn from CA studies on psychotherapy in the past decade, this review shows that sequential relations between utterances enable a process of transformation of experience. This process pertains to referents, emotion, and momentary relations between the therapist and the client. The utterance-by-utterance transformation contributes to the process of change in more macroscopic time, spanning the continuum of psychotherapeutic sessions. The recent developments of CA research on psychiatric consultants will also be discussed. Data are in Finnish and English.
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