Chapter 1. Forward-looking
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Anja Stukenbrock
Abstract
This chapter deals with the concepts of projection and conditional relevance by examining the temporal and sequential relationship between speech, gesture and gaze in deictic practices. It makes the following claims: Verbal deictics combined with embodied practices that direct the addressee’s attention to visible phenomena form a multimodal, intercorporeal gestalt. They constitute a request for the addressee’s gaze. This means that within the deictic referencing act, a multimodal summons-answer sequence unfolds that comprises recurrent gaze patterns both of the pointing and the gazing participant. These gaze practices are context-sensitive and temporally fine-tuned to the emerging verbal and kinetic practices, they occupy specific positions within the deictic act which in turn can be embedded within other actions such as instructions, requests etc.
Abstract
This chapter deals with the concepts of projection and conditional relevance by examining the temporal and sequential relationship between speech, gesture and gaze in deictic practices. It makes the following claims: Verbal deictics combined with embodied practices that direct the addressee’s attention to visible phenomena form a multimodal, intercorporeal gestalt. They constitute a request for the addressee’s gaze. This means that within the deictic referencing act, a multimodal summons-answer sequence unfolds that comprises recurrent gaze patterns both of the pointing and the gazing participant. These gaze practices are context-sensitive and temporally fine-tuned to the emerging verbal and kinetic practices, they occupy specific positions within the deictic act which in turn can be embedded within other actions such as instructions, requests etc.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The body in interaction 1
- Chapter 1. Forward-looking 31
- Chapter 2. Suspending talk 69
- Chapter 3. The temporal organization of conversation while mucking out a sheep stable 97
- Chapter 4. Revisiting delayed completions 123
- Chapter 5. Questions on the move 161
- Chapter 6. Bodily shadowing 203
- Chapter 7. Prefiguring the future 231
- Chapter 8. Embodiment of activity progress 261
- Chapter 9. Changes in turn-design over interactional histories – the case of instructions in driving school lessons 293
- Chapter 10. Times of rest 325
- Index 351
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The body in interaction 1
- Chapter 1. Forward-looking 31
- Chapter 2. Suspending talk 69
- Chapter 3. The temporal organization of conversation while mucking out a sheep stable 97
- Chapter 4. Revisiting delayed completions 123
- Chapter 5. Questions on the move 161
- Chapter 6. Bodily shadowing 203
- Chapter 7. Prefiguring the future 231
- Chapter 8. Embodiment of activity progress 261
- Chapter 9. Changes in turn-design over interactional histories – the case of instructions in driving school lessons 293
- Chapter 10. Times of rest 325
- Index 351
