Co-presence during lapses
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Anna Vatanen
Abstract
This study examines video-recorded, naturally occurring Finnish dyads focusing on lapses (inter-sequential silences). During most lapses, participants undertake bodily activities or behaviors (Hoey 2015). Adding to previous work, this study describes “comfortable” silences where participants share the moment with no bodily activities or mutual gaze, inhabiting the silence with simple co-presence. The analysis suggests that instead of the gathering/encounter dualism, participant behavior in social situations is better described as a continuum of orientations. Also during the “comfortable” silences, understanding of behavioral involvements is intersubjectively created and maintained. Thus, even outside of sequences that allegedly create and maintain the “architecture of intersubjectivity” (Heritage 1984), social organization is jointly negotiated and achieved, most importantly by mutual monitoring and reciprocation of (bodily) orientations.
Abstract
This study examines video-recorded, naturally occurring Finnish dyads focusing on lapses (inter-sequential silences). During most lapses, participants undertake bodily activities or behaviors (Hoey 2015). Adding to previous work, this study describes “comfortable” silences where participants share the moment with no bodily activities or mutual gaze, inhabiting the silence with simple co-presence. The analysis suggests that instead of the gathering/encounter dualism, participant behavior in social situations is better described as a continuum of orientations. Also during the “comfortable” silences, understanding of behavioral involvements is intersubjectively created and maintained. Thus, even outside of sequences that allegedly create and maintain the “architecture of intersubjectivity” (Heritage 1984), social organization is jointly negotiated and achieved, most importantly by mutual monitoring and reciprocation of (bodily) orientations.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Intersubjectivity in action 1
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Part I. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
- Organizing the “we” in interaction 25
- Definitely indefinite 41
- Directive turn design and intersubjectivity 61
- On agency and affiliation in second assessments 81
- Mirror-like address practice in Arabic-medium classroom interaction 109
- Brokering co-participants’ volition in request and offer sequences 135
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Part II. Moving towards shared understanding
- Decision-making in salesperson–customer interaction 163
- Building an intersubjective understanding of the patient’s mental suffering 183
- Shared understandings of the human–nature relationship in encounters with small wildlife 201
- Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish conversation 231
- Co-presence during lapses 251
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Part III. Bodies and intersubjectivity
- Achieving the intersubjectivity of sensorial practices 279
- Emotion, psychophysiology, and intersubjectivity 303
- Movement synchrony as a topic of empirical social interaction research 329
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Part IV. Evolving intersubjectivity
- Learning to request in interaction 349
- How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal 373
- Interactional reciprocity in human–dog interaction 397
- Appendix. Transcription conventions and glossing symbols 429
- Index 435
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Intersubjectivity in action 1
-
Part I. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
- Organizing the “we” in interaction 25
- Definitely indefinite 41
- Directive turn design and intersubjectivity 61
- On agency and affiliation in second assessments 81
- Mirror-like address practice in Arabic-medium classroom interaction 109
- Brokering co-participants’ volition in request and offer sequences 135
-
Part II. Moving towards shared understanding
- Decision-making in salesperson–customer interaction 163
- Building an intersubjective understanding of the patient’s mental suffering 183
- Shared understandings of the human–nature relationship in encounters with small wildlife 201
- Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish conversation 231
- Co-presence during lapses 251
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Part III. Bodies and intersubjectivity
- Achieving the intersubjectivity of sensorial practices 279
- Emotion, psychophysiology, and intersubjectivity 303
- Movement synchrony as a topic of empirical social interaction research 329
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Part IV. Evolving intersubjectivity
- Learning to request in interaction 349
- How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal 373
- Interactional reciprocity in human–dog interaction 397
- Appendix. Transcription conventions and glossing symbols 429
- Index 435
