Retrospective and prospective orientation in the construction of argumentative moves
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Charles Goodwin
Charles Goodwin's interests include video analysis of talk-in-interaction, grammar in context, cognition in the lived social world, gesture, gaze, and embodiment as interactively organized social practices, aphasia in discourse, language in the professions, the interaction of surgeons, and the ethnography of science. He has done fieldwork with families, chemists, and airline workers in the United States, oceanographers in the mouth of the Amazon, and archaeologists in the United States and Argentina. He is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at UCLA.
Abstract
Analysis focuses on how utterances opposing another position in an argument are constructed with a simultaneous orientation to (a) the detailed structure of the prior utterance being opposed and (b) the future trajectories of action projected by that utterance, which the current utterance attempts to counter and intercept. Through such practices participants treat each other as cognitively complex, reflexive actors who are reshaping a contested, consequential social landscape through the choices they make as they build each next action. Data is drawn from a dispute between a father and his son who is just entering adolescence.
About the author
Charles Goodwin's interests include video analysis of talk-in-interaction, grammar in context, cognition in the lived social world, gesture, gaze, and embodiment as interactively organized social practices, aphasia in discourse, language in the professions, the interaction of surgeons, and the ethnography of science. He has done fieldwork with families, chemists, and airline workers in the United States, oceanographers in the mouth of the Amazon, and archaeologists in the United States and Argentina. He is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at UCLA.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial: Advances in family interaction studies
- Introduction
- ‘Honey, I'm home!’: Framing in family dinnertime homecomings
- Retrospective and prospective orientation in the construction of argumentative moves
- Public medium, private talk: Gossip about a TV show as ‘quotidian hermeneutics’
- Habits of the hearth: Children's bedtime routines as relational work
- Participation, affect, and trajectory in family directive/response sequences
- Reshaping prior text, reshaping identities
- Parents' inquiries about homework: The first mention
- Intertextuality in interaction: Reframing family arguments in public and private
- Commentary 1. Doing family: An interactive accomplishment
- Commentary 2. Building the micros toward seeing the macro
