Embodied Activities in Face-To-Face and Mediated Settings: Social Encounters in Time and Space 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Reber, Elisabeth (Editor), Gerhardt, Cornelia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 331997324X ISBN-13: 9783319973241 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $170.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Pragmatics - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
Dewey: 302.2 |
Physical Information: 1.44" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (2.02 lbs) 459 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This edited book revisits the concept of social 'activities' from an interactional perspective, examining how verbal, vocal, visual-spatial and material resources are deployed by participants for meaning-making in social encounters. The eleven original chapters within this volume analyse activities based on video recordings of naturalistic and naturally occurring social encounters from face-to-face and mediated settings in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, and German. Informed primarily by the methodological approaches of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, the authors study embodiment in space and time in three distinct types of situations: objects in space, complex participation frameworks, and affiliation and alignment. Moreover, the book includes a theoretical and methodological discussion of how activities are constituted and visibly embodied in interaction. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology and linguistics in general, and face-to-face and mediated interaction in particular. |