Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 8/15/2011
EAN 9780521895637, ISBN10: 0521895634

Hardcover, 326 pages, 27.9 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources (such as gaze and gesture) to bring about coherent and intelligible courses of action? How are physical settings, artifacts, technologies and non-linguistic sign-systems implicated in social interaction and shared cognition? This volume brings together advanced work by leading international scholars who share video-based research methods that integrate semiotic, linguistic, sociological, anthropological and cognitive science perspectives with detailed, microanalytic observations. Collectively they provide a coherent framework for analyzing the production of meaning and the organization of social interaction in the complex and heterogeneous settings that are characteristic of modern life. Embodied Interaction is indispensable for anyone interested in the study of language and social interaction. This volume will be a point of reference for future research on multimodality in human communication and action.

1. Embodied interaction in the material world
an introduction Jürgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron
Part I. Founding Capacities
2. Collaborative construction of multimodal utterances Edwin Hutchins and Saeko Nomura
3. Formal structures of practical tasks
a resource for action in the social life of very young children Gene H. Lerner, Don H. Zimmerman and Mardi Kidwell
4. Elements of formulation N. J. Enfield
5. The changing meanings of things
found objects and inscriptions in social interaction Jürgen Streeck
6. Choreographies of attention
multimodality in a routine family activity Eve Tulbert and Marjorie Harness Goodwin
7. Some functions of speaker head nods Hiromi Aoki
8. The multimodal mechanics of collaborative unit construction in Japanese conversation Shimako Iwasaki
Part II. Transformational Ecologies
9. Creating contexts for actions
multimodal practices for managing children's conduct in the childcare classroom Siri Mehus
10. Multilingual multimodality
communicative difficulties and their solutions in second language use Marianne Gullberg
11. On the use of graphic resources in interaction by people with communication disorders Ray Wilkinson, Steven Bloch and Michael Clarke
12. Terra incognita
social interaction among blind children Sharon Avital and Jürgen Streeck
13. Contextures of action Charles Goodwin
14. 'A full inspiration tray'
multimodality across real and virtual spaces Elizabeth Keating and Chiho Sunakawa
Part III. Professional Communities
15. The organization of concurrent courses of action in surgical demonstrations Lorenza Mondada
16. Pursuing a response
prodding recognition and expertise within a surgical team Alan Zemel, Timothy Koschmann and Curtis LeBaron
17. Building stories
the embodied narration of what might come to pass Keith M. Murphy
18. Embodied arguments
verbal claims and bodily evidence Julien C. Mirivel
19. Facilitating tool use in the photography studio through language, gesture, and the act of comparison Scott Phillabaum
20. Gesture and institutional interaction Christian Heath and Paul Luff
21. Musical spaces John B. Haviland.