@article{KallmeyerStreeck2016,
  author    = {Werner Kallmeyer and J{\"u}rgen Streeck},
  title     = {Interaction by inscription},
  series   = {Journal of Pragmatics},
  volume    = {33},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  doi       = {10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00126-5},
  pages     = {465 -- 490},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {This paper investigates uses of inscriptions — graphic acts and the marks resulting from them — as rhetorical and socio-symbolic devices in face-to-face interaction. The analysis of a business-negotiation between two German entrepreneurs reveals that the integration of inscriptions and talk often yields hybrid symbols: while signifying within an instrumental domain such as record-keeping or accounting, they may simultaneously participate in the ‘mise-en-sc{\`e}ne’ of conversational action or serve as metaphoric ‘graphic gestures’. Reconstructing these local meanings of inscriptions requires close analysis of the co-ordination of talk and graphic activity, of the movement patterns of graphic acts, and of the visual gestalt of graphic marks. The paper ends with a discussion of inscriptions as turn-construction units.},
  language  = {en}
}