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There has been a long-standing interest in projection and the resources on which participants rely to produce and recognize the import and organization of turns at talk. Less attention has been paid to the character of the activity in which utterances form part and the ways in which embodied action enables the intelligibility, coordination, and in some cases, coproduction, of particular actions. In this article, we focus on specialized forms of embodied, institutional activity and focus in particular on simultaneity and the ways in which bodily action enables the progressive formation and reformation of an activity in the light of the (co)participants’ emerging contributions. We address how the routine structure of particular tasks enables participants to anticipate, prepare for, and even initiate actions in advance of the relevant activity and in turn, how participants may seek to ameliorate the interactional import of potentially premature action. The articles explores the interplay of technical practice and interactional organization and points to the distinctive character of embodied action in understanding anticipation and coordination in complex forms of institutional interaction.
Based on longitudinal audiovisual data from family interactions, we focus on how young children between 1;08 and 2;10 report trouble they are encountering in their current activity using the response cry oh in combination with other lexical items (e.g., “oh fell off”) and bodily displays. While at a very young age the children remain focused on their activity and try to solve the problem independently, at an older age they start to systematically use gaze directed toward the parent and suspension of the current activity to enlist the adult’s assistance. We argue that these bodily displays are among the resources whose presence or absence constrains whether the report of trouble leads to the recruitment of assistance or not. Regarding the developmental implications, it seems that during their third year of life, young children expand their repertoire for dealing with trouble interactively. Data are in German with English translations.
Research on multimodal interaction has shown that simultaneity of embodied behavior and talk is constitutive for social action. In this study, we demonstrate different temporal relationships between verbal and embodied actions. We focus on uses of German darf/kann ich? (“may/can I?”) in which speakers initiate, or even complete the embodied action that is addressed by the turn before the recipient’s response. We argue that through such embodied conduct, the speaker bodily enacts high agency, which is at odds with the low deontic stance they express through their darf/kann ich?-TCUs. In doing so, speakers presuppose that the intersubjective permissibility of the action is highly probable or even certain. Moreover, we demonstrate how the speaker’s embodied action, joint perceptual salience of referents, and the projectability of the action addressed with darf/kann ich? allow for a lean syntactic design of darf/kann ich?-TCUs (i.e., pronominalization, object omission, and main verb omission). Our findings underscore the reflexive relationship between lean syntax, sequential organization and multimodal conduct.
Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich auf der Grundlage einer Einzelfallanalyse mit der Frage, wie Personen erkennbar machen, dass sie an einer Interaktion beteiligt sind. Die Frage, wer auf welche Weise und mit welchen Rechten und Pflichten an einer Interaktion teilnimmt/teilnehmen darf, und woran dies die Beteiligten und der Analytiker erkennen, gehört zu den etablierten Fragestellungen der Interaktionsanalyse. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wendet sich der Autor diesem Thema mit einem spezifischen Erkenntnisinteresse zu: Ihn interessiert, wie Personen, die über eine längere Phase keinen verbalen Beitrag zur Interaktion leisten, verdeutlichen, dass sie sich ungeachtet ihrer verbalen Abstinenz als Teil der laufenden Interaktion verstehen und verhalten. Oder, um es im Vorgriff auf spätere konzeptuelle Überlegungen zu formulieren: Dass sie Mitglieder/Beteiligte eines Interaktionsensembles sind, ohne sich verbal an dessen Konstitution zu beteiligen. Im Zentrum des Erkenntnisinteresses steht die Frage nach den Ressourcen, die von den verbal abstinenten Interaktionsbeteiligten eingesetzt werden, um zu verdeutlichen, dass sie an einer laufenden Interaktion teilnehmen und die Frage nach Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden in den Beteiligungsformaten, die sie dabei produzieren.