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Dropping out of overlap is a frequent practice for overlap resolution (Schegloff, 2000, Jefferson, 2004) in interaction, as it re-establishes the “one-at-a-time” principle of the turn-taking system (Sacks et al., 1974). While it is appropriate to analyze the practice of dropping out of overlap as a verbal and thus audible phenomenon, a close look at video data reveals that withdrawing from an action trajectory is also an embodied practice. Based on a fine-grained multimodal analysis (C. Goodwin, 1981, Mondada, 2007a, Mondada, 2007b) of videotaped interactions in French, this paper illustrates how overlapped speakers organize the momentary suspension of their action trajectory in visible ways. Indeed, participants do not instantly withdraw from their action trajectory when they stop talking. By using bodily resources, they are able to display continuous monitoring of the availability of their co-participants and of the next possible slot for resuming their suspended action. I therefore suggest analyzing the drop out of overlap as the first step of withdrawal, as definitive, embodied withdrawal can occur later, or, in case of resumption, not at all. Consequently, my paper analyzes withdrawal as a good example of strengthening the analytic concept of embodiment with regard to turn-taking practices in interaction.
Based on German speaking data from various activity types, the range of multimodal resources used to construct turn-beginnings is reviewed. It is claimed that participants in talk-in-interaction need to deal with four tasks in order to construct a turn which precisely fits the interactional moment of its production:
1. Achieve joint orientation: The accomplishment of the socio-spatial prerequisites necessary for producing a turn which is to become part of the participants’ common ground.
2. Display uptake: Next speaker needs to display his/her understanding of the interaction so far as the backdrop on which the production of the upcoming turn is based.
3. Deal with projections from prior talk: The speaker has to deal with projections which have been established by (the) previous turn(s) with respect to the upcoming turn.
4. Project properties of turn-in-progress: The speaker needs to orient the recipient to properties of the turn s/he is about to produce.
Turn-design thus can be seen to be informed by tasks related to the multimodal, embodied, and interactive contingencies of online-construction of turns. The four tasks are ordered in terms of prior tasks providing the prerequisite for accomplishing a later task.
In recent times presentations have drawn the attention of scientific interest as a new form of communication. In visualization of abstract structures or relationships in scholarly presentations using diagrams, different medial layers of meaning are conjoined in a very special way. The present paper examines firstly the multimodal structure of presentations and the mechanisms of establishing cross-modality coherence. Then the results of a reception experiment are discussed that gives rise to the assumption that multimodality can in fact improve the understanding of scholarly presentations. In the final part of the paper the production of an abstract visualization in a scholarly presentation is exemplified with regard to the solution of disambiguation and linearization problems. We claim that abstract visualizations in presentations are used to produce narratives by the speaker, and without such narratives this kind of visualization cannot be understood properly.
Der Beitrag ist eine fallbasierte und konzeptionell ausgerichtete Auseinandersetzung mit dem konversationsanalytischen Konzept „recipient design“. Dieses wird zunächst in seinem monomodal-verbalen Entstehungszusammenhang erläutert und anschließend aus Perspektive der multimodalen Interaktionsanalyse reflektiert. In einem methodologischen Exkurs werden die Verfahren der „visuellen Erstanalyse“ und der „rekurrenten Mehrebenen-Analyse“ vorgestellt und im analytischen Teil umgesetzt. So wird zunächst das visuell wahrnehmbare Verhalten, dann die Äußerungs- und Interaktionsstruktur und abschließend die Prosodie eines lehrerseitigen recipient design analysiert. In einem fallanalytischen Resümee präsentieren wir im Detail das Zusammenspiel der bei der Produktion dieses multimodalen recipient design beteiligten Ausdrucksressourcen. Abschließend diskutieren wir eine Reihe offener Punkte, die bei einer multimodalen Konzeption von recipient design zu beachten sind. Dabei wird deutlich, dass recipient design theoretisch neu gerahmt und systematisch in Bezug auf online-analytische und verstehensdokumentarische Überlegungen reflektiert werden muss.