Moving through space: Passenger-initiated junction-negotiation
| Panel: | P54 - Space as resource and achievement |
| Author: | Haddington, Pentti |
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| Driving and passengering involves movement through space, which in turn provides a continuous and complex flow of resources that in-car participants can orient to and use for accomplishing joint driving. This paper draws on data that has been recorded in real driving situations. It relies on conversation analytic and multimodal interaction analytic methods and focuses on a sequential activity called ‘passenger-initiated junction-negotiation’ in which passengers initiate an activity about the car’s direction at the next junction. This paper adds to current conversation analytic research by investigation how social actions are produced, understood and socially accomplished in while being mobile. More specifically it focuses on the following interactional features of joint driving at junctions: 1) It shows how in-car participants coordinate their actions between two parallel sequential contexts: the “in-car sequential context” and the sequential happenings in the mobile context outside the car. 2) It shows how drivers and passengers rely on the mobile and spatial context or other resources (e.g. talk and the use of the indicator) as a meaningful resource for projecting and anticipating a particular driving action. 3) It shows how passengers can temporally position a repair initiation so that it adjusts with the mobile context rather than the sequential context inside the car, which further shows how passengers orient to and prioritize the temporal constraints provided by the mobile context. 4) It shows how drivers and passengers jointly construct understandings of the driving situation by building upon the features of the mobile space. More generally, this research shows how passengers can positively contribute to the driving activity, which is something current driving and accident research rarely considers. |
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