Social Action Formats
| Number: | P57 |
| Organizer: | Kärkkäinen, Elise |
| Co-Organizer: | Tiina Keisanen |
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| In line with the conference theme “Multimodal Interaction”, the panel focuses on the relationship between talk and embodied practices in social interaction. The papers in the panel provide insights to the interrelations between linguistic form, prosody and various embodied practices deployed by discourse participants in the construction of actions and turns-at-talk. From a conversation analytic point of view, some research has viewed talk as organizationally fundamental and body behavior temporally and sequentially organized with respect to it (Schegloff 1984, Drew 2005), while the body may sometimes perform actions without language. On the other hand, a great deal of work has been done on linguistic structures in the sequential organization of social interaction (e.g. Couper-Kuhlen and Thompson 2005, 2008, Curl 2006). But very little work exists of the complex relations among grammatical form, sequential organization and embodiment. The approach advocated in this panel relates primarily to the work that examines talk and body behavior together as complementary aspects of talk-in-interaction, and how exactly different modalities may work together to constitute coherent courses of action (C. Goodwin 2000a, 2000b, M. Goodwin 1980). Another central theoretical and practical starting point for the papers in the panel is the concept of ‘social action formats’ (Fox 2000, 2007). By these we understand the recurrent linguistic routines, conversational patterns, turn-constructional formats, and formats for enacting particular activities that originate in the interactional needs of participants in talk-in-interaction. The panel includes paper presentations and a joint discussion of the papers by two discussants. The papers examine embodied practices and social action formats used for turn construction and turn continuation, in paired sequences of action as well as in extended turns. |
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