Arnold2012
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Arnold2012 |
| Author(s) | Lynnette Arnold |
| Title | Dialogic embodied action: using gesture to organize sequence and participation in instructional interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Gesture, Instructions |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 45 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 269–296 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2012.699256 |
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Abstract
Interactional analysts have long argued for the importance of tying techniques, which function to connect the current speaker's utterance to the actions of a previous speaker, in the organization of turns at talk (M. H. Goodwin, 1990; Sacks, 1992c). The organization of embodied actions through such dialogic tying, however, has received far less attention, a gap addressed by this article in its examination of one nonverbal tying technique: dialogic embodied action. In this phenomenon, coparticipants purposefully take up and selectively reproduce particular features of one another's gestures and instrumental actions. Drawing on data from instructional interactions at a bicycle-repair shop, the analysis demonstrates that focusing on the selectivity of such reproductions elucidates two functions of these dialogic actions: (a) to organize intersubjective engagement, facilitating coparticipants' enactment of aligned participant roles and (b) to structure sequential organization through actions that are visibly constituted as prior to other actions.
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