Harjunpaa2025a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Harjunpaa2025a |
| Author(s) | Katariina Harjunpää, Liisa Voutilainen |
| Title | Other-Adjustment and Beyond: Role-Specific Resources for Achieving Movement Synchrony During the 'Mirror Game' |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Dance, Improvisation, Micro-sequentiality, Multimodality, Other-adjustment, Synchrony |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality |
| Volume | 8 |
| Number | 1 |
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| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.7146/si.v8i1.148690 |
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Abstract
Based on video recordings in a community dance workshop, this study examines how participants engaged in a "mirror exercise" coordinate movement synchrony at moments of dysfluency. The results show how they (re)achieve synchrony by making other-adjustments – decelerating, suspending, or returning to an earlier movement phase. These micro-sequentially organized adjustments within movement trajectories allow progression of the mirroring task. We also investigate the extent to which the participants employ other trouble-oriented interactional resources such as gazing at the partner or the instructor, facial expression, laughter, and talk, thereby increasingly distancing themselves from the task and sometimes prematurely abandoning it. The findings illustrate how participants accomplish synchronous movement in practice, and use different modalities in its coordination. They also reveal a connection between using different sets of multimodal resources and enacting different participant roles (improviser vs. workshop attendee, leading vs. following mover, student vs. instructor).
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