Mlynar2022a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Mlynar2022a |
| Author(s) | Jakub Mlynář |
| Title | Lifting the pen and the gaze: embodied recruitment in collaborative writing |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Collaborative writing, Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Recruitment, Requesting, Writing-in-interaction |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Text & Talk |
| Volume | 43 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 69-91 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1515/text-2020-0148 |
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Abstract
This article investigates sequences of collaborative writing that are part of classroom interaction in student dyads and triads working with a digital device and a paper worksheet. In analyzing instances from a corpus of 18 h of video recordings made in five high-school classrooms through an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach, I focus on two embodied practices which do the work of recruiting assistance during the course of inscribing: lifting the pen and lifting the gaze. These practices are viewed as ordinary digressions from the basic posture of the writing body. I demonstrate that lifting the pen as a recruitment practice can be done as a brief stopping of the pen in its movement, as wrist rotation, or as hand elevation. Lifting the gaze can have varying temporal properties and occur synchronously with hand-on-face gestures. I conclude that collaborative writing underlines the indeterminacy of bodily practices as either recruitments, requests or contributions to joint courses of action. I also suggest that the identified practices may be further investigated as components of the specific speech-exchange system inherent to the activity of writing together.
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