Mortensen2024
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Mortensen2024 |
| Author(s) | Kristian Mortensen, Spencer Hazel |
| Title | The Temporal Organisation of Leaning in Social Interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Leaning, Temporality, Bodily conduct, Gravity |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality |
| Volume | 7 |
| Number | 4 |
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| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.7146/si.v7i4.152386 |
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Abstract
EMCA research has documented how the moving human body is a core resource for sense-making. This means that people engaged in interaction are constantly foraging for materials from which to fashion their contributions (Goodwin, 2018). Co-participants, in turn, are faced with a set of raw materials being mobilised and potentially used as resources for sense-making. In this paper, we focus on a particular bodily movement, learning forward. The unsupported lean is temporally organized and bringing the body off balance projects that the lean will be resolved. The study uses video-data from a range of institutional settings to explore how a leaning body is treated as indexing a range of social actions. We discuss this as having emerged from the human capacity to stand upright, and a shared knowledge of the additional exertion required to counteract gravitational forces when bringing the upper body off its vertical axis.
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