Streeck2001
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Jürgen Streeck, Werner Kallmeyer |
| Title | Interaction by Inscription |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, writing, conversational rhetoric, nonverbal communication, gestures, hybrid symbols |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 33 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 465–490 |
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| DOI | 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00126-5 |
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Abstract
This paper investigates uses of inscriptions — graphic acts and the marks resulting from them — as rhetorical and socio-symbolic devices in face-to-face interaction. The analysis of a business-negotiation between two German entrepreneurs reveals that the integration of inscriptions and talk often yields hybrid symbols: while signifying within an instrumental domain such as record-keeping or accounting, they may simultaneously participate in the ‘mise-en-scène’ of conversational action or serve as metaphoric ‘graphic gestures’. Reconstructing these local meanings of inscriptions requires close analysis of the co-ordination of talk and graphic activity, of the movement patterns of graphic acts, and of the visual gestalt of graphic marks. The paper ends with a discussion of inscriptions as turn-construction units.
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