Sutinen2014
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Sutinen2014 |
| Author(s) | Marika Sutinen |
| Title | Negotiating favourable conditions for resuming suspended activities |
| Editor(s) | Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada, Maurice Nevile |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, multiactivity |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2014 |
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| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 137–166 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/z.187.05sut |
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| Book title | Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond Multitasking |
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Abstract
This paper examines how participants in multiactivity situations are able to resume an ongoing activity that becomes temporarily suspended in favour of a locally emergent, competing line of action. Detailed analyses of video data from English and Finnish everyday interactions show that resumptions are not achieved unproblematically at the first suitable transition-relevant slot but involve a gradual, stepwise process of multimodal negotiations, where participants first collaboratively establish favourable conditions for resumption. It is argued that these negotiations represent a local instance of multiactivity in practice, i.e. where organising multiactivity becomes a demonstrable concern for the participants. The gradualness of resumptions provides participants with an interactional resource that can be exploited to flexibly manage activity transitions in complex multiactivity situations.
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