Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings Social Enc
This edited book revisits the concept of social ‘activities’ from an interactional perspective, examining how verbal, vocal, visual-spatial and material resources are deployed by participants for meaning-making in social encounters. The eleven original ch
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Embodied Activities in Face�to�face and Mediated Settings Edited by Elisabeth Reber and Cornelia Gerhardt
Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings “Balancing expertly observed analyses of talk and other embodied conduct in interaction with lively and insightful discussions of larger methodological and theoretical questions posed by the study of these phenomena, this first-rate collection of studies is essential reading for anyone interested in social interaction as a point of production for the social life of humans.” —Geoffrey Raymond, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA “The rising interest in embodied interaction has produced a wealth of empirical research and insights into the manifold ways body parts, body movements, and sensory modalities participate in sense-making and social organization. But it has also moved viewpoints and displaced some of the categories of analysis of interaction phenomena. This book shows that the basic unit of embodied interaction is neither the utterance, the turn at talk, nor the action sequence, but the overall activity or course of action. Within commonly known activities human bodies are capable to some degree to tacitly understand what each other are doing, and this preconceptual, intercorporeal understanding grounds human interaction even in advanced, technological-mediated environments. This book reveals in vivid detail and in an astonishing array of activities— ranging from sports to meetings to surgery—how talk and bodily actions are intertwined. It not only demonstrates that intersubjectivity is grounded in intercorporeality but also that this grounding takes many different forms across and within activities. It is a pleasure to observe how each of the contributors engages fundamental theoretical concerns by investigating in detail how people and professionals bring about the simple and complex activities that make up their daily lives.” —Jürgen Streeck, University of Texas at Austin, USA “The volume by Gerhardt and Reber beautifully shows how an enormous variety of bodily resources is mobilized in various types of social interaction in order to perform actions.” —Arnulf Deppermann, Institute for the German Language IDS and University of Mannheim, Germany
“An impressive, well-considered selection of contributions on the timely topic of embodied interaction. The focus on activities in diverse social contexts provides a rich research perspective for substantive steps forward in our understanding of the practices of showing, looking, and seeing, indeed, of instructing how to and learning how to see, in real-life interaction.” —Neal R. Norrick, Saarland University, Germany
Elisabeth Reber · Cornelia Gerhardt Editors
Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings Social Encounters in Time and Space
Editors Elisabeth Reber Institute of New Philologies, Modern Languages University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany
Cornelia Gerhardt Department of English Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-97324-1 ISBN 978-3-319-9732
