Abstract
The social world is inextricably linked to its physical environment. The way in
which social interaction makes material objects relevant to meaningful practices
has consequences for the flow of interactions.
In this article we examine how participants inspect unknown objects and how
their different materiality determines the course of such inspections. We are interested in the resources that are mobilized in the inspection, how participants initiate, organize and complete these inspections; how they use different senses, depending on the materiality of the objects they are inspecting, and how they become momentarily unavailable for the surrounding interaction, while performing recognizably "private" activities.
Our data come from design workshops, tastings, grocery shopping and teaching
with different participation frameworks (single action, two- and multi-party interaction).
which social interaction makes material objects relevant to meaningful practices
has consequences for the flow of interactions.
In this article we examine how participants inspect unknown objects and how
their different materiality determines the course of such inspections. We are interested in the resources that are mobilized in the inspection, how participants initiate, organize and complete these inspections; how they use different senses, depending on the materiality of the objects they are inspecting, and how they become momentarily unavailable for the surrounding interaction, while performing recognizably "private" activities.
Our data come from design workshops, tastings, grocery shopping and teaching
with different participation frameworks (single action, two- and multi-party interaction).
Original language | English |
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Journal | Gesprächsforschung |
Issue number | 20 |
Pages (from-to) | 399-343 |
ISSN | 1617-1837 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | IPrA Conference 2017 - Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 17. Jul 2017 → 21. Jul 2017 |
Conference
Conference | IPrA Conference 2017 |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Belfast |
Period | 17/07/2017 → 21/07/2017 |
Keywords
- Ethnomethodology
- multimodality
- multisensoriality
- inspection
- objects
- unknown objects
- tastings