Edmonds-Weatherall2019

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Edmonds-Weatherall2019
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Edmonds-Weatherall2019
Author(s) David Matthew Edmonds, Ann Weatherall
Title Managing verbal and embodied conduct in telephone-mediated service encounters
Editor(s) Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Lucía Fernández-Amaya, María de la O Hernández-López
Tag(s) EMCA, Telephone-mediated interaction, Closings, Embodied conduct, Multiactivity
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2019
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 71–96
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.300.03mat
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Howpublished
Book title Technology Mediated Service Encounters
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Abstract

In telephone-mediated service encounters, there are limits on how parties interact with one another. Speakers are restricted to only verbal (what they say) and aural (what they hear) means of communication. Therefore, a practical problem at the heart of such interactions is how speakers manage embodied conduct, given that they can only hear – rather than see the other person. We investigated how verbal and embodied conduct were managed in a corpus of 63 calls to a New Zealand helpline service where callers (complainants) interact with conciliators (institutional representatives) to complain about, and attempt to resolve disputes with their electricity and gas providers. Using conversation analysis, we document two ways that callers could manage verbal and embodied conduct in a particular type of sequence in these calls.

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