Goodwin1986c

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Goodwin1986c
BibType ARTICLE
Key Goodwin1986c
Author(s) Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Charles Goodwin
Title Gesture and coparticipation in the activity of searching for a word
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Tag(s) EMCA, Gesture, Word Search
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Year 1986
Language English
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Journal Semiotica
Volume 62
Number 1-2
Pages 51–75
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DOI 10.1515/semi.1986.62.1-2.51
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Abstract

In this paper gesture will be studied by analyzing in some detail its organization within a particular activity, searching for a word. Such an approach is quite different from others that often study such phenomena by isolating gesture from the local, interactive circumstances of its production (..).However, by investigating gesture within particular events, it is possible to begin to study in some detail not only how participants find it to be meaningful, but also how they use that meaningfulness as a constitutive feature of the social organization of the activities they are engaged in. Data for this analysis consist of videotapes of conversations recorded in a range of natural settings.

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