Streeck2018b

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Streeck2018b
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Streeck2018b
Author(s) Jürgen Streeck
Title Times of rest: Temporalities of some communicative postures
Editor(s) Arnulf Deppermann, Jürgen Streeck
Tag(s) EMCA, Coordination, Living body, Posture, Time-scale, Temporality
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2018
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 325–350
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.293.10str
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Institution
School
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Howpublished
Book title Time in Embodied Interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources
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Abstract

This chapter discusses how multiple time-scales intersect in a particular unit of embodied communicative action, body postures that are held for a moment (beyond the single sequence of talk). These time-scales are the immediate moment and its position within the unfolding interaction sequence; the personal (‘historical’) relationship among the specific persons adopting it (its duration); the workday over whose course the body tires; and the life-course over which a bodily ‘habitus’ is formed. The specific shape of a socially meaningful posture is not only responsive to interactional circumstances and tasks, as well as the relational history of the parties, but also a result of the body’s ongoing adaptations to its own organic needs, a factor taken into account in everyday perceptions and descriptions of postures, but yet to be addressed in interaction research. The posture samples in this chapter are taken from interactions in an auto-shop and a high-school classroom.

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