Tuncer2020

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Tuncer2020
BibType ARTICLE
Key Tuncer2020
Author(s) Sylvaine Tuncer, Pentti Haddington
Title Object transfers: An embodied resource to progress joint activities and build relative agency
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Tag(s) EMCA, multimodal interactions, objects in interaction, object transfers, agency
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Year 2020
Language English
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 49
Number 1
Pages 61–87
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DOI 10.1017/S004740451900071X
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Abstract

This article builds on ethnomethodological, conversation analytic research on object transfers: how participants hand over objects to one another. By analyzing video recordings of mundane (cars) and institutional interactions (laboratories), we focus on situations where an object is central to and talked about in the joint course of action. We focus on different organizations of object transfer and show that one embodied move is decisive, either a sequentially implicative ‘give’ or an arm extension designed as a stand-alone ‘take’. We examine the interrelationship between the organization of the object transfer and the broader course of action (e.g. request or offer sequence), which is either overlapping or intersecting. We demonstrate that by making the decisive move, either the participant initially holding the object or her recipient critically influences the progression and trajectory of the activity, and displays agency.

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