Arnold2012

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Arnold2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Arnold2012
Author(s) Lynnette Arnold
Title Dialogic embodied action: using gesture to organize sequence and participation in instructional interaction
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Tag(s) EMCA, Gesture, Instructions
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Year 2012
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 45
Number 3
Pages 269–296
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2012.699256
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Abstract

Interactional analysts have long argued for the importance of tying techniques, which function to connect the current speaker's utterance to the actions of a previous speaker, in the organization of turns at talk (M. H. Goodwin, 1990; Sacks, 1992c). The organization of embodied actions through such dialogic tying, however, has received far less attention, a gap addressed by this article in its examination of one nonverbal tying technique: dialogic embodied action. In this phenomenon, coparticipants purposefully take up and selectively reproduce particular features of one another's gestures and instrumental actions. Drawing on data from instructional interactions at a bicycle-repair shop, the analysis demonstrates that focusing on the selectivity of such reproductions elucidates two functions of these dialogic actions: (a) to organize intersubjective engagement, facilitating coparticipants' enactment of aligned participant roles and (b) to structure sequential organization through actions that are visibly constituted as prior to other actions.

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