Flood2018

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Flood2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Flood2018
Author(s) Virginia J. Flood
Title Multimodal revoicing as an interactional mechanism for connecting scientific and everyday concepts
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Tag(s) EMCA, Multimodality, Scientific concepts, Ethnomethodology
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Human Development
Volume 61
Number 3
Pages 145–173
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DOI 10.1159/000488693
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Abstract

A perpetual problem learners face is identifying which aspects of embodied experiences are relevant for appreciating the world in culturally specific ways. Vygotsky argued that social interactions with more competent cultural members provide arenas for linking everyday and scientific concepts. However, the precise interactional mechanisms of how these linkages are forged remain underexamined. I argue that understanding these mechanisms requires examining how intersubjectivity is built and maintained. I propose that ethnomethodological conversation analysis and the co-operative action framework provide a uniquely suited analytic orientation for this project because they focus on the fine details of the actual practical methods people use to procedurally achieve intersubjectivity. To illustrate the utility of these approaches, I show how the fine details of multimodal revoicing interactions present semiotic challenges that allow learners to link everyday and scientific concepts. Specifically, I examine the role dialogic gesture plays in reformulating a multimodally expressed idea about what it means to “go faster.”

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