DeStefani-Mondada2018

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DeStefani-Mondada2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key DeStefani-Mondada2018
Author(s) Elwys De Stefani, Lorenza Mondada
Title Encounters in public space: how acquainted versus unacquainted persons establish social and spatial arrangements
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Tag(s) EMCA, Public space, Encounters, Opening sequences, Acquaintance, stranger, Familiarity
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 51
Number 3
Pages 248–270
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2018.1485230
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Abstract

This article studies how people enter into interactions in public space by examining casual encounters initiated either by strangers or acquainted persons. It contributes to the study of openings of interactions in public space from a conversation analytic perspective. The analysis reveals systematic similarities and differences between these two kinds of encounters, with regard to the prospective participants’ recognition, identification, and categorization, their spatial approach, the absence vs. presence of greetings, the delivery of a reason for the encounter vs. the manifestation of the social relation, and the shaping of the embodied participation framework. Data are in French and Italian with English translations.

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