GRaymond2014

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GRaymond2014
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key GRaymond2014
Author(s) Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner
Title A body and its involvements: adjusting action for dual involvements
Editor(s) Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada, Maurice Nevile
Tag(s) EMCA, dual involvements, body, suspending, retarding
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2014
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 227–246
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DOI 10.1075/z.187.08ray
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Howpublished
Book title Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond Multitasking
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Abstract

This chapter investigates some of the ways participants use adjusting actions to produce a range of emergent relationships between distinct courses of action. It describes body-behaviourally realised practices for the management of two intersecting courses of action. We first show how the continuing realisation of two courses of action can be preserved moment-by-moment with only negligible adjustments. We then describe how two adjusting actions – suspending and retarding – can be deployed to sustain visible commitment to an ongoing course of action while pursuing a second course of action, thereby realising the second course of action as interjected into the first. In summary, this chapter shows how forms of ‘multiactivity’ emerge as practical solutions to dual involvements in interaction with others.

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