Gerhardt2019
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Gerhardt2019 |
| Author(s) | Cornelia Gerhardt |
| Title | ‘Showing’ as a means of engaging a reluctant participant into a joint activity |
| Editor(s) | Elisabeth Reber, Cornelia Gerhardt |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year | 2019 |
| Language | English |
| City | Cham |
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| Pages | 137–176 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-97325-8_5 |
| ISBN | 978-3-319-97324-1 |
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| Book title | Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings: Social Encounters in Time and Space |
| Chapter | 5 |
Abstract
The gesture ‘showing’ helps shape a specific activity as well as local roles and moral obligations. Against the backdrop of the activity of a father and daughter “cleaning her room”, this paper raises the question why participants choose to pick up an object rather than simply point at it. In contrast to ‘pointing’, the gesture ‘showing’ involves picking up the object moving it into the projected site of vision of the addressee to establish mutual orientation and a joint activity space. ‘Showing’ appears to be a powerful means to increase the relevance of a response against the backdrop of the trajectory of the unfolding activity. It allows for manipulations of the object and it represents a display of greater commitment, closer association or contiguity.
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