Mikkola2014

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Mikkola2014
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Mikkola2014
Author(s) Piia Mikkola, Esa Lehtinen
Title Initiating activity shifts through use of appraisal forms as material objects during performance appraisal interviews
Editor(s) Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann, Mirka Rauniomaa
Tag(s) EMCA
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2014
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Journal
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Pages 57–78
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DOI 10.1075/z.186.03mik
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School
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Howpublished
Book title Interacting with Objects: Language, Materiality, and Social Activity
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Abstract

This study shows how participants of performance appraisal interviews use appraisal forms as material objects in initiations of activity shifts. Participants negotiate their willingness to proceed from one interview item to another by gazing at, pointing toward and manipulating the forms. This study contributes to earlier studies of written documents as material objects in interaction, by showing, firstly, how written documents can be used in a step-by-step embodied negotiation; secondly, how orientation to material objects makes it possible for participants to conduct two activities at the same time; and thirdly, how the document’s role as the agenda of an encounter is consequential for the activity. The data of this study consist of six video-recorded appraisal interviews from a Finnish public organisation.

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