Nanbu2024
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Nanbu2024 |
Author(s) | Zachary Nanbu, Tim Greer |
Title | Embodied Mapping: Negotiating Epistemic Access during Initial Place Reference |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Maps, Conversation analysis, Epistemics |
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Year | 2024 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Research On Language and Social Interaction |
Volume | 57 |
Number | 4 |
Pages | 345-371 |
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DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2024.2410129 |
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Abstract
This study explores the negotiation of locational epistemic access during initial reference sequences through embodied mapping, a practice in which co-participants (re)construct geographical maps by using their bodies and the space around them in concert with talk. Like a physical map, an embodied map becomes a mutually available resource that can be scrutinized or amended and therefore constitutes a resource for managing intersubjectivity and addressing epistemic asymmetry. Although embodied maps are ephemeral and physically intangible, they are treated as perceptible by co-participants and are made amenable to correction through the practices of visualization. Embodied mapping in novice second language interaction is a sophisticated, jointly accomplished resource for constructing gesture utterance packages that bolsters participants’ limited linguistic resources. The data are in English and Japanese and originate from conversations video-recorded in a paired English as a Foreign Language (EFL) test setting.
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