Nanbu2024

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Nanbu2024
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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