Nevile2007b
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| BibType | INPROCEEDINGS |
| Key | Nevile2007b |
| Author(s) | Maurice Nevile |
| Title | Seeing the point: attention and participation in the airline cockpit |
| Editor(s) | Lorenza Mondada, Vassiliki Markaki |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Aviation, Airline cockpit, Attention, Participation, Pointing |
| Publisher | ENS LSH & ICAR Research Lab |
| Year | 2007 |
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| City | Lyon |
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| Book title | Interacting Bodies: Online Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies |
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Abstract
This paper studies pointing in naturally occurring interaction in a sociotechnical work setting : the airline cockpit. To conduct their work, airline pilots do not actually have to point to anything. However, pilots do routinely point to things. Pointing in the cockpit is a means for embodying varied forms of attention and participation. How a point is produced, and specifically where a point is produced in surrounding space relative to its target and to the other pilot's field of vision, can make a point more or less witnessable, and so make more or less visually salient its target's status as a source of visual evidence for a task-related action or event. Varying a point's witnessability allows pilots to vary the nature and immediacy for how a location in the cockpit should be attended for collaborative action for work. Some gesture researchers have suggested that systematic variations in the manner of pointing can relate to the kind of action being undertaken and the speaker's expectations of how what is said is to be dealt with by an interlocutor. This paper addresses this possibility from an interest in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis for uncovering the practices and processes of reasoning by which people accomplish social actions and produce the intelligible orderliness of everyday life, including the everyday life of institutions and workplaces. The paper adds to studies of gestures as embedded in practices and as occurring and made intelligible within spaces in a physical environment that participants organise, create and treat as relevant and meaningful for what they are doing.
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