Roth2004
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Roth2004 |
| Author(s) | Wolff-Michael Roth |
| Title | Perceptual gestalts in workplace communication |
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| Tag(s) | social interaction, referential practice, perceptual gestalts, workplace communication, affordances, turn-taking |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 36 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pages | 1037–1069 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2003.11.005 |
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Abstract
This paper contributes to an emerging body of work on the distributed nature of cognition in general and communication in particular. Whereas previous studies have begun to include body orientation and gestural deixis in their analysis of verbal communication, the world in which human agents are embodied is merely taken as ground over and about which the communication takes place. In this study, based on and in extension of my previous research in school science classrooms, I propose to include perceptual modalities for analyzing communication, which is therefore, consistent with recent work in situated cognition, understood as distributed across verbal, gestural and perceptual modalities. Detailed analyses of workplace situations are used to support the argument that the unit of analysis for pragmatic studies of communicative action at the workplace should account for all three rather than only one or two of these modalities.
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