TuncerLicoppeHaddington2019
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | TuncerLicoppeHaddington2019 |
| Author(s) | Sylvaine Tuncer, Christian Licoppe and Pentti Haddington |
| Title | When objects become the focus of human action and activity: Object-centred sequences in social interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Gesprächsforschung: Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion |
| Volume | 20 |
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| Pages | 384-398 |
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Abstract
This special issue originates in a series of data sessions where our attention was drawn to intriguing phenomena of joint orientation to, manipulations of, and talk about objects. Considering emerging directions in the field of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA), ‘object-centred sequences’ seemed a relevant analytical issue and conceptual problem in its own right. We, then future co-editors, convened a panel at the International Pragmatics Association Conference (IPrA) in Belfast in July 2017. The panel presenters’ enthusiasm towards the theme, and the rich range of analytic observations around it, have now come to fruition in the form of this special issue. Throughout the process, our goal has been to provide empirical, systematic and detailed studies of ‘object-centred sequences’ so that it can become a shared and established concept for future research. In the following editorial, we first delineate related research areas and topics to demonstrate the relevance of this agenda. We bring together advances in research on embodied interactions in the material world, and address the progressive emergence of the notion itself. Then, we describe the main features of what could be defined as an ‘object-centred sequence’, and its bearing on studies on social interactions and practices. Lastly, we introduce the six contributions to this special issue, hoping in all to have demonstrated that and how they advance the themes and issues which have recently emerged in EMCA, video-based research, and beyond.
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