Dressel2020
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Dressel2020 |
| Author(s) | Dennis Dressel |
| Title | Multimodal word searches in collaborative storytelling: On the local mobilization and negotiation of coparticipation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Word search, Collaborative storytelling, Shared knowledge, Embodied practice, Co-construction, Coparticipation |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 170 |
| Number | December 2020 |
| Pages | 37-54 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.08.010 |
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Abstract
This conversation-analytic paper investigates word searches in collaborative storytelling. Through detailed multimodal analysis of video recorded French conversations, in which couples jointly recount shared experiences, two recognizable participation formats are distinguished: in solitary searches, current tellers withdraw their gaze from their co-teller and display a preference for self-repair by means of verbal, vocal, and gestural resources. In joint searches, tellers mobilize their co-teller's assistance to different degrees. They signal an upcoming problem early in their turn and establish a framework for potential coparticipation even before the progressivity of the turn is halted. Gaze, especially mutual gaze, is found to be the strongest mobilization device, while pragmatic and depictive gestures facilitate consociate turn entry. Turn-constructional features, particularly the production format and semanto-syntactic projection of the turn-in-progress, are shown to either delimit coparticipation (i.e., searches for a precise or delicate item) or invite open-ended co-tellership (i.e., open searches). In addition to a number of clear-cut cases, the analysis of a more complex case shows that current tellers can shift participation as a search is in progress.
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