Mazeland2019
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Mazeland2019 |
| Author(s) | Harrie Mazeland |
| Title | Activities as discrete organizational domains |
| Editor(s) | Elisabeth Reber, Cornelia Gerhardt |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Activities |
| Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
| Year | 2019 |
| Language | English |
| City | Cham |
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| Pages | 29–61 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-97325-8_2 |
| ISBN | 9783319973241 |
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| Book title | Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings: Social Encounters in Time and Space |
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Abstract
Activities in human interaction are shaped as discrete organizational domains. Interactants delimit an activity from surrounding courses of action and use activity-specific practices through which they manage the interaction as specifically that type of activity. After an analysis of two different forms of organising activities that unfold primarily in and through talk, a comparison is made with an activity that develops as the coordinated performance of a practical task. Participants take the activity-context into consideration when making sense of a turn at talk. The setting of routine activities may be usefully conceptualised as a situated activity system. The notion provides a framework to consider the interplay of the semiotic resources participants rely on relative to the activity in which they are used.
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