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Index
Interacting with Objects
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Overview
Objects in the social world
Researching social interaction: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
Observable conduct and displayed understandings
Embodiment and materiality: Resources for interaction
Early contributions to the study of materiality and social interaction
Contributions of this book: A focus on objects
Conclusion: The interactional ecology of objects
References
Part A. Objects as situated resources
Organising and sequencing
The order of ordering: Objects, requests and embodied conduct in a public bar
Introduction
Objects and the organisation of service encounters
The data and analytic approach
Analysis
The cash till as a mobilised object
‘What table are you on?’
‘Do you know your table number?’
‘Where in the whereabouts’: Embodied responses mobilising the environment
Tables and tills
Concluding remarks
References
Initiating activity shifts through use of appraisal forms as material objects
Introduction
Written documents as material objects in institutional encounters
Toward a multimodal activity shift
Data and method
The multiple means of the initiation
The appraisal form in multimodal negotiation
Conclusions
References
Making computer use relevant while patients present their proble
Introduction
Computer use during history-taking side sequences
Data and initial classifications
Computer use and activity-progression
From patient- to computer-centredness
Computer-centredness during history-taking side sequences
Conclusion
References
Participating and involving
Objects as tools for talk
Introduction
Data
Setting 1: The re-design of a backhoe loader
Setting 2: The case of the massage stick
Analysis
Participation framework and communal objects
The use of material objects to prepare a turn beginning
Competing for a turn at talk with objects
Competing for an object with a turn at talk
Conclusion
References
Photo sharing as a joint activity between an aphasic speaker and others
Introduction
Multimodal conversation analysis, repairs and aphasia
Data and methods
Analysis and results
Conclusion
Implications
References
Organising the soundscape: Participants’ orientation to impending sound
Introduction
Data
Turning on auditory objects
Initiating a sequence involving an auditory object
Negotiating the turning on of an auditory object
Turning on as interruptive and accountable
Conclusion
References
Cultivating objects in interaction: Visual motifs as meaning making practices
Introduction
Data and method
Introduction to the phenomenon
Analysis: Sequence 1 - single, local recurrences
Procuring the scholarship
Allocating the scholarship
Using the scholarship
Closing the circle
Analysis: Sequence 2 - A collaboratively occasioned visual leitmotif
Initial mapping of the timeframe
Uptake and development of the timeframe motif
Visual leitmotifs developed over larger sequences
Discussion
References
Part B. Objects as practical accomplishments
Shaping and creating
Cooking instructions and the shaping of things in the kitchen
Introduction
Manipulating and shaping objects in instructions
Data
Demonstrably manipulating objects: Chef’s instructions
Delaying objects’ transformations: Trainees’ questions following instructions
Shaping objects: The situated work of following instructions in instructed actions
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Transcription conventions
References
To follow the materials: The detection, diagnosis and correction of mistakes in craft education
Introduction
The empirical case
Analysis
Detecting and diagnosing a problem
Solving problems and correcting mistakes
Conclusion
References
-Having a ball: Immaterial objects in dance instruction
Introduction
The data
Hands-on accomplishment of an immaterial object
A throwing gesture
Manipulating an object into existence
Discussion: Interactional properties and functions of immaterial objects
Conclusion
References
Experiencing and identifying
Establishing joint orientation towards commercial objects in a self-service store
Introduction
Goods, products, objects
Objects as resources for spatial orientation
Establishing a joint focus of attention
Initiating a change in orientation
Locating and discovering objects
Categorising objects
Layered object categories
Beyond “adequate” descriptions
Talked-about objects
Final considerations
References
Appendix
Artworks as touchable objects: Guiding perception in a museum tour for blind people
Introduction - Investigating a particular kind of object: Artworks
Artworks as aesthetic objects
Artworks’ affordances: Thinking on the connection between object, perception and action
From action to interaction: Artworks as interactional objects
Touching artworks as an aesthetic experience
Data and setting
Analysis: Artworks as tangible ‘experience-ables’
Formulating artworks
Manipulation as aesthetic experience
Conclusion
Transcription conventions
Acknowledgements
References
Incidental and essential objects in interaction: Paper documents in journalistic work
Introduction
Setting and data collection
Paper documents in interaction at TV4
Paper documents in support of negotiating access in the field
Paper documents in the management of meeting talk
Paper documents as a resource in the delegation of work
Discussion
References
Envisioning the plan in interaction: Configuring pipes during a plumbers’ meeting
Introduction
Method, data and key concepts
Meeting as an organisational hub setting
Reworking plumbing design
Activating the document
Rendering an idea with graphical representations
Embodying the configuration of three dimensional objects
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Instructed objects
Orders of specification, documentary evidences and the constitution of objects
Analysis
The setting
A noticing in progress
An instructed examination
Negotiating the upshot
The identity of objects and methods
References
Epilogue
Trajectories of the object in interaction
Reference and the relations between language and world
Ontological dimensions of interaction
Material and immaterial objects in language and action
References
Person index
Subject index
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