| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Language at work ; 3 |
| Contents |
Introduction: Objects, bodies and work practice / Dennis Day and Johannes Wagner -- Transcription Conventions -- Part I: The Role of Objects for the Progressivity of Action: 1. Objects of Agreement -- Placing Pins to Progress: Collaborative Activity in Custom Dressmaking / Maurice Nevile -- 2. Workplace Asymmetries and Object: Passing in Hair Salons / Anne-Sylvie Horlacher -- 3. Informing and Demonstrating: Manipulating Objects and Patients? Participation in Shared-Decision-Making / Chiara M. Monzoni, Basil Sharrack, Markus Reuber -- Part II: Spatial Aspects of Objects in Interaction: 4. Interactional Consequences of Object Possession in Institutional Practices / Dennis Day and Gitte Rasmussen -- 5. Ordering and Serving Coffee in an Italian Cafe: How Customers Obtain 'Their' Coffee / Elwys De Stefani -- Part III: Objects in the Service of Preparing for a Possible Future: 6. Dropping Off or Picking Up?: Professionals' Use of Objects as a Resource for Determining the Purpose of a Customer Encounter / Trine Heinemann and Barbara Fox -- 7. Objects in Motion: 'I'm Just Behind You' and Other Warnings in Forklift Truck Driving / Maurice Nevile and Johannes Wagner -- Part IV: Objects as Interactional Accomplishments: 8. Adjusting or Verbalizing Visuals in ICT Mediated Professional Encounters / Mie Femø Nielsen -- 9. Designedly Incomplete Objects as Elicitation Tools in Classroom Interaction / Spencer Hazel and Kristian Mortensen -- 10. Olfactory Objects: Recognizing, Describing, and Assessing Smells During Professional Tasting Sessions / Giolo Fele -- Postscript: Thing and Space / Aug Nishizaka |
| Summary |
What role do material objects play in the in-situ, embodied and spatial circumstances of interaction? How do people organize their embodied conduct with regard to such objects, and how is this consequential in and for their work practices? In this volume, contributors focus on these questions in terms of connections between ongoing courses of interaction within work practices, object materiality and mobility in space, bodily movement and manipulation of objects, and language. The chapters in this book address a broad range of settings and actions (including dressmaking, foreign language teaching, international business meetings and forklift driving) where a variety of objects become relevant |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Nonverbal communication -- Case studies
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Body language -- Case studies
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Psycholinguistics -- Case studies
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Material culture.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
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Body language
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Nonverbal communication
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Psycholinguistics
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Day, Dennis, 1956- editor.
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Wagner, Johannes (Professor of communication), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781788924535 |
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1788924533 |
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