
Objects, Bodies and Work Practice
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This multidisciplinary collection, from respected and experienced researchers, not only extends prior work on social interaction but constitutes a critique of past research that has programmatically ignored the materiality that research subjects use or make relevant in the course of their activity. * Curtis LeBaron, Brigham Young University, USA * Reading this collection may change how you take your shoes back for repair and it will certainly, if you are researching interaction, bring objects to the centre of your attention. Across a stimulating array of settings it charts objects' place in progressing, spatialising and designing actions, and being the achievement of actions themselves. * Eric Laurier, University of Edinburgh, UK * Nothing shows more vividly than this book how much the study of communication has changed: the production of meaning and the making of the material world are now understood to be intricately intertwined at every moment, and that intertwining has become the focus of rigorous and systematic research. * Juergen Streeck, The University of Texas at Austin, USA * Through a systematic and detailed examination of objects' categorical and sequential consequences for actions and interactions, this volume will interest researchers and practitioners in language and social interaction, communication and discourse and related disciplines. -- Zeng Xiaorong and Chen Zeyuan, Jiangxi Agricultural University, China * Discourse Studies 22(3) *More details
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Johannes Wagner is a Professor in the Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark. In recent years he has been working on a comprehensive understanding of human social praxis as the nexus of verbal interaction, embodied practices and tangible objects in the environment.
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Part 1: The Role of Objects for the Progressivity of Action
Chapter 1. Maurice Nevile: Objects of Agreement - Placing Pins to Progress Collaborative Activity in Custom Dressmaking
Chapter 2. Anne-Sylvie Horlacher: Workplace Asymmetries and Object-Passing in Hair Salons
Chapter 3. Chiara M. Monzoni, Basil Sharrack, Markus Reuber: Informing and Demonstrating: Manipulating Objects and Patients' Participation in Shared-Decision-Making
Part 2: Spatial Aspects of Objects in Interaction
Chapter 4. Dennis Day and Gitte Rasmussen: Interactional Consequences of Object Possession in Institutional Practices
Chapter 5. Elwys De Stefani: Ordering and Serving Coffee in an Italian Cafe: How Customers Obtain 'Their' Coffee
Part 3: Objects in the Service of Preparing for a Possible Future
Chapter 6. Trine Heinemann and Barbara Fox: Dropping Off or Picking Up?: Professionals' Use of Objects as a Resource for Determining the Purpose of a Customer Encounter.
Chapter 7. Maurice Nevile and Johannes Wagner: Objects in Motion: 'I'm Just Behind You' and Other Warnings in Forklift Truck Driving
Part 4: Objects as Interactional Accomplishments
Chapter 8. Mie Femo Nielsen: Adjusting or Verbalizing Visuals in ICT Mediated Professional Encounters
Chapter 9. Spencer Hazel and Kristian Mortensen: Designedly Incomplete Objects as Elicitation Tools in Classroom Interaction
Chapter 10. Giolo Fele: Olfactory Objects. Recognizing, Describing, and Assessing Smells During Professional Tasting Sessions
Postscript. Aug Nishizaka: Thing and Space
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