Multiactivity in social interaction : beyond multitasking / edited by Pentti Haddington [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haddington, Pentti, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication models.

Social interaction.

Symbolic interactionism.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper analyses paramedic emergency interaction as multi-modal multi-activity. Based on a corpus of video-recordings of emergency drills performed by professional paramedics during advanced training, the focus is on paramedics' participation in multiple joint projects which become simultaneously relevant. Simultaneity and fast succession of multi-activity does not only characterise work on the team level, but also the work profile of the individual paramedic. Participants have to coordinate their own participation in more than one joint project intra-personally. In the data studied, three patterns of allocating multi-modal resources stood out as routine ways of coordinating participation in two simultaneous projects intra-personally: 1. Talk and hearing vs. manual action monitored by gaze, 2. Talk and hearing vs. gazing (and pointing), 3. Manual action vs. gaze (and talk and hearing).

Contents:

Multiactivity in Social Interaction

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Part 1. Introduction

Towards multiactivity as a social and interactional phenomenon

An overview

From multitasking to multiactivity: Not just cognition but also sociality

Cognitive perspectives: Individual multitasking

Sociological perspectives of multitasking

Applied issues: Normative and prescriptive visions

Transition: Rethinking multitasking as multiactivity

Situated practices in real time: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis

Novel issues in the study of interactional multiactivity

Existing EMCA literature and contributions of this book

Towards an emic view of multiactivity

The organisation of multiactivity: Simultaneity, sequentiality, seriality, and the temporal ordering

Practices for organising multiactivity

Conclusions

References

The temporal orders of multiactivity: Operating and demonstrating in the surgical theatre

Introduction

Data

Temporal dimensions of multiactivity

Time in interaction

Multiple related and interfering temporalities

Three temporal orders

Parallel order

Embedded orders: Integrated and hierarchised actions

Micro-adjustments: Perturbations, hitches, slowdowns

Successive alternations within turns

Successive alternations within the sequence

Suspensions and resumptions

Abandonments

Exclusive order

Operating in silence

talking without operating

Forbidding to ask questions

Talking too much

Conclusion: Dynamic temporalities

Appendix

Part 2. The organisation of multiactivity

Sustained orientation to one activity in multiactivity during prenatal ultrasound examinations

Participation frameworks and multimodal resources for activities

Initiation of additional activities.

Transitory phases

Sustained orientation to the on-going ultrasound examination

Termination of additional activities

Interruption of the ultrasound examination

The temporary nature of the interruption

Restoration through the optimised distribution of orientations

Conclusion

Suspending action: From simultaneous to consecutive ordering of multiple courses of action

Progressivity in reference to multiactivity and suspension

Moments of multiactivity: Securing progressivity with suspension turns

Local contingencies of suspension in multiactivity moments

Incompatible bodily involvements

Incompatibility in the timing of actions

Consequences of the practice

Part 3. Interruption and resumption of activities in multiactivity situations

Negotiating favourable conditions for resuming suspended activities

Data and methods

The coordination of linguistic and embodied resources for accomplishing resumption in multiactivity

Example 1: Participants' multimodal orientations in negotiating a return to work on the laptop

Example 2: Navigating conflicting involvements and negotiating a return to game-playing

Summary of the findings

Conclusions: Resumptions and managing multiples

Attending to a summons and putting other activities 'on hold'

Research material and data collection

Attending to the doorbell during a Skype video call at home

Managing an incoming phone call in the office while discussing current tasks with a colleague

Managing an incoming phone call while on the air

Discussion

Constituting an audible occurrence as a relevant event

The production of recognisable multiactivity episodes as a members' joint concern.

Concluding remarks: Towards an anthropology of multiactivity

Managing multiactivity in a travel agency: Making phone calls while interacting with customers

Talk and action in technological environments

Data and method

Initiating phone calls while interacting with a customer

Transitions to outgoing phone calls

Transitions to incoming phone calls

Ending phone calls: Momentary and final resumptions of the main interaction

Momentary resumptions

Final resumptions

Part 4. Multiple involvements and participation frameworks

A body and its involvements: Adjusting action for dual involvements

Preserving the progressivity of intersecting courses of action

Suspending an ongoing course of action as a resource in pursuing another course of action

Retarding an ongoing course of action over another (expanding) course of action

Concluding remarks

Multimodal participation in simultaneous joint projects

The corpus

Theoretical background

Interpersonal coordination of multiple joint projects on the team level

Phase 1: OCH announces to PAT that the collar will be attached to his neck while collar is prepared

Phase 2: OCH adjusts collar while PAT complains and assistants impart vital parameters

Phase 3: OCH suspends adjustment of collar to check measures and requests pulse oxymetre

Phase 4: OCH attaches the cervical collar

Intrapersonal coordination of simultaneous participation in two joint projects

Talk and hearing vs. manual action monitored by gaze

Talk and hearing vs. gazing (and pointing)

Manual action vs. gaze (and talk and hearing)

Conclusion and discussion

Person index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269805

9027269807

OCLC:

889675371