Multimodal performance and interaction in focus groups / Kristin Enola Gilbert, Gregory Matoesian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Kristin Enola, author.

Matoesian, Gregory M., author.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 90.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community policing--United States--Evaluation.

Community policing.

Police-community relations--United States.

Police-community relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However, there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving beyond a narrow preoccupation with topic talk, Gilbert and Matoesian take a novel direction to focus group analysis. They address how multimodal resources - the integration of speech, gesture, gaze, and posture - orchestrate communal relations and professional identities, linking macro orders of space-time to microcosmic action in a focus group evaluation of community policing training. They conceptualize assessment as an evaluation ritual, a sociocultural reaffirmation of collective identity and symbolic maintenance of professional boundary enacted in aesthetically patterned oratory. In the wake of social unrest and citizen disillusionment with policing practice, Gilbert and Matoesian argue that processes of multimodal interaction provide a critical direction for focus group evaluation of police reforms. Their book will be of interest to researchers who study focus group interviews, gesture, language and culture, and policing reform"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Focus groups : a multimodal approach

They thought we were a hick town

We're doin this here now

Struck by speech

Interactional positioning

Poetic positioning and multimodal hypotheticals

When the dust cleared up

We have four hundred and seventy six neighborhood watches.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027260208

9027260206