Objects, Bodies and Work Practice / Dennis Day, Johannes Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, Dennis, Editor.

Wagner, Johannes, Editor.

Series:

Language at work ; 3.

Language at Work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonverbal communication--Case studies.

Nonverbal communication.

Body language--Case studies.

Body language.

Psycholinguistics--Case studies.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages).

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Objects, Bodies and Work Practice: An Introduction

Transcription Conventions

1. Objects of Agreement: Placing Pins to Progress Collaborative Activity in Custom Dressmaking

2. Workplace Asymmetries and Object-passing in Hair Salons

3. Informing and Demonstrating: Manipulating Objects and Patients’ Participation in Shared Decision Making

4. Interactional Consequences of Object Possession in Institutional Practices

5. Ordering and Serving Coffee in an Italian Café: How Customers Obtain ‘Their’ Coffee

6. Dropping Off or Picking Up? Professionals’ Use of Objects as a Resource for Determining the Purpose of a Customer Encounter

7. Objects in Motion: ‘I’m Just Behind You’ and Other Warnings in Forklift Truck Driving

8. Adjusting or Verbalizing Visuals in ICT-mediated Professional Encounters

9. Designedly Incomplete Objects as Elicitation Tools in Classroom Interaction

10. Olfactory Objects: Recognizing, Describing and Assessing Smells during Professional Tasting Sessions

Postscript: Thing and Space

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781788924542

1788924541

9781788924535

1788924533

OCLC:

1107493598