Intersubjectivity in Action

Intersubjectivity in Action
Table of contents
Intersubjectivity in action - An introduction (Sorjonen et al.)
1. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
2. Moving towards shared understanding
3. Bodies and intersubjectivity
4. Evolving intersubjectivity
Acknowledgements
References
I. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
Organizing the “we” in interaction (Etelämäki)
1. Introduction
2. The analysis
3. What happens in this sequence of talk?
4. Intersubjectivity in interaction
References
Definitely indefinite - Negotiating intersubjective common ground in everyday interaction in Finnish (Laury)
1. Introduction
2. Background on referring and the use of referential forms in interaction
3. Data and methodology
4. Definite indefinites in Finnish conversation
4.1 Se yks in negotiations of epistemic access
4.2 Se semmonen in category negotiations
4.3 Se joku in mentions of unimportant referents
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Directive turn design and intersubjectivity (Couper-Kuhlen et al.)
1. Introduction
2. Directive turns with imperatives
3. Directive turns with zero-person+modal constructions
4. Directive sequences with both imperatives and zero-person+modal constructions
5. Discussion and conclusion
References
On agency and affiliationin second assessments - German and Swedish opinion verbsin talk-in-interaction (Auer & Lindström)
1. Introduction
2. Agency and affiliation
3. Dealing with weak agency: Assessing in group interviews
4. Agency, alignment and sequence structure in agreeing second assessments
4.1 Sequence closure: Low agency
4.2 Sequence closure: High(er) agency and low affiliation
4.3 Sequence expansion: High(er) agency and no evaluative downgrading
5. Disagreeing second assessments
6. Conclusion
References
Mirror-like address practice in Arabic-medium classroom interaction - Managing social relations and intersubjectivity (Piippo)
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Address inversion in interaction
2.2 Intersubjectivity in semiotic encounters
3. Data
4. Address inversion in classroom interaction
4.1 Address inversion in initial action
4.2 Address inversion in responsive actions
5. Conclusion and discussion
Note of acknowledgement
References
Brokering co-participants' volition in request and offer sequences (Harjunpää)
1. Introduction
2. Wanting something: Volition in the transfer of objects and services
3. Three types of brokering
3.1 Brokering prior action as a request
3.2 Brokering prior action as an offer
3.3 Somewhere between requests and offers
4. Concluding remarks
References
Appendix 1. Multimodal transcription conventions
II. Moving towards shared understanding
Decision-making in salesperson–customer interaction - Establishing a common ground for obtaining commitment (Niemi et al.)
1. Introduction
2. Decision-making in business-to-business selling
3. Data
4. The stepwise construction of customer’s commitment
4.1 Determining the customer need and a potential solution
4.2 Collaborative achievement of an advancement in the business relationship
5. Summary and conclusions
References
Building an intersubjective understanding of the patient’s mental suffering (Weiste)
1. Introduction
2. Dealing with mental suffering in psychiatry
3. Patient’s descriptions of mental suffering
4. Responding to patient’s expressions of suffering
5. Discussion
References
Shared understandings of the human–nature relationship in encounters with small wildlife (Rauniomaa et al.)
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. Analysis
3.1 Displaying shared understandings
3.2 Setting an example and guiding others to achieve a shared understanding
3.3 Guiding and instructing others to pursue a shared understanding
4. Conclusion
References
Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish conversation (Haakana et al.)
1. Introduction
2. When extensions are rare: Candidate understandings and open class initiators
3. When extensions are more frequent: (Partial) repetitions of trouble turn and repetitions with question words
4. Discussion
References
Co-presence during lapses - On "comfortable silences" in Finnish (Vatanen)
1. Introduction: Co-presence and social situations
2. Empirical background: Lapses as silent moments in interaction
3. Data and methodology
4. On ways to orient to lapses: Towards the “comfortable” silence
5. On the reciprocity of orientations: Negotiating understandings of the lapse
6. Concluding remarks: On co-presence and its intersubjective transformation
References
III. Bodies and intersubjectivity
Achieving the intersubjectivity of sensorial practices - Body, language, and the senses in tasting activities (Mondada)
1. Introduction
2. From individual experiences to public evidences of sensorial qualities: Sharing sensations
2.1 The evidence of ‘smoke’ (Group 1)
2.2 The evidence of ‘smoky’ (Group 2)
3. Searching for what it tastes: Building intersubjectivity
3.1 Searching for taste: From the glass to the aroma wheel
3.2 Finding taste descriptors: Overhearing from one table to another
4. Conclusion
Transcription conventions
References
Emotion, psychophysiology, and intersubjectivity (Peräkylä)
1. Introduction
2. Sharing the emotional load in storytelling
3. Physiology of affiliation and dominance in Asperger’s syndrome
4. Physiology, affiliation and challenge in psychotherapy
5. Discussion
References
Movement synchrony as a topic of empirical social interaction research (Stevanovic & Himberg)
1. Introduction
2. Movement synchrony as a (sequential) contextual phenomenon
3. An empirical case: Synchronization of body movement during joint decision-making
3.1 Data and method
3.1.1 Participants
3.1.2 Measurements
3.1.3 Procedure
3.1.4 Data processing
3.2 Results
3.3 Discussion of the results
4. How should one account for the interactional functions of movement synchrony?
References
Evolving intersubjectivity
Learning to request in interaction - Intersubjective development of children's requesting between one and five years (Laakso)
1. Requesting as social action
2. Development of language and requests in childhood
3. Data and procedure
4. Interactional development of requesting between one and five years of age
4.1 Intersubjective understanding of embodied requests
4.1.1 Shared agency in co-constructing embodied requests
4.1.2 Declined embodied request: Child displays dissatisfaction
4.1.3 Intersubjective development of embodied requests
4.2 Interactional development of emerging verbal requests
4.2.1 Caregiver co-constructs early word-gesture combinations
4.2.2 Imperative forms in requesting
4.3 Learning linguistic sophistication of requests in peer interaction
5. Conclusion and discussion
References
How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal - Constructing coherence by recycling (Savijärvi & Ihalainen)
1. Introduction
2. Data and method
3. Analysis
3.1 Preceding scene: Getting going and getting stuck
3.2 Moving on to improvisation and constructing coherence
3.3 Orchestrating with embodiments
3.4 Reflecting on the scene
4. Discussion
References
Interactional reciprocity in human–dog interaction (Simonen & Lohi)
1. Introduction
1.1 The Still-Face Paradigm
1.2 The Strange Situation Paradigm
2. The setting and methods
3. Research questions
4. Analysis
4.1 The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever and the passive owner
4.1.1 The dog sets a new project
4.1.2 The dog requests help from the owner and others
4.1.3 Once contact is restored, the dog engages in play
4.2 The Saluki and its passive owner
4.3 Summary of the analysis
5. Conclusion
References
Transcription conventions and glossing symbols
1. Conventions for multimodal, multi-linear transcripts
2. Conventions for transcription of talk and other sound-related features
3. Glossing of talk for English-language readers
References
Index