Objects, Bodies and Work Practice
Johannes Wagner editor Dennis Day editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Multilingual Matters
Published:15th Jul '19
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Chapters investigate the role material objects play in the in-situ, embodied and spatial circumstances of interaction
In this volume, contributors focus on how professionals organize their embodied conduct with material objects. The book concentrates specifically on connections between ongoing courses of interaction within work practices, object materiality and mobility in space, bodily movement and manipulation of objects, and language.
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.
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.
* Jürgen 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(ISBN: 9781788924528
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
Weight: 635g
328 pages