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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• MitwirkendeR: Day, Dennis,; De Stefani, Elwys,; Fele, Giolo,; Fox, Barbara,; Hazel, Spencer,; Heinemann, Trine,; Horlacher, Anne-Sylvie,; Monzoni, Chiara M.,; Mortensen, Kristian,; Nevile, Maurice,; Nielsen, Mie Femø,; Nishizaka, Aug,; Rasmussen, Gitte,; Reuber, Markus,; Sharrack, Basil,; Wagner, Johannes,
• HerausgeberIn: Day, Dennis,; Wagner, Johannes,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Language at Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Objects, Bodies and Work Practice: An Introduction -- Transcription Conventions -- Part 1: The Role of Objects for the Progressivity of Action -- 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 -- Part 2: Spatial Aspects of Objects in Interaction -- 4. Interactional Consequences of Object Possession in Institutional Practices -- 5. Ordering and Serving Coffee in an Italian Café: How Customers Obtain 'Their' Coffee -- Part 3: Objects in the Service of Preparing for a Possible Future -- 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 -- Part 4: Objects as Interactional Accomplishments -- 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