Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other. This book examines language use and social interaction through the lens of complexity, focusing on how participants establish and maintain shared understanding in multi-layered situations and settings. This book will find readership among students and scholars who use video-based methods and are interested in interaction, intersubjectivity and multimodality.
Chapter
1. On the complexities of interaction: An introduction (Tiina
Eilittä, Pentti Haddington, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Iira Rautiainen
and Anna Vatanen).- Part I: Complexity that resides in multiactivity
multisensoriality.
Chapter
2. Tasting vs. eating: The methodic and situated
differentiation of embodied multisensorial activities in social interaction
(Lorenza Mondada).
Chapter
3. Metagaming and multiactivity: How board gamer
players deal with progressivity (Emily Hofstetter and Jessica Robles).-
Chapter
4. Embodied noticings as repair initiations: On multiactivity in
choir rehearsals (Anna Vatanen).- Part II: Complexity that resides in
asymmetries related to affordances, resources and roles.
Chapter
5.
Intersubjective interaction during the word explanation activity in social
virtual reality (Heidi Spets).
Chapter
6. Building on linguistically
exclusive talk: Access, participation and progressivity in a multinational
military staff (Antti Kamunen and Pentti Haddington).
Chapter
7. Nudging
questions as devices for prompting courses of action and negotiating deontic
(a)symmetry in UN Military Observer training (Iira Rautiainen, Pentti
Haddington and Antti Kamunen).- Part III: Complexity that resides in the
coordination of participation frameworks.
Chapter
8. Playing together on a
large screen: Spatiality, materiality, temporality and the complexity of
interaction (Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre and Biagio Ursi).
Chapter
9. Getting
(others) involved with smartphones: Participation in showing sequences in
multi-party settings (Iuliia Avgustis and Florence Oloff).
Chapter
10. The
primacy of affective engagement in simultaneously unfolding participation
frameworks (Julia Katila, Yumei Gan, Sara Goico and Marjorie Goodwin).- Part
IV: Complexity that resides in the characteristics of interactional settings
and environments.
Chapter
11. Ambulatory openings (Elliot M. Hoey).
Chapter
12. Openings of interactions in immersive virtual reality: Identifyingand
recognising prospective co-participants (Pentti Haddington, Laura
Kohonen-Aho, Sylvaine Tuncer and Heidi Spets).
Chapter
13. Transitions
between interactional spaces: Working towards shared understanding in a
hybrid workshop setting (Laura Kohonen-Aho).
Pentti Haddington is Professor of English language and interaction at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Tiina Eilittä is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Antti Kamunen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Laura Kohonen-Aho is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Iira Rautiainen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Anna Vatanen is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and also affiliated with the University of Oulu, Finland.
The editors form a team that has worked together on complexity of interaction for several years in the projects iTask: Linguistic and embodied features of interactional multitasking and PeaceTalk: Talk and interaction in multinational crisis management training funded by the Academy of Finland and Eudaimonia Institute at the University of Oulu, Finland.