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9Interactional Contingencies in Rehearsing a Theater Scene: The Consequentiality of Body Arrangements as Action UnfoldsHuman Studies 46 (2): 303-335. 2023.Based on video-recordings of several weeks of rehearsals of a Japanese theater piece played by French actors, and adopting an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective, this paper focuses on how the same few lines of a scene are subsequently enacted. In particular, it explores how the scene is played, not only in relation to the script but also to the situated moment-by-moment unfolding of embodied movements constituting the actions and achieving their detailed formatting and mea…Read more
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7Appealing to the senses: Approaching, sensing, and interacting at the market’s stallDiscourse and Communication 16 (2): 160-199. 2022.Sensorial access to products in shop encounters constitutes a crucial aspect of the appeal to customers. This paper examines sensorial engagements with products in a specific ecology with a focus on the possible opening of a shop encounter. When passers-by stroll from one stand to another, open to local findings, unplanned discoveries, and emergent opportunities to buy, they orient to the sensory appeal of the products, becoming possible customers, stopping in front of a counter and engaging in …Read more
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6Participants’ online analysis and multimodal practices: projecting the end of the turn and the closing of the sequenceDiscourse Studies 8 (1): 117-129. 2006.Studies of talk-and-bodily-conduct-in-interaction have inspired new insights into the way in which language, interaction and cognition might be articulated. More particularly, they have shown that participants mutually orient to the finely tuned multimodal details by which talk and action in interaction are sequentially organized. This article deals with this form of ‘participants’ multimodal online analysis’ by focusing on a particular phenomenon - the methodical practices and resources by whic…Read more
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14Commentary: transcript variations and the indexicality of transcribing practicesDiscourse Studies 9 (6): 809-821. 2007.In this commentary, I consider variability as an ordinary and irremediable feature related to the indexicality not only of transcripts but first of all of transcribing. In this sense, it is not just a characteristic of transcripts as texts, which can be assessed in a kind of philological comparison comparing formal features of autonomous and fixed textual objects, but a characteristic of transcribing as a situated practice. Practices are irremediably indexical, reflexively tied to the context of…Read more
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6Displaying, contesting and negotiating epistemic authority in social interaction: Descriptions and questions in guided visitsDiscourse Studies 15 (5): 597-626. 2013.This article contributes to ongoing studies in conversation analysis dealing with the way in which epistemic authority is displayed, claimed, contested and negotiated in social interaction. More particularly, it focuses on the articulation between action format, sequential organization, membership categorization and epistemic authority. The article offers an empirical analysis of the way in which knowledge is distributed and recognized in social gatherings, with a special focus on guided visits.…Read more
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11Instructions in the operating room: How the surgeon directs their assistant’s handsDiscourse Studies 16 (2): 131-161. 2014.This article deals with surgical practice as it is locally organized within the course of the operation; it focuses on the way in which surgical action shaping the body for the local purposes of the operation is organized in a timely, situated, interactive manner. In order to do that, I offer a systematic analysis of the instructions addressed by a chief surgeon to his assistant in the form of directives during a surgical operation, as well as of instructed actions of the assistant following the…Read more
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15Embodied orientations towards co-participants in multinational meetingsDiscourse Studies 14 (1): 31-52. 2012.The interactional organization of meetings is an important locus of observation for understanding the way in which institutions are talked into being. This article contributes to this growing body of research by focusing on turn-taking and participation in business meetings, approached within conversation analysis in a sequential and multimodal way. On the basis of a corpus of video-recorded corporate meetings of a multinational company, in which managers coming from several European branches co…Read more
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12Multimodal resources for turn-taking: pointing and the emergence of possible next speakersDiscourse Studies 9 (2): 194-225. 2007.The article investigates a multimodal practice for self-selecting observed in a video-taped corpus of work meetings: the use of pointing gestures predicting possible turn completions and projecting the emergence of possible next speakers. This practice is analyzed in various sequential positions, namely at turn beginnings and at pre-beginnings. It displays recipients' practical online turn parsing, and their orientation to transition spaces, and to TCU, completions in a visible, recognizable, pu…Read more
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13Doing paying during the Covid-19 pandemicDiscourse Studies 22 (6): 720-752. 2020.The Covid-19 pandemic has affected not only the health of populations but also their everyday social practices, transformed by orienting to risks of contagion and to health prevention discourses. This paper emanates from a project investigating the impact of Covid-19 on human sociality and more particularly the situated and embodied organization of social interactions. It discusses how Covid-19 impacts the design of ordinary actions in social interaction, how this is made publicly accountable by…Read more
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12The multimodal interactional organization of tasting: Practices of tasting cheese in gourmet shopsDiscourse Studies 20 (6): 743-769. 2018.Taste is a central sense for humans and animals, and it has been largely studied either from physiological and neurological approaches or from socio-cultural ones. This paper adopts another view, focused on the activity of tasting rather than on the sense of taste, approached within the perspective of ethnomethodology and multimodal conversation analysis. This view addresses the activity of tasting as it is interactionally organized in specific social settings, observed in a naturalistic way, on…Read more
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11Cet article présente le travail de constitution du Corpus International Écologique de la Langue Française (CIEL-F) et ses caractéristiques. Conçu pour mettre à disposition des corpus de données interactionnelles récoltées dans des contextes ordinaires, professionnels et institutionnels authentiques, et afin de promouvoir la recherche comparée sur le français parlé, le corpus CIEL-F comporte des enregistrements effectués en Algérie, Antilles françaises, Belgique, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Canada, C…Read more
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16The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.Each time we take a turn in conversation we indicate what we know and what we think others know. However, knowledge is neither static nor absolute. It is shaped by those we interact with and governed by social norms - we monitor one another for whether we are fulfilling our rights and responsibilities with respect to knowledge, and for who has relatively more rights to assert knowledge over some state of affairs. This book brings together an international team of leading linguists, sociologists …Read more
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27Video Recording Practices and the Reflexive Constitution of the Interactional Order: Some Systematic Uses of the Split-Screen TechniqueHuman Studies 32 (1): 67-99. 2009.In this paper, I deal with video data not as a transparent window on social interaction but as a situated product of video practices. This perspective invites an analysis of the practices of video-making, considering them as having a configuring impact on both on the way in which social interaction is documented and the way in which it is locally interpreted by video-makers. These situated interpretations and online analyses reflexively shape not only the record they produce but also the interac…Read more
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45Interaction and Everyday Life: Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Essays in Honor of George Psathas (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.Through a wide-ranging international collection of papers, this volume provides theoretical and historical insights into the development and application of phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology and offers detailed examples of research into social phenomena from these standpoints. All the articles in this volume join together to testify to the enormous efficacy and potential of both phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology
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14Becoming collective: The contsruction of the audience as an interactional processIn Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel (eds.), Making Things Public, Mit Press. pp. 876--883. 2005.
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23Ethics in Action: Anonymization as a Participant’s Concern and a Participant’s Practice (review)Human Studies 37 (2): 179-209. 2014.Ethical issues are often discussed in a normative, prescriptive, generic way, within methodological recommendations and ethical guidelines. Within social sciences dealing with social interaction, these ethical issues concern the approach of participants during fieldwork, the recordings of audio–video data, their transcription, and their analysis. This paper offers a respecification of these issues by addressing them in a double perspective: as a topic for research—and not just as a methodologica…Read more