I use the term the embodied turn to mean the point when interest in the body became
established among researchers on language and social interaction, exploiting the greater …

This paper offers a review of research on demonstratives from an interdisciplinary
perspective. In particular, we consider the role of demonstratives in current research on …

This article reflects on recent challenges emerging from the study of language and the body
in social interaction. There is a general interest in language and the body across disciplines …

Video provides unprecedented opportunities for social science research, enabling fine-
grained analysis of social organisation, culture and communication. Video in Qualitative …

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 …

Aprimordial site for the analysis of human language, cognition and action consists of a
situation in which multiple participants are attempting to carry out courses of action together …

This article attempts to align a familiar task of classroom teaching, eliciting from students
correct answers about their lessons, with a major organizational domain in studies of natural …

Service encounters are ubiquitous in social interaction. We buy food and everyday items in
supermarkets, convenience stores, or markets; we purchase merchandise in department …

This chapter will use videotapes of young archaeologists learning how to see and excavate
the traces of an ancient village in the soil they are digging to explore some of the ways in …

This article explores the interactional organization of collaborative work in the field of
anesthesia.“Anesthetic teams” provide a distinctive case for the analysis of collaborative …