Achieving Preallocation: Turn Transition Practices in Board Games

Hofstetter, Emily

doi:10.1080/0163853x.2020.1816401

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“…Adjusting the pile after each turn, before the next game move is made, is a practice the players established earlier, working as a closing device. So this gesture embodies an orientation to letting the game progress, as opposed to halting it and disallowing Daniel's move (see also Hofstetter 2021).…”

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Rule Talk: Instructing Proper Play With Impersonal Deontic Statements

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The present paper explores how rules are enforced and talked about in everyday life. Drawing on a corpus of board game recordings across European languages, we identify a sequential and praxeological context for rule talk. After a game rule is breached, a participant enforces proper play and then formulates a rule with an impersonal deontic statement (e.g. “It’s not allowed to do this”). Impersonal deontic statements express what may or may not be done without tying the obligation to a particular individual. Our analysis shows that such statements are used as part of multi-unit and multi-modal turns where rule talk is accomplished through both grammatical and embodied means. Impersonal deontic statements serve multiple interactional goals: they account for having changed another’s behavior in the moment and at the same time impart knowledge for the future. We refer to this complex action as an “instruction.” The results of this study advance our understanding of rules and rule-following in everyday life, and of how resources of language and the body are combined to enforce and formulate rules.

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Rule Talk: Instructing Proper Play With Impersonal Deontic Statements

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“…is carried out (Keevallik 2001;Keisanen et al, 2014) or they may be indexed by gaze and bodily orientations (Hofstetter, 2020b(Hofstetter, , 2021Ticca, 2014).…”

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Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

Löfgren

2023

Studies in Language and Culture

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This thesis investigates how participants in 20 hours of video-recorded scenic opera rehearsals make use of depictions (Clark, 2016), a communicative strategy based on iconicity, to create performance bodies, i.e. what the performers should do on stage to music. The method is grounded in ethnomethodologically informed conversation analysis and interactional linguistics (EMCAIL). The thesis aims to reveal how participants in opera rehearsals construct and respond to depictions, what interactional and semiotic functions depictions carry, and the nature of the relationship between depictions and descriptions, and in extension between language and the body in social interaction.The thesis comprises three individual articles. Article I focuses on how performers and the director deploy depictions in proposals of performance bodies. It is argued that depictions reference both themselves as the current state of the artwork, and prototypes of mundane behaviour (distal scenes). The article compares the self-referentiality, or introversive semiosis, of depictions with how interactional practices in general develop over time. Article II focuses specifically on how performers make proposals with depictions. The article concludes that depictions are multimodal gestalts whose interpersonal coordination reflects the distribution of deontic rights during the rehearsals in a visuospatial way, beyond the adjacency pair. Article III focuses on changes in turn design, and the relative deployment of depictions and descriptions, over joint decision-making micro-histories. It is shown how proposals move from descriptive to increasingly depictive states as the participants assure that there is displayed epistemic access to, and alignment and agreement with, the proposed performance bodies. The use of language early in the process secures conditionally relevant responses to the proposed ideas and thereby successful outcomes of proposals. The article reveals the essentially joint nature of the decision-making process on performance bodies.The thesis uncovers the temporally heterogenous nature of depictions. They are achieved in stepwise manners: both in terms of their moment-by-moment realization in turns, and in terms of their development over interactional histories. They are dialogically achieved both in the local and historical sense: their successful realization is dependent on cooperation from co-present participants who are also intrinsically involved in their development over time. Further, it is argued that depictions are both an interactional practice for creating opera performances and the very same performances at their current states. The thesis contributes to a holistic and integrated view of social interaction where no resources, whether traditionally conceived of as linguistic or not, are considered more important than others for the local constitution of social action.

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“…It is a structured activity that is organised around a game and its rules and therefore differs from everyday family interaction, for example. Achieving gameplay requires the participants to actively organise and coordinate their actions (Hofstetter, 2021). Social VR offers a new platform for examining gameplay as an interactional activity.…”

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Environmentally coupled gestures as a communicative resource in the word explanation activity: A multimodal analysis of interaction in social VR

Spets

2023

prlg

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This article contributes to our understanding of how participants use different resources to accomplish word explanations in social virtual reality (VR). The article draws on conversation analysis to examine audio-visual data of interaction on the Rec Room VR platform. A view of the physical space the participants inhabit has also been captured. There are twelve participants, and they have minimal experience with social VR. English is used as a lingua franca. The focus is on participants’ use of environmentally coupled gestures (EnCGs) during word explanation activity. The activity has two or more participants playing a word-guessing game, in which one participant explains a word using drawings and gesture as well as speech. Findings show that EnCGs that feature elements in the environment are more readily interpretable than EnCGs that feature elements over the avatar body. The latter can result in situations in which achieving the goal of a word explanation activity (correct guess) can be difficult. In addition, the explainer’s orientation to their physical body and the recipient’s orientation to the virtual body during the joint word explanation activity can create situations in which the gestures become difficult to interpret for the recipient. To conclude, the observations in this article reveal the importance of the alignment of virtual and physical gestures for the intelligibility of gesture in VR.

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Achieving Preallocation: Turn Transition Practices in Board Games

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

Rule Talk: Instructing Proper Play With Impersonal Deontic Statements

Rule Talk: Instructing Proper Play With Impersonal Deontic Statements

Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

Environmentally coupled gestures as a communicative resource in the word explanation activity: A multimodal analysis of interaction in social VR

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