On the interactive achievement of space – and its possible meanings

Hausendorf, Heiko; Auer, Péter; Hilpert, Martin; Stukenbrock, Anja; Szmrezcsanyi, Benedikt

doi:10.1515/9783110312027.276

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“…A common arrangement, especially for small gatherings, is the F-formation ( Kendon, 1990 ); i.e., a spatial configuration with which people establish “an overlap of their transactional segments […], enabling them to use these segments as a joint interaction space” ( Ciolek and Kendon, 1980 , p. 241; cf. Hausendorf, 2013 ; Mondada, 2013 ), which is also called “o-space” ( Ciolek and Kendon, 1980 , p. 243). Ciolek and Kendon describe different F-formations that are open or more closed.…”

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Helping as a Concurrent Activity: How Students Engage in Small Groups While Pursuing Classroom Tasks

Wakke

Heller

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This study examines interactions in which students help each other with their learning during classroom instruction, forming groups in the process. From a conversation analytic perspective, helping is assumed to be a sequentially organized activity jointly accomplished by the participants. As an activity that proceeds alongside other ongoing classroom activities, helping can be conceived as part of a multiactivity that poses students with multi-faceted interactional and moral challenges. While previous research on helping in educational contexts has primarily focused on the influence of helping on learning outcomes and social dynamics in helping interactions, the present study investigates how students cope with the intricacies of moral commitments inherent in helping as a concurrent activity. The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, we aim to elaborate on how students’ dual involvements – i.e., their involvement in classroom activities while simultaneously providing help – manifest in the ways in which groups are constituted, maintained, and dissolved. The analyses reveal that both the compatibility of helping with the activity already in progress as well as the students’ problem definition are consequential for the sequential and bodily-spatial unfolding of the help interaction, inducing different arrangements that constitute a continuum, at each end of which there is a dominant orientation toward the shared space of helping or toward the individual/collective space. Furthermore, from a methodological perspective, our study aims to demonstrate the extent to which multimodal interaction analysis is applicable when examining naturally occurring groups, in this case, in interactive processes of helping. The study is based on a data corpus that comprises video recordings of mathematics and German lessons from two fifth-grade classrooms.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Helping as a Concurrent Activity: How Students Engage in Small Groups While Pursuing Classroom Tasks

Wakke

Heller

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Die Frage, welche sozialen und kulturellen Implikationen damit jeweils verbunden sind und was konkrete Formen der Raumnutzung für den Vollzug der Interaktion in solchen Funktionsräumen bedeuten, berührt den Kern der Sozialtopografie. In ihrem Zentrum stehen die unterschied-8 Zum Konzept Interaktionsraum, das inzwischen im Kontext der Analyse multimodaler Interaktion zur aktiven Herstellung körperlich-räumlicher Konstellationen der Interaktionsbeteiligten mit unterschiedlicher Nuancierung etabliert ist, siehe beispielsweise Mondada (2007), Müller/ Bohle (2007), Schmitt/Deppermann (2007), Hausendorf (2013) sowie Schmitt (2013a). 9 Die Konzepte Interaktionsarchitektur und Sozialtopografie sind detailliert ausgeführt in Hausendorf/Schmitt (2013, 2016a.…”

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„Demonstrative“ und „partizipative“ Ritualität: Totensonntagserinnern in einem deutschen und einem russischen Gottesdienst

Schmitt

Pétrova

2018

Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift

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This article explores how close one can come to a cultural-scientific perspective on the basis of a constitution-analytical methodology. We do this on the basis of a comparison of the celebration of Totensonntag in Zotzenbach (Southern Hesse) and Sarepta (Wolgograd). In both places, there are protestant churches that perform this ritual to commemorate the dead on this “Sunday of the Dead” as a part of their church service. Our scientific interest lies in the reconstruction of the rituality produced during the in situ execution. In both services, the names of the deceased are read out and a candle is lit for each deceased person. In Zotzenbach the priest reads out the names and an assistant ignites the candles for the deceased, whereas in Sarepta the bereaved are responsible for this. Since the ritual is organised in very different ways in terms of architecture-for-interaction (statically in Zotzenbach, spatially dynamic in Sarepta), we can reconstruct two completely different models of rituality: a demonstrative one (Zotzenbach) and a participative one (Sarepta). The demonstrative model works on the basis of a finely tuned coordination between the two church representatives and is aimed at a dignified execution. The model in Sarepta is not suitable for the production of formality due to its participatory structure. Here, however, the focus is also on the aspect of socialization, which goes beyond the church service and offers the Russian-German worshipers the opportunity to situationally constitute as a culturally homogeneous group.

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“…The choice to meet in a classroom, which provides chairs that face towards the center of the room was no coincidence, but rather a conscious decision on the part of the instructors. We wanted to exploit the room's architecture to facilitate joint attention (Hausendorf, 2012(Hausendorf, , 2013Hausendorf and Schmitt, 2013). Through the furnishing of the room, the architecture thus flags or invites a particular joint attention.…”

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Negotiation of space in Second Life newbie interaction

Locher

Jucker

Berger

2015

Discourse, Context & Media

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Interaction in virtual worlds takes place in a spatial context. The interactants respond in various ways to this context but they also discursively create various spaces in their interaction. They negotiate spatial orientation through the use of linguistic deictic elements, create co-presence and joint attention through the gestures and positioning of their avatars and they need to handle screen space as well as the physical space of their surrounding. We discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the interdependence of interaction and space and its application to one specific virtual world, Second Life. We focus on a group of newbies, who participated in a workshop to experience computer-mediated communication in a virtual world and had to engage in 'classroom interaction' and group work. We discuss how the participants try to organize themselves in the virtual reality of Second Life, while situated in different locations in the physical world, and we demonstrate how the interactants rely on space for their orientation and interaction within the virtual world and how the physical world is brought into the online interaction. Negotiation of space in Second Life newbie interaction AbstractInteraction in virtual worlds takes place in a spatial context. The interactants respond in various ways to this context but they also discursively create various spaces in their interaction. They negotiate spatial orientation through the use of linguistic deictic elements, create co-presence and joint attention through the gestures and positioning of their avatars and they need to handle screen space as well as the physical space of their surrounding. We discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the interdependence of interaction and space and its application to one specific virtual world, Second Life. We focus on a group of newbies, who participated in a workshop to experience computermediated communication in a virtual world and had to engage in 'classroom interaction' and group work. We discuss how the participants try to organize themselves in the virtual reality of Second Life, while situated in different locations in the physical world, and we demonstrate how the interactants rely on space for their orientation and interaction within the virtual world and how the physical world is brought into the online interaction.

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On the interactive achievement of space – and its possible meanings

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Helping as a Concurrent Activity: How Students Engage in Small Groups While Pursuing Classroom Tasks

Helping as a Concurrent Activity: How Students Engage in Small Groups While Pursuing Classroom Tasks

„Demonstrative“ und „partizipative“ Ritualität: Totensonntagserinnern in einem deutschen und einem russischen Gottesdienst

Negotiation of space in Second Life newbie interaction

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