Bodily shadowing

Sunakawa, Chiho

doi:10.1075/pbns.293.06sun

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“…(Goffman, 1981) as well as song as an interactional practice (Frick, 2013;Stevanovic & Frick, 2014) also relate to iconicity in interaction. (2020), Ivaldi (2016), Jokipohja & Lilja (2022), 20 Bodily shadowing refers to a specific practice whereby a demonstration by a conductor teacher is directly adopted by his students in a quasi-simultaneous manner (Sunakawa, 2018;cf. Ehmer, 2021).…”

Section: Iconic Phenomena In Interactionmentioning

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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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Section: Iconic Phenomena In Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In instructional settings, depictions serve to demonstrate that which is taught, either by serving as models that the learners can directly copy with their bodies (cf. Ehmer, 2021;Sunakawa, 2018), or by functioning as metaphors that aim to deduce certain behavioural qualities (cf. Szczepek Reed, 2021).…”

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Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

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2023

Studies in Language and Culture

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Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants

Hata

2020

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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This paper focuses on how immigrant Japanese women living in London categorise themselves in interviews conducted yearly from 2016 to 2019. Through analyses of participants’ personal narratives as immigrants and their relationships with their husbands’ relatives, I investigate (a) how they position themselves in the post-referendum social order; (b) how their positioning has changed over the three-year period; and (c) how their positioning is negotiated with other participants during the course of a group interview. My analysis shows how two kinds of bonding phenomena emerge during interactions. The first, social bonding, is a discursive, ideological practice to connect the self to social groups, whereas the second, interactional bonding, refers to communicative developments participants create.

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Familial bonding

Sunakawa

2020

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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In this chapter, I discuss how the sense of familial bonding emerges in webcam-mediated interactions between Japanese families in Japan and the United States. I argue that a close relationship between participants who rarely meet in person is an interactional achievement. My analytical foci are twofold. First, I analyze how participants repeat each other’s utterances and bodily movements such as hand gestures and facial expressions. Through what I call ‘mediated repetitions’, participants share understanding and encourage the virtual participants’ involvement in locally unfolding interaction frames. Second, I investigate how the organization of talk becomes relevant as participants maneuver webcams. I argue that the interactional efforts of coordinating repetitions and converting webcam capabilities into new interactional modalities contribute to the creation of a sense of bonding across geographical boundaries.

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Bodily shadowing

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants

Familial bonding

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