Writing: A Versatile Resource in the Treatment of the Clients’ Proposals

Lindholm, Camilla; Stevanovic, Melisa; Valkeapää, Taina; Weiste, Elina

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“…The criticality of reaching common understanding on what has been decided and when is reflected by the fact that, in organizational meetings of large scale, there is commonly a chairperson who uses a gavel to mark the exact moment of the emergence of the decision, thereby also facilitating the closing down of the topic and the introduction of the next item on the agenda (Pomerantz & Denvir, 2007). While in more informal contexts, the closure of joint decision-making processes has been associated with the use of a multitude of communicative resources (Lindholm et al, 2020; Stevanovic, 2012b; Stevanovic et al, 2017; Stivers, 2005), this study complements the big picture by showing that the heightened intersubjectivity at the level of interactional behaviors has a physiological correlate, instantiating itself in a higher level of physiological and affective arousal. If such arousal is present when participants discuss such mundane issues as what to eat, it is expected to be even more prevalent when the decisions are more substantially consequential for them.…”

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“…Another reoccurring communicative event that marks the participants’ activity as joint decision-making is, of course, the emergence of a joint decision . This communicative event has been shown to be accomplished by the coordinated use of various resources, such as prosodic salience and specific lexical displays of agreement and commitment (Stevanovic, 2012b; Stivers, 2005), the matching of body sway and pitch register (Stevanovic et al, 2017), as well as material artifacts and writing (Lindholm et al, 2020). Since joint decision-making processes often involve several sequences of proposals and responses, the identifiability of the end of the sequence is of particular importance in the context of joint decision-making, where the outcome of the interaction—the decision—may be consequential for the participants.…”

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Making Food Decisions Together: Physiological and Affective Underpinnings of Relinquishing Preferences and Reaching Decisions

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We used a novel interdisciplinary experimental paradigm where two types of dyads—15 dyads with one depressed and one non-depressed participant and 15 dyads with two non-depressed participants—engaged in a series of food-decision-making tasks. We examined how different communicative events during the decision-making process were reflected in the affective responses of the interacting participants, as indicated in their skin conductance (SC) response rates. The participants’ SC response rates were found to be higher during the emergence of the final decision, compared to the other segments during the process. Furthermore, relinquishing one’s initially expressed preferences was associated with SC response rates higher than the baseline. However, during the relinquishment segments, there was a negative interaction between depression diagnosis and SC response rates, which suggests that, compared to their non-depressed comparisons, it is affectively less arousing for the participants with depression to give up their previously expressed preferences.

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“…Consequently, I hope to contribute to literature on proposals and joint decision-making (cf. -Kuhlen, 2014;Houtkoop, 1987;Lindholm et al, 2020;Lindström, 2017;Nissi, 2015;Stevanovic, 2012Stevanovic, , 2015Stevanovic, , 2021Stevanovic & Monzoni, 2016;Stivers & Sidnell, 2016;Thompson et al, 2021), particularly on how visuospatial resources become relevant, both for the formation of proposals, and for negotiations of deontic rights (Clifton et al, 2018;Kuroshima, 2023;Magnusson, 2022;Stevanovic, 2015Stevanovic, , 2018Stevanovic, , 2021Stevanovic & Peräkylä, 2012Van de Mieroop et al, 2020).…”

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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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“…In addition to the three above-mentioned components, the emergence of joint decisions has also been associated with the coordinated use of other resources such as prosodic salience (Stevanovic, 2012b), matching of body sway and pitch register (Stevanovic et al, 2017), and material artifacts and writing (Lindholm et al, 2020). While reciprocal exchanges of explicit verbal commitment to a new decision (e.g., "Let's do it!")…”

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“…In many cases, these formations become conventional practices for achieving certain goals within a community or activity. Such conventional practices include, for example, the striking of the hammer to conclude an auction sale (Heath and Luff, 2013) or to initiate a move to a next item in the meeting agenda (Pomerantz and Denvir, 2007), completing a turn-at-play by placing a token on the game board (Hofstetter, 2020), or formalizing decisions by writing them down (Mondada, 2011;Lindholm et al, 2020).…”

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Three Multimodal Action Packages in Responses to Proposals During Joint Decision-Making: The Embodied Delivery of Positive Assessments Including the Finnish Particle Ihan “Quite”

Stevanovic

2021

Front. Commun.

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Joint decision-making is a thoroughly collaborative interactional endeavor. To construct the outcome of the decision-making sequence as a “joint” one necessitates that the participants constantly negotiate their shared activity, not only with reference to the content of the decisions to be made, but also with reference to whether, when, and upon what exactly decisions are to be made in the first place. In this paper, I draw on a dataset of video-recorded dyadic planning meetings between two church officials as data, investigating a collection of 35 positive assessments with the Finnish particle ihan “quite” occurring in response to a proposal (e.g., tää on ihan kiva “this is quite nice”). The analysis focuses on the embodied delivery of these assessments in combination with their other features: their sequential location and immediate interactional consequences (i.e., accounts, decisions, abandoning of the proposal), their auxiliary verbal turn-design features (i.e., particles), and the “agent” of the proposals that they are responsive to (i.e., who has made the proposal and whether it is based on some written authoritative material). Three multimodal action packages are described, in which the assessment serves 1) to accept an idea in principle, which is combined with no speaker movement, 2) to concede to a plan, which is associated with notable expressive speaker movement (e.g., head gestures, facial expressions) and 3) to establish a joint decision, which is accompanied by the participants’ synchronous body movements. The paper argues that the relative decision-implicativeness of these three multimodal action packages is largely based on the management and distribution of participation and agency between the two participants, which involves the participants using their bodies to position themselves toward their co-participants and toward the proposals “in the air” in distinct ways.

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Writing: A Versatile Resource in the Treatment of the Clients’ Proposals

Cited by 5 publications

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Making Food Decisions Together: Physiological and Affective Underpinnings of Relinquishing Preferences and Reaching Decisions

Making Food Decisions Together: Physiological and Affective Underpinnings of Relinquishing Preferences and Reaching Decisions

Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

Three Multimodal Action Packages in Responses to Proposals During Joint Decision-Making: The Embodied Delivery of Positive Assessments Including the Finnish Particle Ihan “Quite”

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