Interacting with Objects : Language, materiality, and social activity.

Interacting with Objects -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Overview -- Objects in the social world -- Researching social interaction: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis -- Observable conduct and displayed understandings -- Embodiment and materiality: Resources for interaction -- Early contributions to the study of materiality and social interaction -- Contributions of this book: A focus on objects -- Conclusion: The interactional ecology of objects -- References -- Part A. Objects as situated resources -- Organising and sequencing -- The order of ordering: Objects, requests and embodied conduct in a public bar -- Introduction -- Objects and the organisation of service encounters -- The data and analytic approach -- Analysis -- The cash till as a mobilised object -- 'What table are you on?' -- 'Do you know your table number?' -- 'Where in the whereabouts': Embodied responses mobilising the environment -- Tables and tills -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Initiating activity shifts through use of appraisal forms as material objects -- Introduction -- Written documents as material objects in institutional encounters -- Toward a multimodal activity shift -- Data and method -- The multiple means of the initiation -- The appraisal form in multimodal negotiation -- Conclusions -- References -- Making computer use relevant while patients present their proble -- Introduction -- Computer use during history-taking side sequences -- Data and initial classifications -- Computer use and activity-progression -- From patient- to computer-centredness -- Computer-centredness during history-taking side sequences -- Conclusion -- References -- Participating and involving -- Objects as tools for talk -- Introduction -- Data -- Setting 1: The re-design of a backhoe loader.

Setting 2: The case of the massage stick -- Analysis -- Participation framework and communal objects -- The use of material objects to prepare a turn beginning -- Competing for a turn at talk with objects -- Competing for an object with a turn at talk -- Conclusion -- References -- Photo sharing as a joint activity between an aphasic speaker and others -- Introduction -- Multimodal conversation analysis, repairs and aphasia -- Data and methods -- Analysis and results -- Conclusion -- Implications -- References -- Organising the soundscape: Participants' orientation to impending sound -- Introduction -- Data -- Turning on auditory objects -- Initiating a sequence involving an auditory object -- Negotiating the turning on of an auditory object -- Turning on as interruptive and accountable -- Conclusion -- References -- Cultivating objects in interaction: Visual motifs as meaning making practices -- Introduction -- Data and method -- Introduction to the phenomenon -- Analysis: Sequence 1 - single, local recurrences -- Procuring the scholarship -- Allocating the scholarship -- Using the scholarship -- Closing the circle -- Analysis: Sequence 2 - A collaboratively occasioned visual leitmotif -- Initial mapping of the timeframe -- Uptake and development of the timeframe motif -- Visual leitmotifs developed over larger sequences -- Discussion -- References -- Part B. Objects as practical accomplishments -- Shaping and creating -- Cooking instructions and the shaping of things in the kitchen -- Introduction -- Manipulating and shaping objects in instructions -- Data -- Demonstrably manipulating objects: Chef's instructions -- Delaying objects' transformations: Trainees' questions following instructions -- Shaping objects: The situated work of following instructions in instructed actions -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription conventions.

References -- To follow the materials: The detection, diagnosis and correction of mistakes in craft education -- Introduction -- The empirical case -- Analysis -- Detecting and diagnosing a problem -- Solving problems and correcting mistakes -- Conclusion -- References -- -Having a ball: Immaterial objects in dance instruction -- Introduction -- The data -- Hands-on accomplishment of an immaterial object -- A throwing gesture -- Manipulating an object into existence -- Discussion: Interactional properties and functions of immaterial objects -- Conclusion -- References -- Experiencing and identifying -- Establishing joint orientation towards commercial objects in a self-service store -- Introduction -- Goods, products, objects -- Objects as resources for spatial orientation -- Establishing a joint focus of attention -- Initiating a change in orientation -- Locating and discovering objects -- Categorising objects -- Layered object categories -- Beyond "adequate" descriptions -- Talked-about objects -- Final considerations -- References -- Appendix -- Artworks as touchable objects: Guiding perception in a museum tour for blind people -- Introduction - Investigating a particular kind of object: Artworks -- Artworks as aesthetic objects -- Artworks' affordances: Thinking on the connection between object, perception and action -- From action to interaction: Artworks as interactional objects -- Touching artworks as an aesthetic experience -- Data and setting -- Analysis: Artworks as tangible 'experience-ables' -- Formulating artworks -- Manipulation as aesthetic experience -- Conclusion -- Transcription conventions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Incidental and essential objects in interaction: Paper documents in journalistic work -- Introduction -- Setting and data collection -- Paper documents in interaction at TV4.

Paper documents in support of negotiating access in the field -- Paper documents in the management of meeting talk -- Paper documents as a resource in the delegation of work -- Discussion -- References -- Envisioning the plan in interaction: Configuring pipes during a plumbers' meeting -- Introduction -- Method, data and key concepts -- Meeting as an organisational hub setting -- Reworking plumbing design -- Activating the document -- Rendering an idea with graphical representations -- Embodying the configuration of three dimensional objects -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Instructed objects -- Orders of specification, documentary evidences and the constitution of objects -- Analysis -- The setting -- A noticing in progress -- An instructed examination -- Negotiating the upshot -- The identity of objects and methods -- References -- Epilogue -- Trajectories of the object in interaction -- Reference and the relations between language and world -- Ontological dimensions of interaction -- Material and immaterial objects in language and action -- References -- Person index -- Subject index.

This chapter develops an ethnomethodologically-informed view regarding the sociality of objects, building upon Garfinkel's various descriptions of object constitution. We examine a particular case of diagnostic reasoning produced in the course of carrying out a surgical procedure at a teaching hospital. Our interest is in the methods employed by the surgeons in resolving certain incongruities in the case as it presents itself. Through an occasioned process of inquiry, the case at hand comes to be seen in a new light. This revised clinical picture is the oriented object under consideration here and it is produced as a discovered matter. We describe it as an instructed object to emphasise that perception is a kind of action and can too be taught. For us, as for Garfinkel, instruction is a fundamental feature of how social order is created and shared understanding sustained. In the analysed example, the methods by which a new appreciation of the case is achieved are public and inspectable. Instructional settings are, in this way, 'perspicuous sites' for investigating how "a world of meant objects" is produced.

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