This book is a study of around seven hours of naturally occurring video data, recorded by the author in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Drawing on the methodology of Conversation Analysis, Gazin analyses instructional sequences of interaction during driving lessons. The temporal constraints of mobility make the driving lessons a rich setting for the investigation of sequence organisation and action constitution. The author identifies different types of actions that compose the unfolding driving and instructing activity, and their turn-constructional features (e.g. different verb forms for specific instructions). The analyses thereby offer insights that inform fundamental concepts like multiactivity and multimodality. The investigations in this book contribute to an increased understanding of the mechanisms of human interaction in general and in mobile settings more specifically.
Anne-Danièle Gazin, Ph.D. (2015), University of Bern, has taught at Antwerp University, RWTH Aachen, Utrecht University, and currently teaches at Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences in Antwerp. She has published articles on French and Italian and co-editored two journal issues. Her research focus is on language use in naturally occurring social interaction.
Contents
Acknowledgements Transcription Conventions (Based on Gail Jeffersonâs) List of Figures and Tables List of Excerpts
Introduction
1 A Conversation Analytic and Multimodal Approach to Interaction in Driving Lessons
â1âTheoretical Framework
â2âResearch Questions
â3âData
â4âTalking the Driving Lesson into Being
â5âInstructional Talk: Terminology
2 Instructing in a Mobile Setting: Literature Review
â1âInteraction in Mobile Settings
â2âMultiactivity
â3âDirective / Instruction â Response Sequences
4 Multiactivity in the Driving Lesson
â1âInstructions Embedded in the Ongoing Physical Activity
â2âThe Driving Activity as a Primary Context: Incipient Talk
â3âMultiple Activities â Multiple Types of Multiactivity
â4âThe Interaction during the Journey Structured by the Road Situation
â5âTurn-Taking as a Resource for Organising Multiactivity
â6âMultiactivity in the Driving Lesson: Discussion
5 Instruction Types and Instructing Practices: Sequence Organisation
â1âReceiving Instructions
â2âInstructions in or as Responses
â3âDifferent Kinds of Instructions: Sequence Organisational Specificities
â4âClosing Instructional Sequences
â5âTopicalising Problematic Driving Actions
â6âInstructional Chains
â7âComplex-Activity Sequences
â8âSingle Case Analysis: Explanation Sequence in the Parked Car â Confronting Teaching Practices
â9âSequence Organisation on the Move: Discussion
5 Instruction-Giving on the Move: Turn-Constructional Features
â1âDesigning Different Kinds of Instructions: Verb Forms as a Resource
â2âPresenting Driving Actions as Situated in the Physical Environment and in a Larger Activity
â3âEstablishing Reference to Actions with Few Resources
â4âOnline Adjustment of Instructions
â5âRepeats
â6âItinerary Instructions
â7âTurn Construction on the Move: Discussion
Concluding Discussion
â1âSummary of the Analyses
â2âFuture Directions
References Index of Subjects
Researchers and students interested in conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, and anyone concerned with multimodal talk-in-interaction, video-analysis, multi-activity, instructional sequences, mobility, and driving. Relevant also for transcription issues.