Multiactivity in Social Interaction : Beyond multitasking.
This paper analyses paramedic emergency interaction as multi-modal multi-activity. Based on a corpus of video-recordings of emergency drills performed by professional paramedics during advanced training, the focus is on paramedics' participation in multiple joint projects which become simultane...
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Multiactivity in Social Interaction; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Part 1. Introduction; Towards multiactivity as a social and interactional phenomenon; An overview ; Cognitive perspectives: Individual multitasking ; From multitasking to multiactivity: Not just cognition but also sociality ; Sociological perspectives of multitasking ; Applied issues: Normative and prescriptive visions ; Transition: Rethinking multitasking as multiactivity ; Situated practices in real time: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
- Novel issues in the study of interactional multiactivity Existing EMCA literature and contributions of this book ; Towards an emic view of multiactivity ; The organisation of multiactivity: Simultaneity, sequentiality, seriality, and the temporal ordering; Practices for organising multiactivity ; Conclusions ; References ; The temporal orders of multiactivity: Operating and demonstrating in the surgical theatre; Introduction ; Data ; Temporal dimensions of multiactivity ; Time in interaction ; Multiple related and interfering temporalities ; Three temporal orders ; Parallel order.
- Embedded orders: Integrated and hierarchised actions Micro-adjustments: Perturbations, hitches, slowdowns ; Successive alternations within turns ; Successive alternations within the sequence ; Suspensions and resumptions ; Abandonments ; Exclusive order ; Operating in silence; talking without operating ; Forbidding to ask questions ; Talking too much ; Conclusion: Dynamic temporalities ; References ; Appendix ; Part 2. The organisation of multiactivity; Sustained orientation to one activity in multiactivity during prenatal ultrasound examinations; Introduction.
- Participation frameworks and multimodal resources for activities Initiation of additional activities ; Transitory phases ; Sustained orientation to the on-going ultrasound examination ; Termination of additional activities ; Interruption of the ultrasound examination ; The temporary nature of the interruption ; Restoration through the optimised distribution of orientations ; Conclusion ; References ; Suspending action: From simultaneous to consecutive ordering of multiple courses of action; Introduction ; Data ; Progressivity in reference to multiactivity and suspension.
- Moments of multiactivity: Securing progressivity with suspension turns Local contingencies of suspension in multiactivity moments ; Incompatible bodily involvements ; Incompatibility in the timing of actions ; Consequences of the practice ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgements ; References ; Part 3. Interruption and resumption of activities in multiactivity situations; Negotiating favourable conditions for resuming suspended activities; Introduction ; Data and methods ; The coordination of linguistic and embodied resources for accomplishing resumption in multiactivity.
