Open AccessEmbodied Micro-Transitions
Author(s) -
Junichi Yagi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
social interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-3620
DOI - 10.7146/si.v4i4.128655
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , disengagement theory , conversation analysis , chord (peer to peer) , conversation , psychology , studio , deixis , orientation (vector space) , communication , cognitive science , sociology , computer science , linguistics , visual arts , art , artificial intelligence , mathematics , medicine , gerontology , distributed computing , philosophy , geometry
Employing multimodal conversation analysis, this article examines a single episode of interaction taken from a studio session, during which two musicians check a chord progression. It illustrates how intra-activity micro-transitions are solely achieved through embodied actions. The detailed analysis reveals (a) how the suspension of “playing-along” is occasioned to exhibit participants’ orientation to auditory objects whose “turning-on” makes relevant disengagement from other interactional involvements; and (b) how the temporal complexities of multiactivity are contingently managed in exclusive order, explicating (c) members’ embodied practices for working around the organizational constraints of the auditory objects.