In:Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion: Intercorporeality, interkinesthesia, and enaction in sports
Edited by Christian Meyer and Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt
[Advances in Interaction Studies 8] 2017
► pp. 267–300
Chapter 11Intercorporeal (re)enaction
Instructional correction in basketball practice
Published online: 14 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.8.11eva
https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.8.11eva
Abstract
Sports coaching scholars increasingly understand coaching as a socio-pedagogical activity consisting of social interactions between coaches and athletes that aim to teach and improve skills and competencies. Coach feedback for the purpose of correcting player performance is a core feature of this activity, but coaching scholarship exploring the fine-grained organization of coaching corrections remains minimal. This chapter examines how correction events in basketball training are interactionally organized via participants’ mobilization of sequential embodied and linguistic resources. The analysis centres on the participants’ collaborative production and use of reenactments as a means of correcting player conduct, illuminating how the coach and players collaborate to configure an intercorporeal context that enables players to see and feel problematic performances and their correct alternatives.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and instruction in physical activities
- Demonstrations and reenactments in instructional corrections of physical activities
- Data and method
- Orienting to an instructional activity
- Orienting to an instructional activity as a correction of the prior drill performance
- Building an intercorporeal perceptual environment for reenactments
- Projecting reenactments into the constructed activity space
- Enacting correct conduct
- The intercorporeal accomplishment of correction contrast Pairs
- Conclusion
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