In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment
Edited by Mieke Vandenbroucke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt
[Handbook of Pragmatics 27] 2024
► pp. 215–241
Revisiting talk in space
The inescapable mobility of social interaction
Published online: 31 October 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.27.rev1
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.27.rev1
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background: Towards a mobility turn in EMCA
- 3.Stationary and mobile activities
- 3.1Stationary activities
- 3.2Mobile activities
- 4.Questioning the dichotomy between stationary and mobile interaction
- 4.1The relevance of space in landline vs. mobile telephone conversations
- 4.2The duck/rabbit face of spatiality: The paradoxical space of cars, trains, planes
- 4.3The dynamics of spatiality: Interactional space
- 5.Conclusion
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