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Article published In: Pragmatics & Cognition
Vol. 27:2 (2020) ► pp.500–528

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The expressive dimension of interpersonal coordination and collaborative remembering

 | Universidad de Concepción | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | European University of Viadrina
 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Published online: 6 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.19034.oli
Abstract
While individuals interact, they coordinate their feelings and emotions. They also coordinate several kinds of expression while interacting, like facial expressions and gestures. Inspired by Karl Bühler’s Organon model and Henri Bergson’s description of remembering experiences, we explore interpersonal coordination during a collaborative remembering task between two people. We present a case study of one dyad employing videography to identify and distinguish two types of spontaneous interpersonal coordination (expressive-affective and representational). In a later stage, separate interviews of both participants are analyzed to establish whether content, freely remembered, is related to the previously observed coordination. The data describes that expressive-affective coordination during interaction is directly linked to the subjective organization of experience in individual remembering. We discuss these results, emphasizing the intersubjective aspects of lived experience and their relationship to expressive and representational aspects of coordination and remembering.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Body movements as lived experience
  • 3.Bodily movements in remembering experience
  • 4.The present study
    • 4.1Method
    • 4.2Participants
    • 4.3Procedure
    • 4.4Interaction analysis: Interpersonal coordination phenomena
    • 4.5Final version of the categories used in interaction analysis
    • 4.6Interview analysis
      • Subjective organization of remembering experience
      • Objective organization of remembering experience
      • Transitional organization of experience
  • 5.Results
    • 5.1Interpersonal coordination results
    • 5.2Description of interpersonal coordination during the interaction
    • 5.3Individual remembering results
    • 5.4Interpersonal coordination and remembering in perspective
  • 6.Discussion
  • Note
  • References
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