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In:Reference: From conventions to pragmatics
Edited by Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
[Studies in Language Companion Series 228] 2023
► pp. 287–304

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“peut-être on peut improviser un peu”

The emergence of joint construction of reference in a card game situation

 | Université Lumière Lyon 2 | CNRS, ICAR
 | SKILDER
 | CNRS, ICAR | ENS de Lyon
 | CNRS, ICAR
 | Université Lumière Lyon 2 | CNRS, ICAR | SKILDER
 | CNRS, ICAR
Published online: 2 February 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.228.15bal
Abstract
Following the methodological approach of multimodal conversation analysis, our study focuses on the emergence of a jointly constructed reference during a card game interaction: the participants need to find a common solution in order to continue their activity. The data collected in situ allow us to apprehend the different verbal and non-verbal resources mobilised by the players in order to show that in social interaction reference construction is a joint achievement that involves various types of resources which are temporally finely tuned (among others joint visual attention on the object gesturally put in focus). We also show that once a referent-function association is established and grounded, it can be “activated” later on by using an iconic gesture.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Referential practices in social interaction
  • 2.Methodological approach and data description
    • 2.1Methodological approach
    • 2.2Data description
  • 3.Joint construction of reference and function association
  • 4.The joint construction of reference as multimodal work
  • Notes
  • References
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