In:OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 34] 2021
► pp. 301–336
Chapter 10A resource for action transition
OKAY and its embodied and material habitat
Published online: 17 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.34.10des
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.34.10des
Abstract
This chapter examines French
oké and Italian occhei
as resources with which interactants manage transitions from
one course of action to another. It analyzes different kinds of
institutional interactions, such as work meetings, political
assemblies, and guided visits in French and Italian. In these
settings, participants use OKAY within extended “transition phases”,
situated in specific multimodal, material and spatial environments.
This chapter shows that the sequential positions of OKAY are
sensitive to co-occurring embodied conduct, giving rise to complex
multimodal arrangements. Transitions from one course of action to
another are multimodally accomplished within the local ecology of
the interaction: the use of OKAY plays a crucial part in this
accomplishment.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1State of the art
- 1.2Data
- 1.3What’s in a transition?
- 2.From one object of visual attention to the next
- 3.From one point of the agenda to the next
- 4.From one participation framework to another in larger groups
- 5.From stationary to mobile activities
- 6.Discussion and conclusion
Notes
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