Table of contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
Community policing: What is it?
2
The Community Policing Training Partnership CPTP (pseudonym)
4
Plan of the book
5
Conclusion
6
Chapter 1.Focus groups: A multimodal approach
9
The focus group interview
10
Multimodal conduct
14
Gesture
15
Gaze, movement, and posture
18
Part 1.Sociocultural organization in multimodal action
Chapter 2.
They thought we were a hick town
23
Professional expertise
23
Community
24
Collective identity
28
Expert identity
36
Community and expertise as interacting symbolic systems
43
Conclusion
45
Chapter 3.
We’re doin this here now
47
Example 1. We’re doin this here now
49
Hey Bob: Social organization in multimodal quotation
57
Criss-crossing streams of sociocultural opposition
65
Conclusion
67
Part 2.Multimodal rituals of stance and positioning
Chapter 4.Struck by speech
71
Introduction
71
‘Zeroing In’
75
Struck by speech embodied
79
Discursive constitution of jurisdictional identity
84
Conclusion
89
Chapter 5.Interactional positioning
91
Data Example 1
92
Mapping denotational text onto interactional positioning
101
Conclusion
106
Chapter 6.Poetic positioning and multimodal hypotheticals
109
Narratives and interactional positioning
109
Embedded and embodied hypotheticals
112
Positioning as an “outside” and “objective” observer
117
The interactive escalation of jurisdictional conflict
123
Conclusion
131
Part 3.Interactional troubles and contextualization cues
Chapter 7.
When the dust cleared up
135
Data: Example 1
136
Embodied evaluation
137
Affiliation and participation
140
Gaze and participation
145
Linguistic ideologies in institutional talk
146
Discussion: Macro-Micro integration
148
Conclusion
150
Chapter 8.
We have four hundred and seventy six neighborhood watches
151
The data
151
Contextualization cues and crosstalk
163
Conclusion
168
Conclusion
169
Summary and relevance of the findings
170
Final thoughts on community policing
173
Appendix. Data-methodology
175
Transcription conventions used
177
References
179
Index
189
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