Intersubjectivity in Action

Studies in language and social interaction

Editors

Jan Lindström | University of Helsinki

Ritva Laury | University of Helsinki

Anssi Peräkylä | University of Helsinki

Marja-Leena Sorjonen | University of Helsinki

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Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the authors in this volume explore the achievement and maintenance of intersubjectivity. The contributions show how language codes and creates intersubjectivity, how interactants move towards shared understanding in interaction, how intersubjectivity is central to phenomena and experiences often considered merely individual, and how intersubjectivity evolves through learning. While the core methodology of the studies is Conversation Analysis, the volume highlights the advantages of using several methods to tackle intersubjectivity.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 326] 2021. vi, 437 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.326

Table of Contents

Intersubjectivity in action: An introduction

Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Anssi Peräkylä, Ritva Laury and Jan Lindström | pp. 1–22

Part I. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity

Organizing the “we” in interaction

Marja Etelämäki | pp. 25–15

Definitely indefinite: Negotiating intersubjective common ground in everyday interaction in Finnish

Ritva Laury | pp. 41–20

Directive turn design and intersubjectivity

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Marja Etelämäki and Marja-Leena Sorjonen | pp. 61–20

On agency and affiliation in second assessments: German and Swedish opinion verbs in talk-in-interaction

Peter Auer and Jan Lindström | pp. 81–27

Mirror-like address practice in Arabic-medium classroom interaction: Managing social relations and intersubjectivity

Irina Piippo | pp. 109–26

Brokering co-participants’ volition in request and offer sequences

Katariina Harjunpää | pp. 135–25

Part II. Moving towards shared understanding

Decision-making in salesperson–customer interaction: Establishing a common ground for obtaining commitment

Jarkko Niemi, Ellen Pullins and Timo Kaski | pp. 163–19

Building an intersubjective understanding of the patient’s mental suffering

Elina Weiste | pp. 183–17

Shared understandings of the human–nature relationship in encounters with small wildlife

Mirka Rauniomaa, Tiina Keisanen and Pauliina Siitonen | pp. 201–30

Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish conversation

Markku Haakana, Salla Kurhila, Niina Lilja and Marjo Savijärvi | pp. 231–19

Co-presence during lapses: On “comfortable silences” in Finnish everyday interaction

Anna Vatanen | pp. 251–26

Part III. Bodies and intersubjectivity

Achieving the intersubjectivity of sensorial practices: Body, language, and the senses in tasting activities

Lorenza Mondada | pp. 279–24

Emotion, psychophysiology, and intersubjectivity

Anssi Peräkylä, Liisa Voutilainen, Melisa Stevanovic, Pentti Henttonen, Mikko Kahri, Maari Kivioja, Emmi Koskinen, Mikko Sams and Niklas Ravaja | pp. 303–25

Movement synchrony as a topic of empirical social interaction research

Melisa Stevanovic and Tommi Himberg | pp. 329–18

Part IV. Evolving intersubjectivity

Learning to request in interaction: Intersubjective development of children’s requesting between one and five years

Minna Laakso | pp. 349–23

How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal: Constructing coherence by recycling

Marjo Savijärvi and Laura Ihalainen | pp. 373–23

Interactional reciprocity in human–dog interaction

Mika Simonen and Hannes Lohi | pp. 397–32

Appendix. Transcription conventions and glossing symbols | pp. 429–6

Index | pp. 435–3

“Where the book’s highly contextualized theoretical-empirical breadth proves additionally enriching is in terms of its contributive potential. This is evident not only when it comes to the extension of the empirical purviews of CA with respect to the insightful exploration of the driving forces of human interaction and societal life. But it is also noticeable in its potential to leave a unique mark on the contemporary study of intersubjectivity [...]. Moreover, what further testifies to the book’s longevity potential is that it provides an example of how an empirically directed exploratory landscape can prove instrumental not only in testing a theory, but also in taking the intersubjective dialectics as the informative point of departure for identifying the alleys that require further explanatory treatment.”

Vladan Sutanovac, Universität Wien, on Linguist List 34.519 (10 February 2023)

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Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics

ONIX Metadata

ONIX 2.1

ONIX 3.0

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