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Publication details [#65787]

McIlvenny, Paul. 2019. How did the mobility scooter cross the road? Coordinating with co-movers and other movers in traffic. Language & Communication 65 : 105–130.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This article reports on a video-based conversation assay of mobility scooter users in daily life. A rally of road ’crossings' are explored to see how users control their behavior to be seen to be doing a ‘crossing’ by other ‘movers’. In the advent to a crossing place, users and their co-movers prepare for a ‘safe passage’ across the traffic flow and peruse the mobilescape for a prevenient ‘window of opportunity’ for joint mobile action. Farther, they parley their right to cross with other movers as well as their duties to the road's moral order.