Intersubjectivity in Action

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by  Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä, Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Intersubjectivity
in Action
edited by
Jan Lindström
Ritva Laury
Anssi Peräkylä
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Intersubjectivity in Action
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Intersubjectivity in Action
Studies in language and social interaction
Edited by
Jan Lindström
Ritva Laury
Anssi Peräkylä
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
University of Helsinki
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Table of contents
Intersubjectivity in action: An introduction 1
Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Anssi Peräkylä, Ritva Laury and Jan Lindström
Part I. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
Organizing the “we” in interaction 25
Marja Etelämäki
Definitely indefinite: Negotiating intersubjective common ground
in everyday interaction in Finnish 41
Ritva Laury
Directive turn design and intersubjectivity 61
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Marja Etelämäki and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
On agency and affiliation in second assessments:
German and Swedish opinion verbs in talk-in-interaction 81
Peter Auer and Jan Lindström
Mirror-like address practice in Arabic-medium classroom interaction:
.d Managing social relations and intersubjectivity 109
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Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish conversation 231
Markku Haakana, Salla Kurhila, Niina Lilja and Marjo Savijärvi
Co-presence during lapses: On “comfortable silences” in Finnish
everyday interaction 251
Anna Vatanen
Part III. Bodies and intersubjectivity
Achieving the intersubjectivity of sensorial practices:
Body, language, and the senses in tasting activities 279
Lorenza Mondada
Emotion, psychophysiology, and intersubjectivity 303
Anssi Peräkylä, Liisa Voutilainen, Melisa Stevanovic,
Pentti Henttonen, Mikko Kahri, Maari Kivioja, Emmi Koskinen,
Mikko Sams and Niklas Ravaja
Movement synchrony as a topic of empirical social interaction research 329
Melisa Stevanovic and Tommi Himberg
Part IV. Evolving intersubjectivity
Learning to request in interaction: Intersubjective development
of children’s requesting between one and five years 349
Minna Laakso
How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal:
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ser sth Marjo Savijärvi and Laura Ihalainen
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Intersubjectivity in action
An introduction
Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Anssi Peräkylä,
Ritva Laury and Jan Lindström
University of Helsinki
Intersubjectivity is a complex concept, and some central approaches to it have
been discussed in areas of, for example, philosophy (based on e.g. early work by
Schuetz 1953), developmental psychology (Trevarthen & Aitken 2001), neurosci-
ence (Iacoboni 2008) and primatology (Tomasello 2008; Tomasello, Carpenter &
Hobson 2005). In the realm of the interactional approach that the chapters in this
volume represent we can initially note the following. Intersubjectivity is a precon-
dition for all human life: for social organization as well as for individual develop-
ment and well-being. A primordial site for its creation and maintenance is human
interaction.
By focusing on the creation and maintenance of intersubjectivity, the authors of
this book approach the topic from the perspectives of turn and action design, action
attribution, challenges in achieving shared understanding, embodied practices in
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in these studies, however, are those aspects of linguistic forms and structure that
serve to organize and sustain intersubjective understanding in the ongoing interac-
tion. Interaction exists before language (Schegloff 1996; Levinson 2006; Tomasello,
Carpenter & Hobson 2005), and language use cannot thus be seen solely as a means
of coordinating different cognitive perspectives (see e.g. Zlatev et al. 2008; Linell
2014; Etelämäki 2016). In addition, linguistic structures are used for organizing
and creating sequences of action and the relations of the participants to one other.
As opposed to much earlier theorizing, which basically describes the process of
“inter-thinking”, the position of the research presented in this volume stresses the
importance of “inter-action”, and intersubjectivity as an achievement in particular
interactions (see Deppermann 2015; Raymond 2019).
The organization of verbal and embodied actions in interaction is seen in con-
versation analytic research as built so that each “next” action is produced and un-
derstood in relation to the previous one (Schegloff 2007). Thus, each next action
brings forward its producer’s understanding of the previous action. The producer
of this previous action has, as the third action, an opportunity to confirm or revise
the understandings displayed by the producer of the second action. Through this
mechanism, the sequential relatedness of human actions provides for the possibil-
ity of shared, intersubjective understanding. Actions in interaction, then, are pro-
duced step-by-step in time, and recipients monitor the unfolding talk, constructed
through verbal and non-verbal resources, from the point of view of the action that
is unfolding and its possible completion in order to know when and how to act
next. This can be viewed as the publicly implemented procedure of intersubjectivity.
There are also other kinds of understandings of the character of the constitutive
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French, German, and Swedish, some of these in multilingual discourse. Through
short overviews of the parts and chapters of the volume, we will in the following
highlight and bring together its main conceptual, empirical and methodological
contributions.
1. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
This first part of the present volume consists of six chapters that deal with verbal
resources in the construction of intersubjectivity. While it is clear that participants
enter interaction with some assumptions of shared understandings regarding the
meaning and situational use of linguistic forms and how they are used to imple-
ment social actions, it is important to note that such understandings are not stable,
are always disputed, contingent, and emergent in and in fact created and contin-
uously reshaped by interaction (e.g. Hopper 1987; Pekarek Doehler, Wagner &
Gonzáles-Martínez 2018). Consider, for example, requests and suggestions for-
matted as om and jos ‘if’ clauses in Finnish and Swedish (J. Lindström, Lindholm
& Laury 2016; J. Lindström, Laury & Lindholm 2019). Like conditional ‘if’ clauses
in other languages, om and jos clauses are usually considered subordinate, and
thus should be followed by a main clause expressing a consequent, formatted as a
‘so’ clause. However, in their “insubordinate” use as requests (cf. Evans 2007), they
are often followed only by a verbal or embodied compliance. If the compliance is
delayed or missing, the consequent or an account will follow, or it may follow only
after the compliance has been expressed, as in Excerpt (1) from a conversation
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