Co-animation and the multimodal management of contextualisation problems when jointly “doing being” others

Marina Cantarutti

doi:10.7146/si.v4i4.128166

Co-animation and the multimodal management of contextualisation problems when jointly “doing being” others

Marina Cantarutti

Language and Linguistic Science

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

In everyday interaction, participants speak on their own behalf but may temporarily speak as or on behalf of a figure (i.e. past or fictional self, others or objects). This practice of ‘animation’ can be continued or extended by co-participants in responsive position, resulting in co-animation (Cantarutti, 2020) of the same figure. Animation relies on the successful ascription of roles, participation framework shifts and projected stances to either the here-and-now of interaction or the there-and-then of animated content. In turn, the recognition of a response as a co-animation requires the creation of similarity between animated contributions. Through a multimodal interactional linguistic analysis of 89 cases of co-animation, this paper discusses how participants jointly solve these interactional contextualisation ‘problems’ smoothly through multimodal gestalts of lexico-grammatical, prosodic and gestural detail.

Original language	English
Journal	Social Interaction. Video-based Studies of Human Sociality
Volume	4
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v4i4.128166
Publication status	Published - 16 Dec 2021

Access to Document

10.7146/si.v4i4.128166Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

Cite this

@article{a74ab83c203a42f9ae8315797c454550,

title = "Co-animation and the multimodal management of contextualisation problems when jointly “doing being” others",

abstract = "In everyday interaction, participants speak on their own behalf but may temporarily speak as or on behalf of a figure (i.e. past or fictional self, others or objects). This practice of {\textquoteleft}animation{\textquoteright} can be continued or extended by co-participants in responsive position, resulting in co-animation (Cantarutti, 2020) of the same figure. Animation relies on the successful ascription of roles, participation framework shifts and projected stances to either the here-and-now of interaction or the there-and-then of animated content. In turn, the recognition of a response as a co-animation requires the creation of similarity between animated contributions. Through a multimodal interactional linguistic analysis of 89 cases of co-animation, this paper discusses how participants jointly solve these interactional contextualisation {\textquoteleft}problems{\textquoteright} smoothly through multimodal gestalts of lexico-grammatical, prosodic and gestural detail.",

author = "Marina Cantarutti",

year = "2021",

month = dec,

day = "16",

doi = "10.7146/si.v4i4.128166",

language = "English",

volume = "4",

journal = "Social Interaction. Video-based Studies of Human Sociality",

issn = "2446-3620",

number = "4",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Co-animation and the multimodal management of contextualisation problems when jointly “doing being” others

AU - Cantarutti, Marina

PY - 2021/12/16

Y1 - 2021/12/16

N2 - In everyday interaction, participants speak on their own behalf but may temporarily speak as or on behalf of a figure (i.e. past or fictional self, others or objects). This practice of ‘animation’ can be continued or extended by co-participants in responsive position, resulting in co-animation (Cantarutti, 2020) of the same figure. Animation relies on the successful ascription of roles, participation framework shifts and projected stances to either the here-and-now of interaction or the there-and-then of animated content. In turn, the recognition of a response as a co-animation requires the creation of similarity between animated contributions. Through a multimodal interactional linguistic analysis of 89 cases of co-animation, this paper discusses how participants jointly solve these interactional contextualisation ‘problems’ smoothly through multimodal gestalts of lexico-grammatical, prosodic and gestural detail.

AB - In everyday interaction, participants speak on their own behalf but may temporarily speak as or on behalf of a figure (i.e. past or fictional self, others or objects). This practice of ‘animation’ can be continued or extended by co-participants in responsive position, resulting in co-animation (Cantarutti, 2020) of the same figure. Animation relies on the successful ascription of roles, participation framework shifts and projected stances to either the here-and-now of interaction or the there-and-then of animated content. In turn, the recognition of a response as a co-animation requires the creation of similarity between animated contributions. Through a multimodal interactional linguistic analysis of 89 cases of co-animation, this paper discusses how participants jointly solve these interactional contextualisation ‘problems’ smoothly through multimodal gestalts of lexico-grammatical, prosodic and gestural detail.

U2 - 10.7146/si.v4i4.128166

DO - 10.7146/si.v4i4.128166

M3 - Article

SN - 2446-3620

VL - 4

JO - Social Interaction. Video-based Studies of Human Sociality

JF - Social Interaction. Video-based Studies of Human Sociality

IS - 4

ER -