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

Cantarutti, Marina (2021). Co-animation and the multimodal management of contextualisation problems when jointly “doing being” others. Social Interaction. Video Studies of Human Sociality., 4(4)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v4i4.128166

URL: https://tidsskrift.dk/socialinteraction/article/vi...

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 (Mondada, 2018) of lexico-grammatical, prosodic, and gestural detail.

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