"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"--.

• Intersubjectivity in Action
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Intersubjectivity in action: An introduction
  • 1. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
  • 2. Moving towards shared understanding
  • 3. Bodies and intersubjectivity
  • 4. Evolving intersubjectivity
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Part I. How language codes and creates intersubjectivity
• Organizing the “we” in interaction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The analysis
  • 3. What happens in this sequence of talk?
  • 4. Intersubjectivity in interaction
  • References
• Definitely indefinite: Negotiating intersubjective common ground in everyday interaction in Finnish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background on referring and the use of referential forms in interaction
  • 3. Data and methodology
  • 4. Definite indefinites in Finnish conversation
    • 4.1 Se yks in negotiations of epistemic access
    • 4.2 Se semmonen in category negotiations
    • 4.3 Se joku in mentions of unimportant referents
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• Directive turn design and intersubjectivity
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Directive turns with imperatives
  • 3. Directive turns with zero-person+modal constructions
  • 4. Directive sequences with both imperatives and zero-person+modal constructions
  • 5. Discussion and conclusion
  • References
• On agency and affiliation in second assessments: German and Swedish opinion verbs in talk-in-interaction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Agency and affiliation
  • 3. Dealing with weak agency: Assessing in group interviews
  • 4. Agency, alignment and sequence structure in agreeing second assessments
    • 4.1 Sequence closure: Low agency
    • 4.2 Sequence closure: High(er) agency and low affiliation
    • 4.3 Sequence expansion: High(er) agency and no evaluative downgrading
  • 5. Disagreeing second assessments
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• Mirror-like address practice in Arabic-medium classroom interaction: Managing social relations and intersubjectivity
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Address inversion in interaction
    • 2.2 Intersubjectivity in semiotic encounters
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Address inversion in classroom interaction
    • 4.1 Address inversion in initial action
    • 4.2 Address inversion in responsive actions
  • 5. Conclusion and discussion
  • Note of acknowledgement
  • References
• Brokering co-participants’ volition in request and offer sequences
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Wanting something: Volition in the transfer of objects and services
  • 3. Three types of brokering
    • 3.1 Brokering prior action as a request
    • 3.2 Brokering prior action as an offer
    • 3.3 Somewhere between requests and offers
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Multimodal transcription conventions
• Part II. Moving towards shared understanding
• Decision-making in salesperson–customer interaction: Establishing a Common Ground for Obtaining Commitment
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Decision-making in business-to-business selling
  • 3. Data
  • 4. The stepwise construction of customer’s commitment
    • 4.1 Determining the customer need and a potential solution
    • 4.2 Collaborative achievement of an advancement in the business relationship
  • 5. Summary and conclusions
  • References
• Building an intersubjective understanding of the patient’s mental suffering
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Dealing with mental suffering in psychiatry
  • 3. Patient’s descriptions of mental suffering
  • 4. Responding to patient’s expressions of suffering
  • 5. Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Shared understandings of the human–nature relationship in encounters with small wildlife
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data
  • 3. Analysis
    • 3.1 Displaying shared understandings
    • 3.2 Setting an example and guiding others to achieve a shared understanding
    • 3.3 Guiding and instructing others to pursue a shared understanding
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Extending sequences of other-initiated repair in Finnish conversation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. When extensions are rare: Candidate understandings and open class initiators
  • 3. When extensions are more frequent: (Partial) repetitions of trouble turn and repetitions with question words
  • 4. Discussion
  • References
• Co-presence during lapses: On “comfortable silences” in Finnish everyday interaction
  • 1. Introduction: Co-presence and social situations
  • 2. Empirical background: Lapses as silent moments in interaction
  • 3. Data and methodology
  • 4. On ways to orient to lapses: Towards the “comfortable” silence
  • 5. On the reciprocity of orientations: Negotiating understandings of the lapse
  • 6. Concluding remarks: On co-presence and its intersubjective transformation
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Part III. Bodies and intersubjectivity
• Achieving the intersubjectivity of sensorial practices: Body, language, and the senses in tasting activities
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. From individual experiences to public evidences of sensorial qualities: Sharing sensations
    • 2.1 The evidence of ‘smoke’ (Group 1)
    • 2.2 The evidence of ‘smoky’ (Group 2)
  • 3. Searching for what it tastes: Building intersubjectivity
    • 3.1 Searching for taste: From the glass to the aroma wheel
    • 3.2 Finding taste descriptors: Overhearing from one table to another
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Transcription conventions
  • Funding
  • References
• Emotion, psychophysiology, and intersubjectivity
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Sharing the emotional load in storytelling
  • 3. Physiology of affiliation and dominance in Asperger’s syndrome
  • 4. Physiology, affiliation and challenge in psychotherapy
  • 5. Discussion
  • References
• Movement synchrony as a topic of empirical social interaction research
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Movement synchrony as a (sequential) contextual phenomenon
  • 3. An empirical case: Synchronization of body movement during joint decision-making
    • 3.1 Data and method
    • 3.2 Results
    • 3.3 Discussion of the results
  • 4. How should one account for the interactional functions of movement synchrony?
  • Funding
  • References
• Part IV. Evolving intersubjectivity
• Learning to request in interaction: Intersubjective development of children’s requesting between one and five years
  • 1. Requesting as social action
  • 2. Development of language and requests in childhood
  • 3. Data and procedure
  • 4. Interactional development of requesting between one and five years of age
    • 4.1 Intersubjective understanding of embodied requests
    • 4.2 Interactional development of emerging verbal requests
    • 4.3 Learning linguistic sophistication of requests in peer interaction
  • 5. Conclusion and discussion
  • References
• How an improvised scene emerges in theatre rehearsal: Constructing coherence by recycling
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and method
  • 3. Analysis
    • 3.1 Preceding scene: Getting going and getting stuck
    • 3.2 Moving on to improvisation and constructing coherence
    • 3.3 Orchestrating with embodiments
    • 3.4 Reflecting on the scene
  • 4. Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Interactional reciprocity in human–dog interaction
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 The Still-Face Paradigm
    • 1.2 The Strange Situation Paradigm
  • 2. The setting and methods
  • 3. Research questions
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever and the passive owner
    • 4.2 The Saluki and its passive owner
    • 4.3 Summary of the analysis
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Index