Lifting the pen and the gaze: embodied recruitment in collaborative writing
| Type of publication: | Article |
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| Journal: | Text & Talk |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Pages: | 69-91 |
| URL: | https://www.degruyter.com/docu... |
| DOI: | 10.1515/text-2020-0148 |
| Abstract: | This article investigates sequences of collaborative writing that are part of classroom interaction in student dyads and triads working with a digital device and a paper worksheet. In analyzing instances from a corpus of 18 h of video recordings made in five high-school classrooms through an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach, I focus on two embodied practices which do the work of recruiting assistance during the course of inscribing: lifting the pen and lifting the gaze. These practices are viewed as ordinary digressions from the basic posture of the writing body. I demonstrate that lifting the pen as a recruitment practice can be done as a brief stopping of the pen in its movement, as wrist rotation, or as hand elevation. Lifting the gaze can have varying temporal properties and occur synchronously with hand-on-face gestures. I conclude that collaborative writing underlines the indeterminacy of bodily practices as either recruitments, requests or contributions to joint courses of action. I also suggest that the identified practices may be further investigated as components of the specific speech-exchange system inherent to the activity of writing together. |
| Keywords: | collaborative writing, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, recruitment, requesting, writing-in-interaction |
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