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Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature in social interaction and activity. The studies consider many objects (e.g. paper documents, food, a camera, art, furniture, and even the human body), across various situations, such as shopping, visiting the doctor, interviews and meetings, surgery, and instruction in dance, craft, or cooking. Analyses reveal in precise detail how, as people interact, objects are seen, touched and handled, heard, created, transformed, planned, imagined, shared, discussed, or appreciated. With the companion collection Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. By focussing on objects in and for actual occasions of human action, Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity will interest many researchers and practitioners in language and social interaction, communication and discourse, design, and also more widely within anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related disciplines.

This paper explores how material objects feature within social interaction in the car. Objects in the car commonly include phones or other technologies, food, bags and carry items, body care products, written materials, clothing, and toys. The paper considers two examples to show how participants' interaction with objects can be occasioned and conducted. In the first, driver spontaneously initiates involvement with the object to materially support an already-developing course of social activity (singing to passenger). In the second, driver prepares an object as a new focus of social activity with passenger (an envelope containing photos and a thank-you card). In both cases, we see especially how driver and passenger, as both vehicle occupants and social participants, organise the demands of attending to and handling objects with the dynamic demands of driving, and relative to the car's movement in the external environment. We see how driver, in particular, embodiedly orients to objects (gaze, handling) so that driving is treated as the primary activity in a multiactivity setting. This study therefore highlights interaction in cars as a site for configuring materiality, mobility, and multiactivity. Data examples are from a corpus (27 hours, 90 journeys) of video recordings of ordinary car journeys in Australia. The language is English.

This paper considers diagnostic error in cooperative work as a contributing factor for a military 'friendly fire' incident. It emphasises aspects of the moment-to-moment sequential organisation of interaction, and turn design, to explore the significance

This paper considers diagnostic error in cooperative work as a contributing factor for a military 'friendly fire' incident. It emphasises aspects of the moment-to-moment sequential organisation of interaction, and turn design, to explore the significance

Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called 'multitasking' – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking offers a fresh view to the phenomenon by presenting studies that explore how two or more activities can be related and made co-relevant as people interact with one another. The studies build on the basis that multiactivity is a social, verbal and embodied phenomenon. They investigate multiactivity by using video recordings of real-life interactions from a range of different contexts, such as medical settings, office workplaces and car driving. With the companion collection Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. A close appreciation of how people use language and interact for and during multiactivity will not only interest researchers in language and social interaction, communication studies and discourse analysis, but will be very valuable for scholars in cognitive sciences, psychology and sociology.