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Interacting with Objects : Language, Materiality, and Social Activity by Maurice Nevile (ed.), Pentti Haddington (ed.), Trine Heinemann (ed.), Mirka Rauniomaa (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 activit

Who reads Interacting with Objects : Language, Materiality, and Social Activity?

Author

Maurice Nevile (ed.), Pentti Haddington (ed.), Trine Heinemann (ed.), Mirka Rauniomaa (ed.)

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9789027269836

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Sociology, Literary Fiction