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Transformative homes: squatting and furnishing as sociocultural projects
No full textIn the era of global workflows and massive migrations, it has been suggested that the notion of home is breaking free from its material aspects to become a set of exportable routines and practices. On the other hand, it is argued that the materiality of spaces and objects can support migrants' well-being in the new destination. Drawing on the ethnography of a Moroccan household in Rome, Italy, we illustrate how actions pertinent to the material home can favor identity development and the exercise of agency. First, we discuss squatting as a collective action of appropriation and transformation, which led to the identification with a transnational, intercultural category of migrant. Second, we illustrate the activities of furnishing as the locus of syncretic and reflexive processes, in which elements of the host country and themes from the migratory experience are mixed and reinterpreted in novel ways. Our analysis supports the view that the materiality of the home and the actions it af
I luoghi che raccontano/racconto dei luoghi: spazi ed oggetti domestici tra biografia e cultura
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My selves and I: identity markers in work meeting talk
No full textThis paper is concerned with the indexical meaning of the pronoun 'I', in its marked use, in Italian work-meeting conversation. The hypothesis driving the study is that, in a context in which situated identities are manifold, marking the pronoun is a device to highlight the most official of one's selves, thus changing the status of the utterance containing the marker. A typology of I-marked utterances is presented and the relative frequency of use is shown to vary with the organizational role of the participants. Detailed analysis of epistemic and performative I-marked utterances shows how role-identities are variously manipulated and mitigated through conversational devices such as self-repair, word delay, and metaphorical work. The discussion highlights how indexical meaning is a property of situated conversational practices and how marked pronouns can foreground selected identities in the cluster of selves that members of a work group can present to each other. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved
Narratives in the workplace: facts, fiction and canonicity
No full textDrawing on a set of workplace interaction corpora, both dyadic and multiparty, we present three narrative forms departing from the established notion of storytelling. These have been called Rewindings, collaborative reconstructions of yet-unknown past events; Fictions, the creation of imaginary scenes; and Templates, condensed versions of experience providing information on unexpected outcomes or controversial occurrences. Without denying specificity to narrative discourse, we extend its definition here to the displacement of the described actions. We propose that, similarly to what is done in other social and human sciences, conversational studies ought to take into consideration the description of events that are not fully known at the onset of narration and that are partially or entirely suggested by the narrators. The study also contributes to the field of workplace studies, providing an illustration of the functioning of distributed cognition and situated knowledge by showing how narrative is a collaborative enterprise facilitating problem solving and the dissemination of competence. © 2008 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Opening windows in each other’s mind: social sharing of hypertext models
No full textThe present study explores the effects of collaborative construction of a hypermedia on the collective reasoning skills of primary school children. The aim is to describe how small groups of children organise their work, make plans, create a product, and revise their work. Children working on a three-year project at the production of a hypermedia presentation were compared with control classes in an experimental work-session which simulated a hypertext production. A qualitative analysis has been performed on the conversational data collected through recordings of group-work discussions. The results reveal the effect of the experimental condition: children involved in the hypermedia project deployed different skills in the social organization of work, in the management of information, and in the construction of the final product. Also the quality of collective reasoning indicates that children in hypermedia project displayed greater interdependence in resolving the task
I racconti degli spazi domestici tra biografia e cultura: la cucina oltre il gendered space
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Haptic Resources in Pain Communication: New Amputees Redirecting Doctors’ Professional Touch at the Prosthetic Clinic
No full textPain assessment is key in deciding whether amputee patients are fit to receive a prosthesis, but its interactional accomplishment is still underexplored. This study adopts multimodal conversation analysis to investigate how pain assessment is carried out during medical visits at an Italian prosthetic clinic involving 77 patients and 24 health professionals. In the analyzed data, doctors carry out pain assessment by asking patients whether they feel pain during palpation of the stump, and patients respond by elaborating on their sensations and using touch in turn. The analysis focuses on a collection of 10 cases in which patients use response expansions and self-touch to reorient doctors' ongoing inquiry by specifying the type of sensation they experience and its location or to correct doctors' previous inquiry. The analysis illuminates how the patient's body becomes a resource for tactile practices that are shared between doctors and patients in the service of a common understanding of patients' pain. This analysis provides new knowledge of a practice patients use to redirect doctors' attention and understandings
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