Making complexities (in)visible : Empirically-derived contributions to the scholarly (re)presentations of social interactions

• Transcripts aspiring to represent naturally occurring interaction mediate analytic insights into fleeting human communicative performances that routinely implicate verbal and nonverbal dimensions in concerted action. Video technologies have introduced unprecedented opportunities to study interactional complexity in minute detail. This article aims to exemplify how the level of detail attended to in transcriptional representations can expand or restrict video data-derived results and throw different analytic light on the constitutive features of interactional phenomena and their generic workings. Towards this aim, various transcription formats are explored to represent classroom interaction from language focused lessons at a school setting in Sweden. The juxtaposition and analysis seek to highlight that making body orientations across time and space as well as written language unavailable for analysis renders invisible integral sense-making actions that bear consequentiality for participants. For the sake of emic and consequential analysis, appeal is made for an endeavour to attend to the interdependence of multimodal social practices that routinely compose naturally occurring interaction.

Nyckelord

classroom interaction

conversation analysis

interillumination

representation

transcript

literacy

Gender Studies

Genusvetenskap

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