Indeterminacy of actions: Working out a relevant next in interaction with people with late-stage dementia
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| Titel: | Indeterminacy of actions: Working out a relevant next in interaction with people with late-stage dementia |
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| Autoren: | Majlesi, Ali Reza, 1979 |
| Quelle: | Language in society (London. Print). 54(4):815-840 |
| Schlagwörter: | People with dementia, co-operative actions, conversation analysis, multimodality, ethnomethodology, intersubjectivity |
| Beschreibung: | This study examines video recordings of activities within an elderly care home, particularly focusing on interactions involving people with dementia. The study presents instances where the relevance of the current conduct—and consequently the generation of a fitting response—appears indeterminate to the co-participant. Despite the uncertainty surrounding the mutually understood ‘constitutive expectancies’ (Garfinkel 1963) and a lack of shared understanding of ‘motivational relevancies’ (Schutz 1970), the participants continue to engage with one another. The analysis reveals that, in the face of an unrecognizable set of conduct and the indeterminacy of subsequent actions before closing down the activity, participants strive to maintain some degree of intersubjectivity by preserving or revisiting the constitutive order of their interaction. This commitment to the ‘co-operative’ nature of human actions (Goodwin 2018) is argued to be central to their interactions. |
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| Zugangs-URL: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-248599 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404524000769 |
| Datenbank: | SwePub |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | This study examines video recordings of activities within an elderly care home, particularly focusing on interactions involving people with dementia. The study presents instances where the relevance of the current conduct—and consequently the generation of a fitting response—appears indeterminate to the co-participant. Despite the uncertainty surrounding the mutually understood ‘constitutive expectancies’ (Garfinkel 1963) and a lack of shared understanding of ‘motivational relevancies’ (Schutz 1970), the participants continue to engage with one another. The analysis reveals that, in the face of an unrecognizable set of conduct and the indeterminacy of subsequent actions before closing down the activity, participants strive to maintain some degree of intersubjectivity by preserving or revisiting the constitutive order of their interaction. This commitment to the ‘co-operative’ nature of human actions (Goodwin 2018) is argued to be central to their interactions. |
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| ISSN: | 00474045 14698013 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0047404524000769 |