Book contents
- Co-Operative Action
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
- Co-Operative Action
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Is Co-Operative Action, and Why Is It Important?
- Part I Co-Operative Accumulative Action
- Part II Intertwined Semiosis
- Part III Embodied Interaction
- 12 Action and Co-Operative Embodiment in Girl’s Hopscotch
- 13 Practices of Color Classification
- 14 Highlighting and Mapping the World as Co-Operative Practice
- 15 Environmentally Coupled Gestures
- Part IV Co-Operative Action with Predecessors
- Part V Professional Vision, Transforming Sensory Experience into Types, and the Creation of Competent Inhabitants
- References Cited
- Index
- Series page
15 - Environmentally Coupled Gestures
from Part III - Embodied Interaction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2017
- Co-Operative Action
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
- Co-Operative Action
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Is Co-Operative Action, and Why Is It Important?
- Part I Co-Operative Accumulative Action
- Part II Intertwined Semiosis
- Part III Embodied Interaction
- 12 Action and Co-Operative Embodiment in Girl’s Hopscotch
- 13 Practices of Color Classification
- 14 Highlighting and Mapping the World as Co-Operative Practice
- 15 Environmentally Coupled Gestures
- Part IV Co-Operative Action with Predecessors
- Part V Professional Vision, Transforming Sensory Experience into Types, and the Creation of Competent Inhabitants
- References Cited
- Index
- Series page
Summary
Much analysis of gesture draws an invisible boundary at the skin of the actor(s). Here actions are examined that cannot be understood without simultaneous orientation to 1) language, 2) deictic gestures, and 3) structure in the environment that is the target of the deictic (as well as the mutual orientation of the participants’ bodies that creates a shared focus of attention). What emerge are gestures built through the mutual elaboration of different materials in different media that have a symbiotic organization in which a whole that is greater than, and different from, any single part is created. The laminated organization of environmentally coupled gestures draws together within a single action both a category and the phenomena in the world that are to count as proper instances of the category. They are thus central to the co-operative construction of shared knowledge, professional vision, and apprenticeship investigated in other chapters. Simultaneously, they force us to expand our sense of what counts as gesture, and the analytic frameworks required to study it.
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- Co-Operative Action , pp. 221 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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