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On the Practices of Doing Thinking or Doing Hesitation: Documenting recurrent visible practices and their synchronization with vocal actions

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This study presents the embodied practices of Doing Thinking, following the work of Heller (2021). When speakers experience doubt, uncertainty, or index a change of participation status, they typically display visual forms of momentary disengagement with gaze withdrawals and thinking faces (Goodwin & Goodwin, 1986).Other bodily postures and facial expressions have further been documented, such as ‘imaginative’ gaze, wandering of the eyes, ‘inflexible’ posture (Heller, 2021), or ‘thoughtful face’ (Bavelas & Chovil, 2018). Despite what the term ‘thinking’ entails, this practice is not a mere reflection of inner cognitive processes, but also an interactive and social demonstration of engagement towards the task at hand (Goodwin, 1987). In line with this body of work, the present qualitative study documents a series of recurrent features embodying the practice of doing thinking, or “doing hesitation”, which takes into account a series of verbal, vocal, and visual-gestural actions, more specifically non-lexical, vocal cues (e.g., ‘uh and ‘um’, pauses, inbreaths, tongue clicks) and hand gestures (e.g., cyclic gestures, finger snaps, and finger-tapping gestures). This work is based on two videorecorded corpora of French and English comprising one data sample of French and American students interacting in L1 versus L2 in tandem settings (Horgues & Scheuer, 2015), and a second sample of French students interacting in semi-spontaneous settings casual settings versus institutional ones (Kosmala, 2020). Using multimodal conversation-analytic methods (Mondada, 2016; Sacks et al., 1974), the analyses presented in this study show that the process of doing thinking or doing hesitation is an embodied act, making use of recurrent features across different languages and contexts of use. Two specific practices, mainly doing “self-centered thinking”, versus “interactional thinking” are also identified, which project different types of participation relevant to the activity in progress.

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hal-04335787 , version 1 (11-12-2023)

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Loulou Kosmala. On the Practices of Doing Thinking or Doing Hesitation: Documenting recurrent visible practices and their synchronization with vocal actions. International Society of Gesture Studies, Jul 2022, Chicago, United States. ⟨hal-04335787⟩
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