Papers by Renata Galatolo
Research on Language and Social Interaction, 2021
ABSTRACT How can lexical repetition help in guiding someone to do something? We take the example ... more ABSTRACT How can lexical repetition help in guiding someone to do something? We take the example of sports climbing. Climbing demands complex bodily movements to reach holds and propel the body upwards. It is harder for visually impaired athletes, since they cannot see in advance where holds are located, so guides help them. There is a great deal of interplay between the (a) affordances of the climbing wall; (b) the guides’ understanding of what the climbers are touching; and (c) the formatting, timing, and delivery of their instructions. We find that guides use carefully timed and prosodically calibrated lexical repetition (for example, up up up!) to adjust both the duration and direction of the climbers’ ongoing movements and to make sure that they get to their planned holds. Data are in Italian with English translation.
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Journal of Pragmatics, 2019
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Dialogue Studies, 2021
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Journal of Pragmatics, 2017
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Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 2019
In this paper, we deal with theoretical and analytical issues raised by the transcription of touc... more In this paper, we deal with theoretical and analytical issues raised by the transcription of touching practices. We will focus on both transcription resources and on how these resources are suitable for representing relevant analytical issues in studying touch. In particular, we are faced with methodological and epistemological issues at work with the visual and iconic dimensions of transcription systems and their relation with sensorial modality – touch – that can be, according to the context, purely visual (touch for showing and mapping), tactile (touch for testing and diagnosing), and tactile and visual (touch for orienting and guiding).
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Discourse Processes, 2016
The studies in this special issue focus not so much on apologies in public
discourse, in the med... more The studies in this special issue focus not so much on apologies in public
discourse, in the media, or in the world of public affairs but rather on those made
in everyday social interactions, for the (usually) slight but nonetheless significant
moments when someone treads on another’s toes, literally or metaphorically, and
causes some (usually) minor inconvenience or harm. The frequency and
significance of such moments are associated with the moral character of action,
of all action, whether physical or verbal. Each of these articles is a detailed and
illuminating empirical analysis of the occurrence and interactional work managed
through (and thereby the function of) different formats of one of the most prevalent,
and controversial, features of public, social discourse: how we (try to) make
amends through apologizing for misconduct in everyday social interactions.
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Discourse Processes, 2015
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19th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2015
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Journal of Pragmatics, 2017
This paper investigates three main formats for reason-for-calling invitations in Italian telephon... more This paper investigates three main formats for reason-for-calling invitations in Italian telephone calls and shows that these invitation formats are designed to include an informing/descriptive component and a requesting component. These two elements are encoded and foregrounded differently in the design of each format, constructing diverse ways to name, refer to or describe the social occasion that recipients are invited to attend and different ways of requesting the invitees to state their commitment to participate. Our findings provide evidence that, by using one of the three formats, speakers are able to tailor the invitation to the different contextual conditions in which they and their recipients may be when the invitation is made, as well as to the circumstances of the social event, with the inviters often displaying caution in extending the invitation. This paper also investigates the types of constraints on the degree of commitment from the invitation recipient that each format entails, offering a contribution to study preference organization in first actions.
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Discourse & Society, 2018
Since Garfinkel brought our attention to the moral order implied in everyday activities, studies ... more Since Garfinkel brought our attention to the moral order implied in everyday activities, studies on social interaction have described the practices through which members constitute the moral dimensions of everyday life. Drawing on Duranti’s notion of the “sense of the Other”, this paper illustrates how mundane morality is presupposed and (re)constructed in the micro-order of everyday life. Examples of video-recorded family dinner interactions are discussed, adopting a conversation analytic approach. The analysis illustrates how the sense of the Other is made relevant by parents as an organizing principle of ongoing activities and “talked into being” to manage ordinary tasks (e.g. pursuing synchronicity and distributing food). The analysis reveals that parents use siblings as a resource to embody the “generalized other” and socialize children to take the other’s perspective. Our study contributes to demonstrating the relevance of looking at ordinary practices as powerful means through which members orient to a moral version of the world and treat it as a natural one.
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Patient Education and Counseling, 2016
In specialized healthcare visits with a team of practitioners, the examination phase is a collabo... more In specialized healthcare visits with a team of practitioners, the examination phase is a collaborative work where multiple professional competences are indexed and activated, contributing to a complex ecology of knowledge. The doctors' need to consult their colleagues might take over and collide with patients' understanding and willingness to participate. We describe the practices through which practitioners accomplish teamwork and how these impact on patients' participation. Using conversation analysis we investigate 30 video-recorded visits where patients with an injured upper limb meet a team of practitioners in an Italian centre for prosthesis construction and application. Analysis shows the collaborative practices and division of labour through which practitioners activate their territories of knowledge in the service of the joint activity of evaluating the patient limbs' conditions. Whereas professionals orient to their different competences, patients keep their body available for inspection, monitor the ongoing activity, draw assumptions about their own conditions and tentatively claim their epistemic rights. Doctors' orientation to teamwork involves the enactment of tacit communicative practices and the use of technical language, which might prevent or mislead patients' participation. Doctors should employ communicative practices to ensure patients' understanding and participation in the unfolding examination activities.
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JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, 2017
This article investigates fifty specialised medical consultations conducted by a team of practiti... more This article investigates fifty specialised medical consultations conducted by a team of practitioners at a prosthetics centre. Specifically, the article focuses on evaluation sequences in which practitioners collectively assess the conditions of amputee patients by observing changing positions and various portions of their limbs (stumps), in order to choose the best prosthetic device for them. In so doing, practitioners participate in the construction of a shared diagnostic object (the assessable), a process that is crucial in the evaluation sequence and is key to understanding the interactional practices whereby the participants transform the patient’s limb(s) in a professional case to be processed in the following clinical phases. In particular, what emerges is a shared professional vision upon which all subsequent decision making rests. This vision is achieved through specific tacit practices reflecting the interplay of various territories of knowledge and building a professional backstage from which the patient is temporarily excluded.
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Langue Francaise, 2012
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Identities in interaction (Luca Greco, Lorenza Mondada, Patrick Renaud. eds.), 2014
The paper presents a detailed description of the discursive and interactional features through wh... more The paper presents a detailed description of the discursive and interactional features through which the judge activates his social identity during the trial, focusing on the relationship between the work of being a judge and the correspondent changes/shifts this entails in the participation framework.
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Studies in Legal Ethnomethods, 2015
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Text & Talk-An Interdisciplinary Journal …, 2006
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Papers by Renata Galatolo
discourse, in the media, or in the world of public affairs but rather on those made
in everyday social interactions, for the (usually) slight but nonetheless significant
moments when someone treads on another’s toes, literally or metaphorically, and
causes some (usually) minor inconvenience or harm. The frequency and
significance of such moments are associated with the moral character of action,
of all action, whether physical or verbal. Each of these articles is a detailed and
illuminating empirical analysis of the occurrence and interactional work managed
through (and thereby the function of) different formats of one of the most prevalent,
and controversial, features of public, social discourse: how we (try to) make
amends through apologizing for misconduct in everyday social interactions.
discourse, in the media, or in the world of public affairs but rather on those made
in everyday social interactions, for the (usually) slight but nonetheless significant
moments when someone treads on another’s toes, literally or metaphorically, and
causes some (usually) minor inconvenience or harm. The frequency and
significance of such moments are associated with the moral character of action,
of all action, whether physical or verbal. Each of these articles is a detailed and
illuminating empirical analysis of the occurrence and interactional work managed
through (and thereby the function of) different formats of one of the most prevalent,
and controversial, features of public, social discourse: how we (try to) make
amends through apologizing for misconduct in everyday social interactions.