Social Interaction Analysis in Ethnography and Sociolinguistics: Methods and Multilevel Insights
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Interaction Analysis Ingeborg Krange Andreas Lund
Roots • Ethnography • Sociolinguistics • Conversation Analysis • Kinesics (”movement”) • … • SUM: Knowledge building through social interaction
Methodology • Capture speech, gesture, use of artefacts (’social and material ecologies’) • Individual/Collective/Relations • Detailed trajectories… • … in time/space dimensions • Multilevel analysis (macro/meso/micro) (’zooming’) • Video Analysis (many configurations!) • Transcripts (detail/speech – movement – distributed activities)
Problems • ”The black box of peer group learning” (Kumpulainen, K., & Mutanen, M., 1999). • Unit of analysis? Episodes? • The phenomenon? Meaning making, new type of activity, negotiations between agents… • How can we draw conclusions from qualitative data (corpus/selections)?