Harrison Simon
Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 10;11:1576. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01576. eCollection 2020.
This paper examines an intersection between ecological psychology and the enactive approach brought about by studying sense-making in relation to a behavior setting in Hong Kong and adopting a focus on embodied action and gesture. A cosmetics pop-up store embedded in a downtown shopping mall provides the basis for a case study involving a two-pronged analysis. I first use Barker's behavior setting theory to describe the publicly accessible structure and dynamics of the store, which reveals a bounded spatiotemporal entity with several interdependent behavior-milieu parts. I then analyze video recordings of my research participant encountering, entering, and exploring this environment. Following an enactive-informed micro-ethnographic approach to embodied communication, I examine her movements, postures, gestures, and language use as she joins the behavior setting. These fine-grained descriptions of her embodied actions provide an empirical basis to analyze enactive sense-making. On the one hand, they disclose the affective and emotional experience of perceiving relevant affordances in the environment, and on the other hand, they show the specificity of sensorimotor abilities required to join the setting's standing pattern of behavior.
本文通过研究香港一个行为场景中的意义建构，并聚焦于具身行动和手势，探讨了生态心理学与生成进路之间的交叉点。一家位于市中心购物中心的化妆品快闪店为一个涉及双管齐下分析的案例研究提供了基础。我首先运用巴克的行为场景理论来描述该店铺可公开获取的结构和动态，这揭示了一个具有若干相互依存的行为—环境部分的有界时空实体。然后，我分析了研究参与者遇到、进入并探索这个环境的视频记录。遵循一种基于生成进路的微观民族志方法来研究具身交流，我考察了她在融入行为场景时的动作、姿势、手势和语言使用。对她具身行动的这些细致描述为分析生成意义建构提供了实证基础。一方面，它们揭示了在环境中感知相关可供性时的情感和情绪体验，另一方面，它们展示了融入场景既定行为模式所需的感觉运动能力的特殊性。
