Heller Vivien
Department of German Studies, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2021 Feb 18;12:636671. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.636671. eCollection 2021.
This study investigates moments in which one participant in an interaction embodies that he is "doing thinking," a display that is commonly referred to as "thinking face. " From an interactional perspective, it is assumed that embodied displays of "doing thinking" are a recurring social practice and serve interactive functions. While previous studies have examined thinking faces primarily in word searches and storytelling, the present study focuses on argumentative activities, in which children engage in processes of joint decision-making. The paper has two interrelated aims. The first aim is to describe how multiple modalities-beyond the face-are temporally coordinated to create multimodal gestalts of "doing thinking." It is shown that thinking displays not only involve dynamic imaginative gaze but also stylized bodily postures. The second aim is to generate knowledge about the functions of thinking displays in children's argumentative activities. The analysis describes how both speakers and recipients use thinking displays in different turn positions and align them with verbal talk or silence. The data for this study comprise video recordings of decision-making processes in groups of older children. Drawing on a multimodal approach to situated interaction, it will be proposed that embodied displays of "doing thinking" provide a resource to shape participation frameworks, mark epistemic stances and create epistemic ecologies for collaborative reasoning. By investigating thinking displays in a particular conversational activity, the study sheds light on the diversity and context-sensitive functionality of thinking displays. It also contributes to recent research on children's collaborative reasoning as an embodied discursive practice.
本研究考察了互动中的一方体现出自己正在“进行思考”的时刻，这种表现通常被称为“思考脸”。从互动的角度来看，人们认为“进行思考”的身体表现是一种反复出现的社会实践，并具有互动功能。虽然先前的研究主要在单词搜索和讲故事中考察思考脸，但本研究聚焦于论证活动，即儿童参与共同决策的过程。本文有两个相互关联的目标。第一个目标是描述除面部之外的多种模态如何在时间上进行协调，以创造出“进行思考”的多模态整体。研究表明，思考表现不仅涉及动态的想象性注视，还包括程式化的身体姿势。第二个目标是生成关于思考表现在儿童论证活动中的功能的知识。分析描述了说话者和接收者如何在不同的话轮位置使用思考表现，并使其与言语交谈或沉默相协调。本研究的数据包括年龄较大儿童群体决策过程的视频记录。借鉴情境互动的多模态方法，我们将提出，“进行思考”的身体表现为塑造参与框架、标记认知立场以及为协作推理创造认知生态提供了一种资源。通过在特定对话活动中研究思考表现，该研究揭示了思考表现的多样性和情境敏感性功能。它也为近期将儿童协作推理视为一种身体话语实践的研究做出了贡献。
