Abstract
This study examines the sequential and situated organization associated with framing locational formulations by dislocated parties to mobile phone calls for the joint accomplishment of location-related social action. The data come from 22 mundane Farsi mobile phone calls involving location inquiring and/or reporting. The analysis of the data, informed by conversational analysis and Levinson’s conceptual framework of perspective-taking, adds frame of reference (hereafter, FoR) to Schegloff’s location, membership, and topic or activity analyses operative in the selection of locational formulations. The trajectory plotted for location-related action indicates the contingent roles which material, linguistic and semiotic resources play in the selection of locational formulations deployed for co-presence purposes. The findings suggest consequentiality of the-relevant-next action for the framing of locational descriptions and provide insight into how conversationalists interact with their physical environment in a wider social context.
Highlights
Combining conversation analysis with general anthropology of space and spatial cognition, encapsulated in the framework of perspective-taking developed by Levinson (1996a, 1996b, 2003) the present study seeks to sketch locational descriptions which figure in mobile phone calls
Drawing on data coming from co-present interactions and landline phone calls, the analysis Schegloff (1972) presented indicated that the selection of locational formulations turns on location analysis, membership analysis, earlier expounded by Sacks (1972), and topic or activity analysis
He provided empirical interactional evidence suggesting that these considerations are part of what a speaker does in order to provide a locational description and what the hearer does to analyze the use of that particular formulation
Summary
Combining conversation analysis (hereafter, CA) with general anthropology of space and spatial cognition, encapsulated in the framework of perspective-taking developed by Levinson (1996a, 1996b, 2003) the present study seeks to sketch locational descriptions which figure in mobile phone calls. Applying the same notion to locational formulations in mobile phone calls, the selection of a particular angle or adoption of a particular frame of reference from which a description is provided is especially relevant to the ensuing social action.
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