Walking with Gail : the local achievement of interactional rhythm and synchrony through footwork.

Abstract

By analysing the movements through space of a famous conversation analyst delivering a well known lecture this paper reveals the creative construction of space within the social and physical constraints of the lecture hall, and in so doing contributes to the embodied analysis of humans in material environments. It uses terminology and insights from dance to help 'see' and analyse the movements as 'footwork' and 'figures'