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The Coordinated Entry into Service Encounters in Food Shops: Managing Interactional Space, Availability, and Service During Openings

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Pages 271-291 | Published online: 10 Sep 2018
 

ABSTRACT

This article studies openings of service encounters in food shops. Based on video data in Catalan, Swiss German, Finland Swedish, and Finnish, it contributes to the general understanding of openings of face-to-face encounters by highlighting the systematic multimodal and sequential organization of sighting, gazing, greeting, walking, and moving into the reason for the encounter. More specifically, the article casts light on openings in institutional settings by investigating the methodic, coordinated achievement of entry into business and the contingencies involved. The article shows how the availability of the salesperson is displayed for the customer and how s/he orients to it, rendering visible how “service” is accountably offered and recognized.

Notes

1 The corpus “int-counters” includes recordings in 15 European cities in 12 languages. It has been constituted within the Finland Distinguished Professor project of Lorenza Mondada, “Multimodality: Reconsidering Language and Action Through Embodiment,” funded by the Academy of Finland and hosted by the Centre of Excellence in Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction at the University of Helsinki.

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Funding

This work was funded by the Academy of Finland (Grant No. 282931).

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