32.1137, Books: Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups: Gilbert, Matoesian

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:06:23
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups: Gilbert, Matoesian

 


Title: Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups 
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 90  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.90 


Author: Kristin Enola Gilbert
Author: Gregory Matoesian

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260208 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260208 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260208 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208378 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208378 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208378 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They
provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by
soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However,
there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving beyond
a narrow preoccupation with topic talk, Gilbert and Matoesian take a novel
direction to focus group analysis. They address how multimodal resources – the
integration of speech, gesture, gaze, and posture – orchestrate communal
relations and professional identities, linking macro orders of space-time to
microcosmic action in a focus group evaluation of community policing training.
They conceptualize assessment as an evaluation ritual, a sociocultural
reaffirmation of collective identity and symbolic maintenance of professional
boundary enacted in aesthetically patterned oratory. In the wake of social
unrest and citizen disillusionment with policing practice, Gilbert and
Matoesian argue that processes of multimodal interaction provide a critical
direction for focus group evaluation of police reforms. Their book will be of
interest to researchers who study focus group interviews, gesture, language
and culture, and policing reform.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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