Joint enterprise

As the adage has it, the best time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. That’s sound advice for anybody – but especially so if you happen to be responsible for maintaining a piece of critical infrastructure. And that is why National Highways – custodian of England’s trunk road network – has […]

Making space: instructions in joint building activities

1 Introduction This contribution reports on an interdisciplinary study using multimodal space-based interaction analysis (Hausendorf et al., 2016) to investigate co-orientation, co-ordination and co-operation (Hausendorf, 2013) during interactional activities that structure the material space. In the two cases discussed here, participants are engaged in the making of a sandal from animal rawhide using a flint […]

‘Are we next?’ Worried high-rise dwellers take photos, seek answers after Surfside – Tampa Bay Times

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