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Co-Operative
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Action
CHARLES GOODWIN
University of California
Co-Operative Action proposes a new framework for the study of
how human beings create action and shared knowledge by re-using
with transformation resources inherited from earlier actors: we inhabit
each other’s actions. Lodged within the midst of emerging action
itself, these practices progressively create an unfolding diversity of
human languages, cultures, and settings saturated with resources
inherited from predecessors; these provide the infrastructure for the
distinctive activities, and knowledge of specific communities. Goodwin
uses videotape to examine the talk and embodied actions of of family
members interacting with a man with severe aphasia, legal argument in
the Rodney King trial, children arguing and playing hopscotch, and the
fieldwork of archaeologists geologists, chemists and oceanographers.
Ethnographically rich, rigorous qualitative analysis of language-in-
interaction, embodiment, and tool use within historically shaped
settings, reveals uniquely human practices for building action in concert
with others that transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines.
October 2017
CHARLES GOODWIN, Distinguished Research Professor of 228 x 152mm 574pp 166 b/w illus.
Communication Studies, UCLA, is the author of “Professional Vision,” Hardback | 978-0-521-86633-0
the most cited article published to date in the American Anthropologist.
£120.00 £96.00 / $155.00 $124.00

CONTENTS
1. What is co-operative action why is it
important?
Part I. Co-operative Accumulative Action
2. Co-operative accumulation in children’s
arguing
3. The co-operative organization of emerging
action
4. Aphasia: Chil and his resources
5. Inhabiting and reshaping the actions of
others
6. The Distributed Speaker
Part II.Intertwined Semiosis
7. Intertwined knowing
8. Combining different kinds of materials
9. Intertwined actors
10. Projection & unfolding experience
11. Projecting events to accomplish co-operative
action
Part III. Embodied Interaction
12. Action and embodiment
13. Practices of color classification
14. Shaping skilled vision co-operatively
15. Environmentally Coupled Gestures
Part IV. Sedimented Landscapes for
Knowledge & Action
16. Co-operative action with predecessors
17. The accumulation of diversity
18. Seeing in depth
19. Endogenous pedagogy across generations
Part V. Professional vision, transforming
sensory experience into Types, & the
creation of competent inhabitants
20. The emergence of conventional signs in the
natural world
21. Calibrating experience by touching the
world together
22. The blackness of black: color categories as
situated practice
23. Building skilled, knowing actors and the
phenomenal worlds they are trusted to
know
24. Professional vision
25. Conclusion

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