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Laughter, excitement, and suspense in preschool: Choreographing emotional stances as a multiparty achievement
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
2023 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)Alternative title
Skratt, uppspelthet och spänning i förskolan : koreografering av känsloyttringar i flerpartssamspel (Swedish)
Abstract [en]

Most research on emotions, including that which takes a social perspective, is directed at negative emotions and their manifestation in social situations that involve conflicts, disputes, and arguments. This thesis instead aims to address children’s heightened positive emotions and their interactional functions within the peer group and in learning encounters with teachers in preschool. Theoretically and methodologically, the thesis adopts a multimodal interaction analysis perspective. The data comprises 40 hours of video-ethnographic recordings of everyday activities conducted in a regular preschool in Sweden. The participants include 6 teachers and 50 children (ages 1-5, girls and boys). The following research questions underpin the thesis: How do young children invite co-participation and reciprocate laughter in multiparty interactions with peers and teachers? How do young children invoke excitement displays to initiate joint attention in multiparty peer settings in preschool? How do teachers choreograph suspense practices as a means to organize participation in educational activities? The thesis highlights the communicative and social affordances and challenges that young children encounter when interacting in large groups in preschool settings. The thesis contributes with knowledge in a largely unexplored area, i.e., heightened emotional displays in children’s peer groups, and adult-child interactions.

Abstract [sv]

Merparten av forskning om känslor, inklusive den som tar ett socialt perspektiv, är inriktad på negativa känslor och deras manifestation i sociala situationer som involverar konflikter, dispyter och argument. Denna avhandling syftar snarare till att rikta sig mot barns förhöjda positiva känsloyttringar och deras sociala interaktionella funktioner såväl i kamratgruppen som i deras dagliga interaktioner i lärsituationer med pedagoger i förskolan. Teoretiskt och metodologiskt intar avhandlingen ett multimodalt interaktionsanalysiskt perspektiv. Data består av 40 timmar videoetnografiska inspelningar av vardagliga aktiviteter som äger rum på en ordinär förskola i Sverige. Deltagarna inkluderar 6 pedagoger och 50 barn (flickor och pojkar ett till fem år). De forskningsfrågor som legat till grund för avhandlingen är följande: Hur bjuder små barn in till meddeltagande och till återgäldande skratt i flerpartssamspel med kamrater och lärare? Hur tar barn känsloyttringar till hjälp för att få till stånd en gemensam uppmärksamhet mellan flera deltagare i förskolans kamratgrupp? Hur koreograferar lärare spänningsmoment som ett sätt att organisera deltagande i utbildningsaktiviteter? Avhandlingen belyser de kommunikativa och sociala möjligheter och utmaningar som små barn möter när de interagerar i stora grupper i förskolemiljöer. Avhandlingen bidrar med kunskap till ett i stort sett outforskat område, det vill säga förhöjda positiva känsloyttringar inom barns kamratgrupp och i vuxenbarn interaktioner.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023. , p. 84
Series
Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences, ISSN 0282-9800 ; 867
Keywords [en]
Social interaction, Emotional displays, Adult-child interaction, Child-child interaction, Joint attention, Multiparty interaction, Peer cultures
Keywords [sv]
Samspel, Känslouppvisningar, Vuxen-barn samspel, Barn-barn samspel, Delad uppmärksamhet, Flerpartssamspel, Kamratkulturer
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Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-199178DOI: 10.3384/9789180754293ISBN: 9789180754286 (print)ISBN: 9789180754293 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-199178DiVA, id: diva2:1811830
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2023-12-14, TEMCAS, Building T, Campus Valla, Linköping, 10:00 (English)
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Available from: 2023-11-14 Created: 2023-11-14 Last updated: 2023-11-14Bibliographically approved
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1. Embodiment in reciprocal laughter: sharing laughter, gaze, and embodied stance in children’s peer group
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Embodiment in reciprocal laughter: sharing laughter, gaze, and embodied stance in children’s peer group
2021 (English)In: How emotions are made in talk / [ed] Jessica S. Robles, Ann Weatherall, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021, Vol. Sidorna 163-186, p. 163-186Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Laughter is a mundane phenomenon that is ubiquitous in social life. This chapter examines young children’s laughter, specifically focusing on the calibration of shared laughter as it typically occurs in multiparty interactions. It discusses?children’s interactional competences in calibrating emotional stances and affiliation. The analysis takes into account the multimodal features that characterise situations of reciprocal laughter, contributing to the understanding of laughter as a fully embodied social phenomenon. It shows that laughter was interactionally accomplished in ways that established affiliation between a group or a dyad of children. The establishment of mutual gaze was important in initiating, reciprocating and sustaining shared emotional stance through the performance?of laughter. The embodied calibration of the children’s shared stance shows that laughter is used in the establishment of affiliation and rapport. Young children’s situated humor and ‘funniness’ is thus clearly a joint, shared interactional and social – dyadic or multiparty – accomplishment.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-185212 (URN)9789027260062 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-05-19 Created: 2022-05-19 Last updated: 2023-11-14Bibliographically approved
2. Calibrating joint attention and affective stances in young childrens peer interactions
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Calibrating joint attention and affective stances in young childrens peer interactions
2022 (English)In: Journal of Pragmatics, ISSN 0378-2166, E-ISSN 1879-1387, Vol. 198, p. 29-42Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The present study addresses young childrens (three-to five-year-olds) peer interactions and explores a recurrent interactional genre, i.e. childrens affectively heightened attention-organizing practices used when initiating an exchange in preschool interactions in Sweden. The data consists of 40 h of video recordings collected in two regular pre-schools in Sweden. By using Multimodal Interaction Analysis (Goodwin, 2000) of video -recordings from everyday activities, we examine the verbal, embodied and material fea-tures of childrens interactions. The analysis shows that children exploited common access to objects or physical personal attributes within their socio-material environment and relied on them to secure the others attention, while using various methods for making the object noteworthy. By indexing their affective stance towards the referent, the children created the interpretative framework for the recipients response. However, the recipients orientation and stance alignment were not to be presumed. The peer responses comprised a continuum of their affective engagement: the children aligned with or downplayed the prior speakers stance through the affective quality of their response. In all, detailed interactional analysis reveals the young childrens interactional repertoires and the communicative challenges associated with childrens peer interactions.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2022
Keywords
Peer group interactions; Emotion; Stance; Alignment; Attention-getting
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-187297 (URN)10.1016/j.pragma.2022.05.016 (DOI)000827250300004 ()
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Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council [742-2013-7626]

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