Deixis and Indexicality

Deixis and Indexicality: Audiovisual Data Practices around Karl and Charlotte Bühler and in early Conversation Analysis

This workshop examines two crucial periods in the history of audiovisual data practices in the social sciences: Film analysis in a group of researchers around Karl and Charlotte Bühler (starting in Vienna, ca. 1924-1938, continued in exile in the USA) and early Conversation Analysis (starting in the 1960s in the USA). We will try to reconstruct practices of producing, processing and analyzing audiovisual data in these research contexts, but we are also interested in their reception, transformation and further development in later years. One shared theoretical motive in both contexts can be found in the related concepts of „deixis“ and „indexicality“. Both concepts have multiple historical precursors, amongst others in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, and play a key role in the work of Karl Bühler (deixis) as well as ethnomethodology and CA (indexicality). How they are related to practices of audiovisual sequence analysis is one of the central theoretical questions of this workshop.

Digital Workshop, April 28/29/30, 2021

Organization: Andrea Ploder and James McElvenny

Program

Wednesday, 28 April 2021

12:15      

 Welcome                                                                                                                                            
 12:30   
Erhard Schüttpelz (Siegen)
Hic Rhodos, nunc salta
14:00  
Anne W. Rawls (Bentley & Siegen)
Clarifying Conflicting Meanings of Sequentiality and Indexicality: The Difference Made by the Focus on Interaction in Garfinkel and Sacks
15:30  
Anja Stukenbrock (Lausanne)
From Bühler's demonstratio ad oculos to video and mobile eye tracking studies on deixis, gesture and gaze in social interaction
17:00   End of first day

Thursday, 29 April 2021

09:00
Janette Friedrich (Vienna, Geneva)
Bühlers Zeigfeld und die Rolle der Zeighilfen                                                                                                         
10:30
Ellen Fricke (Chemnitz)
Deiktizität, Medialität und Kontext: das Bühlersche Konzept der Zeigegeste und des Zeige-gestenäquivalents
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00
Lorenza Mondada (Basel)
The irremediable indexicality of situated action: an EMCA perspective
14:30
Jason Turowetz (Siegen) & Waverly Duck (Pittsburgh):
Autism and Sequential Order: How Investigating Breakdowns in Reciprocity Reveals the Structure of Interaction Orders

16:00

 End of second day

Friday, 30 April 2021

12:00
Maria Czwik (Vienna)
Concepts of cinematic deixis of the Bühler school – comparisons of media-specific deictic possibilities at the Vienna Institute for Psychology
13:30
Clemens Eisenmann (Siegen) and Anne W. Rawls (Bentley & Siegen)
From nuisances to making trouble. Indexicality and embodied action.
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30
Michael Lynch (Cornell & Siegen)
Doing things with indexical expressions: implications for sociological understandings of action
17:00
William Hanks (Berkeley)
Notes on the indexical field of Maya shamanic practice
18:30 End of Workshop