Mother-infant interactions in the lab setting : Collaborative participation frameworks and task orientation
(2025) In Research on Children and Social Interaction- Abstract
- The study discussed in this article aimed to understanding how pre-activity formulations are designed and accomplished by mothers in play interactions as everyday interactional business. Here, we report specifically on instances during the lab-based interactions where the mother orients to the lab-based task of singing with their infant, and discuss potential implications of such participant orientation on the type of data collected. Multimodal conversation analysis is used to transcribe and analyse the video recorded sequences of interaction between the mother-infant dyad, where findings demonstrate how (a) participation frameworks to perform the requested lab task initiated by the mother, as she (b) positioned the infant as a competent... (More)
- The study discussed in this article aimed to understanding how pre-activity formulations are designed and accomplished by mothers in play interactions as everyday interactional business. Here, we report specifically on instances during the lab-based interactions where the mother orients to the lab-based task of singing with their infant, and discuss potential implications of such participant orientation on the type of data collected. Multimodal conversation analysis is used to transcribe and analyse the video recorded sequences of interaction between the mother-infant dyad, where findings demonstrate how (a) participation frameworks to perform the requested lab task initiated by the mother, as she (b) positioned the infant as a competent interlocutor in the co-production of these participation frameworks when performing the lab-based task. As such, this article provides recommendations for subsequent research regarding choices on context concerning lab-based or real-world settings that are familiar to the participants for data collection. It is argued that both types of data collection are valuable for the study of children’s interactions using conversation analysis, and for studying children more broadly, but that researchers should be explicit about the impacts on data collected due to these different research contexts when authoring publications about their studies.
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title = {{Mother-infant interactions in the lab setting : Collaborative participation frameworks and task orientation}},
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