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      Embodied Displays of “Doing Thinking.” Epistemic and Interactive Functions of Thinking Displays in Children's Argumentative Activities

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          This study investigates moments in which one participant in an interaction embodies that he is “doing thinking,” a display that is commonly referred to as “thinking face. ” From an interactional perspective, it is assumed that embodied displays of “doing thinking” are a recurring social practice and serve interactive functions. While previous studies have examined thinking faces primarily in word searches and storytelling, the present study focuses on argumentative activities, in which children engage in processes of joint decision-making. The paper has two interrelated aims. The first aim is to describe how multiple modalities—beyond the face—are temporally coordinated to create multimodal gestalts of “doing thinking.” It is shown that thinking displays not only involve dynamic imaginative gaze but also stylized bodily postures. The second aim is to generate knowledge about the functions of thinking displays in children's argumentative activities. The analysis describes how both speakers and recipients use thinking displays in different turn positions and align them with verbal talk or silence. The data for this study comprise video recordings of decision-making processes in groups of older children. Drawing on a multimodal approach to situated interaction, it will be proposed that embodied displays of “doing thinking” provide a resource to shape participation frameworks, mark epistemic stances and create epistemic ecologies for collaborative reasoning. By investigating thinking displays in a particular conversational activity, the study sheds light on the diversity and context-sensitive functionality of thinking displays. It also contributes to recent research on children's collaborative reasoning as an embodied discursive practice.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                18 February 2021
                2021
                : 12
                : 636671
                Affiliations
                Department of German Studies, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Wuppertal , Wuppertal, Germany
                Author notes

                Edited by: Antonio Bova, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy

                Reviewed by: Josephine Convertini, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland; Sara Greco, University of Italian Switzerland, Switzerland

                *Correspondence: Vivien Heller vheller@ 123456uni-wuppertal.de

                This article was submitted to Language Sciences, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2021.636671
                7935546
                33679563
                ca1086cf-435d-4729-a562-1360d9e6d5e1
                Copyright © 2021 Heller.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 01 December 2020
                : 27 January 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 5, Tables: 2, Equations: 0, References: 86, Pages: 21, Words: 13162
                Categories
                Psychology
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                thinking face,multimodal gestalts,posture,gaze,epistemic stance,argumentation,decision-making,conversation analysis

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