“Ngóh Síhk Lá”: The coordinated expertise of eating withchopsticks: exchanging turns and exhibiting social order

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	“Ngóh Síhk Lá”: The coordinated expertise of eating withchopsticks: exchanging turns and exhibiting social order
	RICARDO MOUTINHO RODRIGUES DA SILVA; Richard Fitzgerald; Younhee Kim; Todd Sandel; Raquel Abi-Sâmara; Weng I lao
	2024-06
Size of Audience	50
Type of Speaker	Panel Speaker
Abstract	This paper explores participants’ mundane expertise and the locally-produced practical methods of eating with chopsticks in a social gathering among Southeast Chinese diners. As any mundane activity, eating with chopsticks is a coordinated practice and involves a high degree of social competence and practical reasoning. This reasoning becomes visible in our data, where diners seated around a table exchange turns while picking up food from the same set of bowls placed at the centre. This particular table layout allows participants to look at, orient to and project each other’s actions, which works as a resource for them to elaborate a complex turn taking system comprised by practical norms created, followed and adapted on the go. These norms become accountable when diners hold their chopsticks in different positions, exhibiting moments where they are waiting or bidding for a turn or rather just taking a short break. Norms also get visible when participants make short movements with their arms to reach for food placed on a bowl near them or when they make long movements to pick up food from a far-away tray. Our data also show that short-short and a long-short movements can overlap without the need of repair, whereas two long movements are avoided to minimize risks of collision. Moreover, we could also observe double turns, when participants, after having reached for food, hold the food with their chopsticks while waiting for their chance to dip it into the pot of sauce, also placed at the centre of the table.
Keyword	Chopsticks Turn Ethnomethodology Conversation Analysis
Language	英語English
Document Type	Presentation
Collection	DEPARTMENT OF PORTUGUESE
Corresponding Author	RICARDO MOUTINHO RODRIGUES DA SILVA
Affiliation	University of Macau
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	RICARDO MOUTINHO RODRIGUES DA SILVA,Richard Fitzgerald,Younhee Kim,et al. “Ngóh Síhk Lá”: The coordinated expertise of eating withchopsticks: exchanging turns and exhibiting social order

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