Jürgen Streeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 165330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürgen Streeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Streeck |
| SIGNATURE | STREECK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4632-4786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 361 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Abstract Spontaneity: On Brushstrokes as Gestures
An old improvisational semiotic practice is gesturing by hand. Hand gestures have often been regarded as spontaneous embodiments of psychic processes, and also as a primal and universal mode of human expression. The view not only characterizes some psychological and lay theories, but also schools of modern art, most explicitly Abstract Expressionism. This article is a study of hand gestures by an art historian discussing two Abstract Expressionis…
Roundtable: Afterthoughts on the Semiotics of Improvisation
This roundtable discussion convenes contributors to this special issue for reflections on the diversity of their research questions, approaches, and findings, as well as avenues for further inquiry. The discussion touches on several shared concerns, including the role of lexicalization in improvised forms becoming intelligible, enregistered, and reusable; how improvisational action might implicate action below the threshold of awareness; and more…
The significance of gesture: How it is established
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Cultural concept, movement, and way of life: Jeitinho in words and gestures
Starting from a non-dualistic view on embodiment this paper approaches the relationship between cognition, gesture, language, and cultural practice by analyzing the gestural construction of the cultural concept jeitinho in talk-in-interaction. After introducing our phenomenological view on embodiment and gesture in interaction, we give a short overview of some main studies broaching the issue of cultural matters before presenting the concept jeit…
Indexikalische Ausdrücke und mimetische Kommunikation
The emancipation of gestures
Interactional linguists are interested in ways in which communicative resources emerge from interactional practice. This paper defines a place for the study of gesture within interactional linguistics, conceived as ‘linguistics of time’ ( Hopper, 2015 ). It shows how hand gestures of a certain kind – conceptual gestures – emerge from ‘hands-on’ instrumental actions, are repeated and habitualized, and are taken to other communicative contexts wher…
Grammaticalization and Bodily Action: Do They Go Together
This response discusses how Keevallik’s suggestion that grammar is in some ways shaped by the tasks and constraints of (cooperative) bodily action relates to the established view of grammaticalization as an “invisible hand” process resulting from routinization of the motor actions of speech as well as general cognitive faculties. While grammaticalization processes have so far mainly been studied in data from connected (and world-representing) dis…
Intercorporeality
Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of “intercorporeality,” this book offers a new multidisciplinary perspective on human interaction. Intercorporeality is presented as an alternative to conceptions of the body that increasingly obstruct productive dialogue and collaboration between the disciplines. Examples of such conceptions include notions of the body as a container of psychic phenomena, a medium of outward expression, or a vehicle of …
Haptic Sociality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction
This chapter extends the sequential analysis of human action to encompass intimate co-operative action, accomplished through the haptic, temporally unfolding intertwining of multiple bodies. The focus is on the construction through public social practice of tactile intercorporeality. Within a basic social institution, the family, members make use of culturally appropriate tactile communication (including the hug, the kiss, and other intertwinings…
Coordinating talk and practical action: The case of hair salon service assessments
This paper investigates how talk and practical action are coordinated during one type of activity involving professional communication: the service-assessment sequence in hair salons. During this activity, a practical inspection of the haircut must be coupled with sequentially produced verbal acts. Our analysis of four examples reveals that there is no fixed relationship between the organization of talk and practical action. Instead, people mani…
Children’s interaction in an urban face-to-face society: The case of a South-American plaza
This paper reports on a micro-ethnography of social interaction in an urban plaza in Colombia, focusing on the plaza’s role as an arena for the acquisition of interaction skills. We investigate how children of different ages initiate and sustain interactions with same-age and older peers and the efforts they make to be recognized and ‘visible’. We interpret our data in light of three theories of socialization: Corsaro’s (1997) conception of child…
Embodiment in Human Communication
This article defines the present moment in the anthropology of embodied human communication as a moment of possible fusion between (a) the new conception of the living human body emerging in biology, cognitive science and neuroscience, and sociology and anthropology and (b) the advanced methodology and research on social interaction in the "interactionist" tradition, which is reinterpreted here as a study of socialized practices for interacting i…
Embodied Interaction: Language And Body In The Material World
1. Embodied interaction in the material world: an introduction Jurgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron Part I. Founding Capacities: 2. Collaborative construction of multimodal utterances Edwin Hutchins and Saeko Nomura 3. Formal structures of practical tasks: a resource for action in the social life of very young children Gene H. Lerner, Don H. Zimmerman and Mardi Kidwell 4. Elements of formulation N. J. Enfield 5. The changing meaning…
Interaction and the living body
New adventures in language and interaction
Gesten: Inszenierung, Aufführung und Praxis
Gesten gehören zu den frühesten und wichtigsten Darstellungs- und Ausdrucksformen. Sie sind allen Menschen gemeinsam und sind zugleich historisch und kulturell unterschiedlich. Gesten sind Handlungen ohne Worte. Als soziale und ästhetische Darstellungs- und Ausdrucksformen bringen sie den Körper in Erscheinung. Sie sind dynamisch und performativ; sie spielen eine zentrale Rolle in: bildender Kunst, Film und Musik; Theater, Performance und Tanz; s…
Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning
The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making sense of it, and symbolizing the interaction process itself. Gesture is analyzed as embodied communicative action grounded in the ha…
Depicting gestures: Examples of the analysis of embodied communication in the arts of the West
In “Depicting by gestures” ( Gesture , 8 (3)), I have explored the methods by which hand gestures depict the world. Here I explore how gestures themselves are depicted. Many paintings and sculptures show human bodies in motion or showcase traces of body movements, including gestures of the hand. The issue is how the artists succeeded in depicting or insinuating movement in media that are inherently still, and how such arrested gestures function i…
Communication as a Dynamical Self-Sustaining System: The Importance of Time-Scales and Nested Context
Journal Article Communication as a Dynamical Self-Sustaining System: The Importance of Time-Scales and Nested Context Get access Jürgen Streeck, Jürgen Streeck 1Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Scott Jordan J. Scott Jordan 2Department of Psychology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4120, U.S.A. Sear…
Projection and Anticipation: The Forward-Looking Nature of Embodied Communication
Forward-Gesturing
This paper discusses hand-gestures that serve as incipient and premonitory components of communicative actions and components of such actions. Gestures are examined with respect to the position in emerging turns and sequences of talk where they are made: before and at turn-beginning, in mid-turn, and during moments of turn-completion; and the projections that they make at these positions are delineated. Hand-gestures and their positioning relativ…
Depicting by gesture
This paper deals with ways in which gestural “pictures” are made, i.e., manual depictions of phenomena in the world. The view that “iconic” gestures uniformly function by way of some resemblance between signifier and signified is rejected, giving way to an understanding of depiction by gesture as the achievement of a heterogeneous set of practices, some of which rely on relations of contiguity or indexicality to evoke commonly known objects or sc…
Gesture in Political Communication: A Case Study of the Democratic Presidential Candidates During the 2004 Primary Campaign
In this article, I investigate forms and functions of hand-gestures in two Democratic Party primary debates during the 2004 presidential campaign. I argue that in an age of televised politics, the study of “politics as cultural practice” (Schudson, 2001 Schudson, M. 2001. Politics as cultural practice. Political Communication, 18: 421–432. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) should include the descriptive analysis of…
Homo Faber's Gestures
Grammars, Words, and Embodied Meanings: On the Uses and Evolution of So and Like
Journal Article Grammars, Words, and Embodied Meanings: On the Uses and Evolution of So and Like Get access Jürgen Streeck Jürgen Streeck 1Jürgen Streeck (Dr. Phil, Freie Universität Berlin) is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 52, Issue 3, September 2002, Pages 581–596, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb025…
Gesture as communication I: Its coordination with gaze and speech
Gesture is one of the least charted terrains in human communication. This article presents one in a series of attempts to illuminate the forms, uses, meanings, and functions of hand gestures by using methods of microanalysis and naturalistic description. Reporting on findings from research on videotaped natural interaction in eight speech communities, the author describes speakers' methods for making hand gestures relevant to the moment of symbol…
Speech acts in interaction: A critique of Searle∗
1980). Speech acts in interaction: A critique of Searle. Discourse Processes: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 133-153
Interaction and the living body
How to do things with things
Depicting by gesture
This paper deals with ways in which gestural “pictures” are made, i.e., manual depictions of phenomena in the world. The view that “iconic” gestures uniformly function by way of some resemblance between signifier and signified is rejected, giving way to an understanding of depiction by gesture as the achievement of a heterogeneous set of practices, some of which rely on relations of contiguity or indexicality to evoke commonly known objects or sc…
Forward-Gesturing
This paper discusses hand-gestures that serve as incipient and premonitory components of communicative actions and components of such actions. Gestures are examined with respect to the position in emerging turns and sequences of talk where they are made: before and at turn-beginning, in mid-turn, and during moments of turn-completion; and the projections that they make at these positions are delineated. Hand-gestures and their positioning relativ…
Gesture as Communication II: The Audience as Co-Author
Projection and Anticipation: The Forward-Looking Nature of Embodied Communication
Built Space and the Interactional Framing of Experience During a Murder Interrogation
Interaction by inscription
Embodiment in Human Communication
This article defines the present moment in the anthropology of embodied human communication as a moment of possible fusion between (a) the new conception of the living human body emerging in biology, cognitive science and neuroscience, and sociology and anthropology and (b) the advanced methodology and research on social interaction in the "interactionist" tradition, which is reinterpreted here as a study of socialized practices for interacting i…
A body and its gestures
This paper is about gestures made by a car-mechanic during a single extended episode of work. Some of these gestures are recurrent and appear to be parts of a repertoire of communicative forms with which this man responds to understanding tasks that routinely occur in his work; others appear to be abstracted from instrumental actions that he has recently completed. Both types of gesture reveal the specific stance and knowledge that the body makin…
Gesture in Political Communication: A Case Study of the Democratic Presidential Candidates During the 2004 Primary Campaign
In this article, I investigate forms and functions of hand-gestures in two Democratic Party primary debates during the 2004 presidential campaign. I argue that in an age of televised politics, the study of “politics as cultural practice” (Schudson, 2001 Schudson, M. 2001. Politics as cultural practice. Political Communication, 18: 421–432. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) should include the descriptive analysis of…
The emancipation of gestures
Interactional linguists are interested in ways in which communicative resources emerge from interactional practice. This paper defines a place for the study of gesture within interactional linguistics, conceived as ‘linguistics of time’ ( Hopper, 2015 ). It shows how hand gestures of a certain kind – conceptual gestures – emerge from ‘hands-on’ instrumental actions, are repeated and habitualized, and are taken to other communicative contexts wher…
A little Ilokano grammar as it appears in interaction
Embodied contexts, transcontextuals, and the timing of speech acts
Depicting gestures: Examples of the analysis of embodied communication in the arts of the West
In “Depicting by gestures” ( Gesture , 8 (3)), I have explored the methods by which hand gestures depict the world. Here I explore how gestures themselves are depicted. Many paintings and sculptures show human bodies in motion or showcase traces of body movements, including gestures of the hand. The issue is how the artists succeeded in depicting or insinuating movement in media that are inherently still, and how such arrested gestures function i…
Communication as a Dynamical Self-Sustaining System: The Importance of Time-Scales and Nested Context
Journal Article Communication as a Dynamical Self-Sustaining System: The Importance of Time-Scales and Nested Context Get access Jürgen Streeck, Jürgen Streeck 1Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Scott Jordan J. Scott Jordan 2Department of Psychology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4120, U.S.A. Sear…
Cultural concept, movement, and way of life: Jeitinho in words and gestures
Starting from a non-dualistic view on embodiment this paper approaches the relationship between cognition, gesture, language, and cultural practice by analyzing the gestural construction of the cultural concept jeitinho in talk-in-interaction. After introducing our phenomenological view on embodiment and gesture in interaction, we give a short overview of some main studies broaching the issue of cultural matters before presenting the concept jeit…
Tao/Saó: Talking culture with Rousseau∗
Grammaticalization and Bodily Action: Do They Go Together
This response discusses how Keevallik’s suggestion that grammar is in some ways shaped by the tasks and constraints of (cooperative) bodily action relates to the established view of grammaticalization as an “invisible hand” process resulting from routinization of the motor actions of speech as well as general cognitive faculties. While grammaticalization processes have so far mainly been studied in data from connected (and world-representing) dis…
Homo Faber's Gestures
William Labov & David Fanshel, Therapeutic discourse: Psychotherapy as conversation. New York: Academic Press, 1977
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Sandwich. Good for you. - Zur pragmatischen und konversationellen Analyse von Bewertungen im institutionellen Diskurs der Schule
Studies in the organization of conversational interaction
William Labov & David Fanshel, Therapeutic discourse: Psychotherapy as conversation. New York: Academic Press, 1977
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Speech acts in interaction: A critique of Searle∗
1980). Speech acts in interaction: A critique of Searle. Discourse Processes: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 133-153
Konversationsanalyse. Ein Reparaturversuch
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The Pear Stories. Cognitive, cultural, and linguistic aspects of narrative production
Embodied contexts, transcontextuals, and the timing of speech acts
Social Order in Child Communication: A Study in Microethnography
Tao/Saó: Talking culture with Rousseau∗
Linguistic Anthropology: Contexts of Competence: Social and Cultural Considerations in Communicative Language Teaching. Margie Berns
Linguistic Anthropology: Conversational Competence and Social Development. Joanna Dimitracopoulou
Gesture as communication I: Its coordination with gaze and speech
Gesture is one of the least charted terrains in human communication. This article presents one in a series of attempts to illuminate the forms, uses, meanings, and functions of hand gestures by using methods of microanalysis and naturalistic description. Reporting on findings from research on videotaped natural interaction in eight speech communities, the author describes speakers' methods for making hand gestures relevant to the moment of symbol…
Gesture as Communication II: The Audience as Co-Author
How to do things with things
A little Ilokano grammar as it appears in interaction
Built Space and the Interactional Framing of Experience During a Murder Interrogation
Robert Hopper 1945–1998
Interaction by inscription
Grammars, Words, and Embodied Meanings: On the Uses and Evolution of So and Like
Journal Article Grammars, Words, and Embodied Meanings: On the Uses and Evolution of So and Like Get access Jürgen Streeck Jürgen Streeck 1Jürgen Streeck (Dr. Phil, Freie Universität Berlin) is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 52, Issue 3, September 2002, Pages 581–596, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb025…
A body and its gestures
This paper is about gestures made by a car-mechanic during a single extended episode of work. Some of these gestures are recurrent and appear to be parts of a repertoire of communicative forms with which this man responds to understanding tasks that routinely occur in his work; others appear to be abstracted from instrumental actions that he has recently completed. Both types of gesture reveal the specific stance and knowledge that the body makin…
Homo Faber's Gestures
Depicting by gesture
This paper deals with ways in which gestural “pictures” are made, i.e., manual depictions of phenomena in the world. The view that “iconic” gestures uniformly function by way of some resemblance between signifier and signified is rejected, giving way to an understanding of depiction by gesture as the achievement of a heterogeneous set of practices, some of which rely on relations of contiguity or indexicality to evoke commonly known objects or sc…
Gesture in Political Communication: A Case Study of the Democratic Presidential Candidates During the 2004 Primary Campaign
In this article, I investigate forms and functions of hand-gestures in two Democratic Party primary debates during the 2004 presidential campaign. I argue that in an age of televised politics, the study of “politics as cultural practice” (Schudson, 2001 Schudson, M. 2001. Politics as cultural practice. Political Communication, 18: 421–432. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) should include the descriptive analysis of…
Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning
The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making sense of it, and symbolizing the interaction process itself. Gesture is analyzed as embodied communicative action grounded in the ha…
Depicting gestures: Examples of the analysis of embodied communication in the arts of the West
In “Depicting by gestures” ( Gesture , 8 (3)), I have explored the methods by which hand gestures depict the world. Here I explore how gestures themselves are depicted. Many paintings and sculptures show human bodies in motion or showcase traces of body movements, including gestures of the hand. The issue is how the artists succeeded in depicting or insinuating movement in media that are inherently still, and how such arrested gestures function i…
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