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Enacting Emotion: Embodied Affective Stance in a Medical Education Fiction Seminar

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This chapter uses discursive psychology to examine how embodied affect is enacted and coordinated in social interaction. Data consist of a single-case study of a university seminar in which Swedish medical students and their tutor discuss fictional texts. Using the term ‘embodied affective stance’, our analysis demonstrates how affect is enacted through embodied resources, such as hand gestures and eye gaze, and how in doing so this manages subject-side and object-side accounts of emotion. This chapter builds on discursive psychological research on emotion and multimodal conversation analytic work on affect. As such, it provides an example of the importance of non-lexical and embodied aspects of interaction for discursive psychological analyses. This chapter contributes to research on emotion, embodiment, and medical education.

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  1. Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Anja Rydén Gramner & Sally Wiggins

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  1. Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Sally Wiggins

  2. Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden

    Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal

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Rydén Gramner, A., Wiggins, S. (2020). Enacting Emotion: Embodied Affective Stance in a Medical Education Fiction Seminar. In: Wiggins, S., Osvaldsson Cromdal, K. (eds) Discursive Psychology and Embodiment. Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53709-8_9

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