03031oam 2200445 450 991082106010332120210609084332.090-272-6020-6(CKB)4100000011703381(MiAaPQ)EBC6449949(EXLCZ)99410000001170338120210609d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMultimodal performance and interaction in focus groups /Kristin Enola Gilbert, Gregory MatoesianAmsterdam ;Philadelphia :John Benjamins Publishing Company,[2021]©20211 online resource (204 pages)Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;9090-272-0837-9 Focus groups : a multimodal approach -- They thought we were a hick town -- We're doin this here now -- Struck by speech -- Interactional positioning -- Poetic positioning and multimodal hypotheticals -- When the dust cleared up -- We have four hundred and seventy six neighborhood watches."Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However, there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving beyond a narrow preoccupation with topic talk, Gilbert and Matoesian take a novel direction to focus group analysis. They address how multimodal resources - the integration of speech, gesture, gaze, and posture - orchestrate communal relations and professional identities, linking macro orders of space-time to microcosmic action in a focus group evaluation of community policing training. They conceptualize assessment as an evaluation ritual, a sociocultural reaffirmation of collective identity and symbolic maintenance of professional boundary enacted in aesthetically patterned oratory. In the wake of social unrest and citizen disillusionment with policing practice, Gilbert and Matoesian argue that processes of multimodal interaction provide a critical direction for focus group evaluation of police reforms. Their book will be of interest to researchers who study focus group interviews, gesture, language and culture, and policing reform"--Provided by publisher.Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;90.Community policingUnited StatesEvaluationPolice-community relationsUnited StatesCommunity policingEvaluation.Police-community relations363.230973Gilbert Kristin Enola1669916Matoesian Gregory M.MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910821060103321Multimodal performance and interaction in focus groups4031402UNINA