O choro na interação: o gerenciamento de ações em episódios nos quais o choro é tornado relevante

Abstract

The present work examines the resources used by individuals in the management of their actions after the occurrence of crying in attendance events by the pedagogical coordination of a public elementary school to the individuals responsible for the students. The theoretical perspective that underlies the research is the Ethnomethodological-based Conversation Analysis with contributions from the Anthropology of Emotions and the studies of Multimodality in speech-in-interaction. The corpus that composes the analysis presented in this dissertation corresponds to 16 meetings that accounted for approximately six hours of audiovisual recordings, the result of field research undertaken between the months of May and December 2019. Among these events, we selected four episodes that contain the occurrence of crying. Data analysis is divided into two main sections: crying sequences with the breakdown of visual contact between participants and crying sequences with the maintenance of eye contact. We identified that the visual contact between the individuals of these interactions provides guidance on how participants engage to perform their actions after crying, making resources available for the construction of both actions in affiliation and actions in alignment. We conclude that the affective/emotional postures, especially crying, demonstrated in the interaction are configured in the turn of the speech-ininteraction sequences and it is also possible to describe their trajectories and the effects they produce in the related practices. Thus, we seek to highlight in our work, as emotions are not mere accessories of action, but rather that they configure several actions and, therefore, require joint management between the interactants. The research carried out here contributes to the speech-in-interaction studies that seek to describe emotions in institutional contexts.