Multiactivity in Social Interaction -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1. Introduction -- Towards multiactivity as a social and interactional phenomenon -- An overview -- From multitasking to multiactivity: Not just cognition but also sociality -- Cognitive perspectives: Individual multitasking -- Sociological perspectives of multitasking -- Applied issues: Normative and prescriptive visions -- Transition: Rethinking multitasking as multiactivity -- Situated practices in real time: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis -- Novel issues in the study of interactional multiactivity -- Existing EMCA literature and contributions of this book -- Towards an emic view of multiactivity -- The organisation of multiactivity: Simultaneity, sequentiality, seriality, and the temporal ordering -- Practices for organising multiactivity -- Conclusions -- References -- The temporal orders of multiactivity: Operating and demonstrating in the surgical theatre -- Introduction -- Data -- Temporal dimensions of multiactivity -- Time in interaction -- Multiple related and interfering temporalities -- Three temporal orders -- Parallel order -- Embedded orders: Integrated and hierarchised actions -- Micro-adjustments: Perturbations, hitches, slowdowns -- Successive alternations within turns -- Successive alternations within the sequence -- Suspensions and resumptions -- Abandonments -- Exclusive order -- Operating in silence -- talking without operating -- Forbidding to ask questions -- Talking too much -- Conclusion: Dynamic temporalities -- References -- Appendix -- Part 2. The organisation of multiactivity -- Sustained orientation to one activity in multiactivity during prenatal ultrasound examinations -- Introduction -- Participation frameworks and multimodal resources for activities -- Initiation of additional activities.

Transitory phases -- Sustained orientation to the on-going ultrasound examination -- Termination of additional activities -- Interruption of the ultrasound examination -- The temporary nature of the interruption -- Restoration through the optimised distribution of orientations -- Conclusion -- References -- Suspending action: From simultaneous to consecutive ordering of multiple courses of action -- Introduction -- Data -- Progressivity in reference to multiactivity and suspension -- Moments of multiactivity: Securing progressivity with suspension turns -- Local contingencies of suspension in multiactivity moments -- Incompatible bodily involvements -- Incompatibility in the timing of actions -- Consequences of the practice -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part 3. Interruption and resumption of activities in multiactivity situations -- Negotiating favourable conditions for resuming suspended activities -- Introduction -- Data and methods -- The coordination of linguistic and embodied resources for accomplishing resumption in multiactivity -- Example 1: Participants' multimodal orientations in negotiating a return to work on the laptop -- Example 2: Navigating conflicting involvements and negotiating a return to game-playing -- Summary of the findings -- Conclusions: Resumptions and managing multiples -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Attending to a summons and putting other activities 'on hold' -- Introduction -- Research material and data collection -- Attending to the doorbell during a Skype video call at home -- Managing an incoming phone call in the office while discussing current tasks with a colleague -- Managing an incoming phone call while on the air -- Discussion -- Constituting an audible occurrence as a relevant event -- The production of recognisable multiactivity episodes as a members' joint concern.

Concluding remarks: Towards an anthropology of multiactivity -- References -- Managing multiactivity in a travel agency: Making phone calls while interacting with customers -- Introduction -- Talk and action in technological environments -- Data and method -- Initiating phone calls while interacting with a customer -- Transitions to outgoing phone calls -- Transitions to incoming phone calls -- Ending phone calls: Momentary and final resumptions of the main interaction -- Momentary resumptions -- Final resumptions -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part 4. Multiple involvements and participation frameworks -- A body and its involvements: Adjusting action for dual involvements -- Introduction -- Preserving the progressivity of intersecting courses of action -- Suspending an ongoing course of action as a resource in pursuing another course of action -- Retarding an ongoing course of action over another (expanding) course of action -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Multimodal participation in simultaneous joint projects -- Introduction -- The corpus -- Theoretical background -- Interpersonal coordination of multiple joint projects on the team level -- Phase 1: OCH announces to PAT that the collar will be attached to his neck while collar is prepared -- Phase 2: OCH adjusts collar while PAT complains and assistants impart vital parameters -- Phase 3: OCH suspends adjustment of collar to check measures and requests pulse oxymetre -- Phase 4: OCH attaches the cervical collar -- Intrapersonal coordination of simultaneous participation in two joint projects -- Talk and hearing vs. manual action monitored by gaze -- Talk and hearing vs. gazing (and pointing) -- Manual action vs. gaze (and talk and hearing) -- Conclusion and discussion -- References -- Appendix -- Person index -- Subject index.