Socialité et co-opération dans l’œuvre de Charles Goodwin. Ou comment penser les passerelles entre linguistique, anthropologie et sociologie

Abstract

As a linguistic anthropologist, Goodwin elaborates a conceptual and methodological framework to describe the organization of human activities and conducts. The central notion of co-operation accounts for what is at stake in ordinary conversation as well as in professional practices, cultural transmissions, or expressions of cognitive phenomena ; and crosses bridges in a rich and systematic manner. The article will outline the different stages of Goodwin’s work, from an initial interest in language to the consideration of the role of the body and embodied practices in collective action. It will focus on the tools and concepts that have progressively emerged, and will eventually evoke the potential payoffs of such a body of work for French social sciences.

Keywords

• interdisciplinarity
• linguistic anthropology
• co-operation
• embodiment
• talk in interaction