Time in Embodied Interaction

This chapter discusses how multiple time-scales intersect in a particular unit of embodied communicative action, body postures that are held for a moment (beyond the single sequence of talk). These time-scales are the immediate moment and its position within the unfolding interaction sequence; the personal (‘historical’) relationship among the specific persons adopting it (its duration); the workday over whose course the body tires; and the life-course over which a bodily ‘habitus’ is formed. Th