Renata Galatolo

• PhD
• Associate Professor at University of Bologna

Background There is a lack of studies investigating how visually impaired individuals are trained to interact with their guide dogs during urban mobility exercises. This is a perspicuous setting for the investigation of the praxeological organization of visual impairment in everyday activities. Method This study analyzes video-recorded training se...

À partir du concept de « faire agir autrui », notre analyse s’intéresse au cas spécifique des instructions (à l’action) lors d’entraînements à l’escalade avec des athlètes malvoyant.es. Dans ce contexte, la performance de l’athlète est possible grâce à la coopération avec le/la guide. À travers les instructions, le/la guide fournit à l’athlète des...

Drawing on video-recorded data from pre-climbing route mapping with visually impaired climbers and a sight guide, this study uses conversation analysis to investigate the situated deployment of the Italian presentative (e) hai '(and) you have' within locally routinized multimodal Gestalts. The study shows that the guide uses (e) hai to progress rou...

Social distancing and isolation have been imposed to contrast the spread of COVID‐19. The present study investigates whether social distancing affects our cognitive system, in particular the processing of different types of brand logos in different moments of the pandemic spread in Italy. In a size discrimination task, six different logos belonging...

Understanding and evaluating pain is a growing concern in clinical practice and health care. In this article we examine how pain is talked about in 24 video-recorded visits of a team of medical professionals with postsurgery amputees. We identify a paradox: Although it is medically useful to identify postamputation pain (it can indicate problematic...

As Ragnar Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is “the architecture of intersubjectivity”: a tool not only for maintaining yet also constantly transforming our life-worlds. The volume advances and empirically illustrates the role of talk-in-interaction in displaying, ratifying, creating yet also defying the crucial dimensions of the world we...

How can lexical repetition help in guiding someone to do something? We take the example of sports climbing. Climbing demands complex bodily movements to reach holds and propel the body upwards. It is harder for visually impaired athletes, since they cannot see in advance where holds are located, so guides help them. There is a great deal of interpl...

The paper investigates instructions in the context of indoor climbing sessions involving blind and partially-sighted athletes. Within this sport setting, climbers with sight impairments are supported by sighted guides (in our data, trainers) who verbally instruct them during the climb. Drawing on data from elite-level training sessions, we analyse...

In this paper, we deal with theoretical and analytical issues raised by the transcription of touching practices. We will focus on both transcription resources and on how these resources are suitable for representing relevant analytical issues in studying touch. In particular, we are faced with methodological and epistemological issues at work with...

This article investigates specialised medical consultations conducted by a team of practitioners at a prosthetics centre. Specifically, the article focuses on evaluation sequences in which practitioners collectively assess the conditions of amputee patients by observing changing positions and various portions of their limbs (stumps), in order to ch...

Since Garfinkel brought our attention to the moral order implied in everyday activities, studies on social interaction have described the practices through which members constitute the moral dimensions of everyday life. Drawing on Duranti’s notion of the ‘sense of the Other’, this article illustrates how mundane morality is presupposed and (re)cons...

Link to the paper: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1WcT31L-nh41wv This paper investigates three main formats for reason-for-calling invitations in Italian telephone calls and shows that these invitation formats are designed to include an informing/descriptive component and a requesting component. These two elements are encoded and foregrounded diff...

Objective: In specialized healthcare visits with a team of practitioners, the examination phase is a collaborative work where multiple professional competences are indexed and activated, contributing to a complex ecology of knowledge. The doctors' need to consult their colleagues might take over and collide with patients' understanding and willing...

The present study investigated the presence of an implicit negative attitude towards individuals with prostheses in a sample of participants without any amputation, and whether this attitude could be modulated by the specific type of prosthesis (generic vs. athletic). Forty participants were administered an Implicit Association Test (IAT): half of...

Verifying different sensory modality properties for concepts results in a processing cost known as the modality-switch effect. It has been argued that this cognitive cost is the result of a perceptual simulation. This paper extends this argument and reports an experiment investigating whether the effect is the result of an activation of sensory inf...

The action of apologizing can be accomplished as the main business of the interaction or incidentally while participants are doing something else. We refer to these apologies as “parasitic apologies”, because they are produced en passant (Schegloff, 2007), and focus our analysis on this type of apology occurring at the opening of the call. Such apo...

« Je m'en mets toute seule ». Séquence d’étayage dans les repas de famille Renata Galatolo, Erika Vassallo, Letizia Caronia The article analyses examples of scaffolding activities occuring between parents and children of middle-class Italian families during dinner-time. The analysis highlights the ways through which participants engage in a scaff...

This study identifies a specific multimodal practice that patients use during medical encounters with a team of doctor in an Italian specialized centre for prosthesis construction and application. Focusing on the early stages of these encounters, the paper analyses the way in which patients delicately orchestrate their gaze, gesture and verbal beha...

Drawing on a corpus of audio-recorded interactions in a French association of present and future gay and lesbian parents, we analyze the processes whereby participants construct their identity of homo parents. The recorded interactions take place during focus group meetings in which participants share and discuss their experience. The discussion of...

Renata Galatolo & Luca Greco, Identity In interaction: categorization practices and accountability among gay and lesbian parents In this paper, we analyze the processes whereby participants construct their identity of homo parents. The data are focus group meetings in which participants share and discuss their experience. The discussion often focus...

This chapter, an exploratory study of the functions of DRS in legal testimonies, investigates the use of DRS in witnesses’ answers to questions posed during direct and cross-examination. The analysis will focus on the evidential and moral function that DRS has in this context. The evidential function of this discursive device is emphasised by the f...

In this paper, we analyze the organization of a collective activity in a professional setting: a restaurant kitchen. The analysis proceeds by examining the functions of order forms. The restaurant activity is dealt with as a situated activity system, i.e. as a set of heterogeneous elements - including persons as well as artifacts - brought together...

This article analyses witnesses' expanded answers to yes/no questions during direct and cross examination. Among possible types of expansions, the analysis focuses on 'narrative expansions', i.e., on expansions that go beyond the framework of the question. In the trial context, witnesses' expansions serve as a defensive resource, by allowing the wi...

Cet article aborde la question du contexte à partir de l'analyse comparée de deux corpus à travers la question des objets dans le site et de l'identité des participants. Les corpus concernent des cuisinières en action. Dans l'un, deux cuisinières professionnelles sont au travail dans la cuisine d'un restaurant ; dans l'autre deux étudiantes amies p...