The work of Rom Harré was groundbreaking in attention to the dynamics of social episodes as discursively produced. In particular, Positioning Theory, as introduced and explicated by Harré and colleagues, focused on the examination of speech and other acts to consider positions and storylines. Positioning theorists also considered the shifting patterns of rights and duties that shape and are shaped by social interaction. In this article, we briefly revisit positioning theory. We then review two critiques of positioning theory—that positioning scholars have neglected real world, naturalistic data and that positioning theory places too much emphasis on verbocentric communication (e.g., speaking, writing). Drawing upon some of the earlier observations of Harré and his collaborators, we urge consideration of artifactual and embodied positions. Extending beyond conversational interactions, we consider how the embodied actions and the artifacts produced by individuals can be analyzed. The paper includes data-based examples of embodied interactions related to artifacts and multimodal communication in a children’s engineering literacy club. The examples demonstrate the ways in which moral orders are created and represented through multimodal interactions with artifacts as well as gesture, speech, and embodied actions.

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社会动态中的定位理论、体现和对象的道德秩序：定位理论如何忽视身体和人工认知

罗姆·哈雷 (Rom Harré) 的作品在关注话语产生的社会事件的动态方面具有开创性。特别是，Harré 及其同事介绍和阐述的定位理论侧重于检查演讲和其他行为以考虑定位和故事情节。定位理论家还考虑了塑造和受社会互动影响的权利和义务的变化模式。在本文中，我们简要回顾了定位理论。然后，我们回顾了对定位理论的两种批评——定位学者忽视了现实世界、自然数据，定位理论过分强调以语言为中心的交流（例如，口语、写作）。借鉴 Harré 及其合作者的一些早期观察，我们敦促考虑人为和具体的立场。超越对话交互，我们考虑如何分析个人产生的具体动作和工件。该论文包括基于数据的示例，其中包含与儿童工程素养俱乐部中的人工制品和多模式通信相关的具身交互。这些示例展示了通过与人工制品以及手势、言语和具体行为的多模态交互来创建和表示道德秩序的方式。