ABSTRACT
Like many of our colleagues, we make use of video-tape to analyze interaction which is evanescent in nature. In his description of the theoretical and methodological complexity of making informed use of filmed records in social psychological research, Kendon (1979) cautions that micro-analytic analysis must be based on a theoretical perspective involving “context analysis.” He sees context analysis as a conceptual framework which presumes that participants are not isolated senders and receivers of messages. When people are in each other’s presence, all their verbal and nonverbal behaviors are potential sources of communication, and their
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can be understood only in relation to the immediate context, only in context: a specific context. We have chosen the pediatric setting as an exemplary context of interaction. Understanding how communication works in this context provides a model which can be applied in other contexts as well.
