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Interestingly, three students (12,8%) thought that the drawing was a
representation of society in the seventies. One of them commented that
‘the society realized that smoking was bad, but has already surrendered to
destiny’, the other one that the drawing ‘represents people dissatisfied with
the system’.
What is even more interesting is the fact that most of the respondents
substantiated their claims not with the maggot on the hook in the fish’s
mouth, but by the expression on the fish’s ‘face’. Here are some qualifiers
they used for the expression of the fish’s face in relation with the maggot on
the hook (and further, social situation at large):
- sad expression
- indifferent eyes
- bored and apathetic fish
- bored and indifferent gaze
- dead face
- sad gaze
- angry gaze
- unsatisfied expression
- boredom and discontent
- not in good mood
- reluctant and angry
- without emotions
- sad eyes.
This shifting focus from the (1) maggot on the hook to the (2) ‘facial
expression’ of the fish, while (3) keeping in mind the info from the instruc-
tions that the drawing is from the seventies is a perfect proof that the de-
cision about the meaning of the drawing was reached through enchronic
analysis, something I argued for in previous chapter on purely theoretical
grounds. Just a reminder what enchronic analysis is:
Enchronic analysis is concerned with relations between data from
neighbouring moments, adjacent units of behaviour in locally co-
herent communicative sequences (Enfield 2009: 10).
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Interestingly, three students (12,8%) thought that the drawing was a
representation of society in the seventies. One of them commented that
‘the society realized that smoking was bad, but has already surrendered to
destiny’, the other one that the drawing ‘represents people dissatisfied with
the system’.
What is even more interesting is the fact that most of the respondents
substantiated their claims not with the maggot on the hook in the fish’s
mouth, but by the expression on the fish’s ‘face’. Here are some qualifiers
they used for the expression of the fish’s face in relation with the maggot on
the hook (and further, social situation at large):
- sad expression
- indifferent eyes
- bored and apathetic fish
- bored and indifferent gaze
- dead face
- sad gaze
- angry gaze
- unsatisfied expression
- boredom and discontent
- not in good mood
- reluctant and angry
- without emotions
- sad eyes.
This shifting focus from the (1) maggot on the hook to the (2) ‘facial
expression’ of the fish, while (3) keeping in mind the info from the instruc-
tions that the drawing is from the seventies is a perfect proof that the de-
cision about the meaning of the drawing was reached through enchronic
analysis, something I argued for in previous chapter on purely theoretical
grounds. Just a reminder what enchronic analysis is:
Enchronic analysis is concerned with relations between data from
neighbouring moments, adjacent units of behaviour in locally co-
herent communicative sequences (Enfield 2009: 10).
110
