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The Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics /
F-formation
- Leelo Keevallik
- Hannah Pelikan
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Description: An F-formation (or facing formation) is a spatial-orientational organization, in which participants have arranged their bodies so that their lower bodies are turned towards a common center, such as forming a circle or a ‘horseshoe’ shape. The term was coined by Adam Kendon, who defined an F-formation as taking shape “whenever two or more people sustain a spatial and orientational relationship in which the space between them is one to which they have equal, direct, and exclusive access” (Kendon 1977: 179, 1990: 209).
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