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Description: In Conversation Analysis, the term mobility is used in the context of how social participants talk and interact while moving from one place to another. Conversation Analytic work on mobility focuses specifically on whole-body movement through space and is thus distinct from analyses of body part movements (e.g., gestures or shifts in body orientation). It also embraces not just walking bodies, but bodies that are being transported or conducting various forms of transportation.