Toward a Typology of Activities: Understanding Internal Contradictions in Multiperspectival Activities

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dc.creatorSpinuzzi, Clayen
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-10T18:54:08Zen
dc.date.available2015-02-10T18:54:08Zen
dc.date.issued2015-01en
dc.descriptionAt the time of publication C. Spinuzzi was at the University of Texas at Austin.en
dc.description.abstractProfessional writing scholars have often turned to activity theory (AT) as a rich framework for describing and theorizing human activity. But AT-based studies typically emphasize the uniqueness of activities rather than examining how certain types of activities share configurations. Consequently, these analyses often miss the chance to examine activities’ internal contradictions that are a result of interference between different configurations of activity. This article argues that a typology of activities can deepen our understanding of these internal contradictions. Drawing from a range of literature, it describes the general characteristics of different types of activities, providing examples from other AT-based studies. It concludes by discussing how this typology can help such studies to better analyze internal contradictions in activities.en
dc.description.departmentWritingen
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Business and Technical Communication January 2015 vol. 29 no. 1 3-35en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1050651914548277en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/28410en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherJournal of Business and Technical Communicationen
dc.subjectActivity theoryen
dc.subjectInternal contradictionsen
dc.subjectObjectsen
dc.subjectTypologyen
dc.titleToward a Typology of Activities: Understanding Internal Contradictions in Multiperspectival Activitiesen
dc.typeArticleen

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