We plan to have one presentation and one data session.
Counter to the ToM theorists, I will present one or more fragments to demonstrate that infant intentionality is neither a mental process nor a mental phenomenon that causes behavior, but rather is manifest in the infants' behavior itself. To argue against the mental status of intentions I will (attempt to) show the practical procedures by which infants intend to do, and also that intending to do has sequential implications for the caregivers, in that it the infants' intentions are interactional opportunities for caregivers to display their understanding of what is going on at the moment.
The data are drawn from a recently-transcribed, video-recorded discussion among four Japanese university students. These students are conducting a discussion in English because this is what they have been assigned to do for an English as a foreign language class. Part of the assignment was to choose a topic to discuss, and the topic they chose was dialects of Japanese. Beyond producing the transcription and choosing what part of the data to work with in the data session, I have not engaged in any analysis of the data. What aspects of the data to focus on will be decided/negotiated by the participants in the data session.
If anybody is interested in bringing their own data, analyses, observations, arguments, or whatever, to a next meeting to discuss together, please contact Aug Nishizaka at augnish(a)soc.meijigakuin.ac.jp.