GLO-LO Video Corpus Part 2 is part of a broader Video Corpus of talk and interaction collected as part of the research project Globalizing construction work and local language practices. The project investigates local language practices at construction sites in Finland and analyses how construction workers coordinate their work tasks by using linguistic and bodily resources. The research method used is multimodal conversation analysis. The results of the project provide new insights into the role of language in the organization of physical and manual work. GLO-LO Video Corpus Part 2 includes video recordings collected at a site in which a part of a larger building is being renovated. The video recordings focus on the work interactions of a group of builders, plumbers, electricians, and ventilation installers. There are 15 focal participants in the data set. The primary language of the interactions is Finnish, though English is also used occasionally. The video recordings began in July 2021 and continued until October 2021. Work interactions were captured using two to three cameras. One or two of the cameras were hand-held by researchers collecting the data, while one was placed on a tripod. One of the hand-held cameras was connected to the microphones worn by the focal workers. The researcher operating this camera followed the workers and captured their work interactions. The camera placed on the tripod filmed a wider view of the construction site, and it was not connected to external microphones. The work interactions were filmed on 23 different days, and the corpus includes a total of 114 hours of video recordings (approximately 1 terabyte). The recordings were supplemented with ethnographic fieldnotes written by the researchers who recorded the interactions. The researchers wrote ethnographic fieldnotes based on their observations of interaction and language use, as well as the progress of the work. The researchers also took photographs during the fieldwork.

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