Words and Things: The Affordance of Things

In the two previous chapters, we explored how supportsupport can be organized through directives, both with words and as embodied directivesdirectivesembodied directives sometimes in the formintercorporeality/intercoporealintercorporeal interaction of intercorporeal interactioninteraction/interactional. In this and the next chapter, we will change focus a bit and look at how the organization of the physical environment matters for support and communicationcommunication.