Sylwester Orzechowski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sylwester Orzechowski plays a role.
Articles
2017 Adaptors and the turn-taking mechanism: The distribution of adaptors relative to turn borders in dyadic conversation Interaction Studies 18:2, pp. 276–298 | Article
Turn-taking – the coordinated and efficient transition between the roles of sender and receiver in communication – is a fundamental property of conversational interaction. The turn-taking mechanism depends on a variety of linguistic factors related to syntax, semantics and prosody, which have… read more
2016 Visible movements of the orofacial area: Evidence for gestural or multimodal theories of language evolution? Gesture 15:2, pp. 250–282 | Article
The age-old debate between the proponents of the gesture-first and speech-first positions has returned to occupy a central place in current language evolution theorizing. The gestural scenarios, suffering from the problem known as “modality transition” (why a gestural system would have changed… read more