Publications

Publication details [#38986]

Paris, Rainer. 1985. On leaning back. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (5) : 591–593.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | interaction | meaning | pragmatics | situation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the situational and pragmatic meaning of the bodily posture of leaning back. The main question is how this meaning changes during the variable interaction course.