Publications

Publication details [#61730]

Mondada, Lorenza. 2016. Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20 (3) : 336–366.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | communicative function | conversational analysis | language use | social interaction

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper regards language and bodily movement as holistically and situatedly used social interaction modalities, shunning off a logo-centric communication perspective. Illustrative conversation analyses focus on classic (deixis) and more novel topics (like mobility and sensoriality).