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Thompson, Sandra A. and Elise Kärkkäinen. 2018. Language and bodily resources: ‘Response packages’ in response to polar questions in English. Journal of Pragmatics 123 : 220–238.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper centers on type-conforming answers to yes/no questions as responsive actions in interaction. Affirming or disavowing responsive actions are multimodally reached. Lexical/prosodic verbal resources and bodily-visual resources happen in synchrony. Such multimodal actions constitute self-contained ‘units’ or ‘response packages’. These ‘response packages’ rely on space, mobility, stance and involved objects.