Prosody and Embodiment in Interactional Grammar / / ed. by Pia Bergmann, Jana Brenning, Martin Pfeiffer, Elisabeth Reber.

Studies in Interactional Linguistics have provided impressive evidence of the systematic use of vocal, verbal, and visual resources in social interaction. While members of the field have discussed what role these resources play in a grammar of social interaction, they have focused primarily on lexic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Towards an Interactional Grammar
  • I Prosody
  • Prosodic formats of relative clauses in spoken German
  • What prosody reveals about the speaker’s cognition: Self-repair in German prepositional phrases
  • Speakers’ orientation to the nucleus accent in syntactic co-constructions
  • The prosodic design of parentheses in spontaneous speech
  • Prosody, syntax and action formation: Intonation phrases as ›action components‹
  • II Embodiment
  • Deixis: an integrated interactional multimodal analysis
  • Withdrawal from turns in overlap and participation
  • The importance of gaze in the constitution of units in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
  • III Multimodal corpora
  • Gesture movement profiles in dialogues from a Swedish multimodal database of spontaneous speech
  • Towards an empirically-based grammar of speech and gestures
  • Subject Index