A multimodal approach to coordination in spontaneous conversation
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Manon Lelandais
Abstract
This chapter proposes a constructional framework that includes the verbal, vocal, and gestural modalities to describe coordination in conversation. I suggest a definition for coordination that is not modality-specific, and provide a detailed analysis of two coordinate structures from a corpus of spontaneous speech in British English that illustrates this definition. To assess its implications, a series of exploratory analyses investigating a relationship between discourse sequence type and coordination was carried out. This study is the first step into a new model for coordination that contributes to the development of a cognitive-linguistic approach to multimodal and interactional features of language use.
Abstract
This chapter proposes a constructional framework that includes the verbal, vocal, and gestural modalities to describe coordination in conversation. I suggest a definition for coordination that is not modality-specific, and provide a detailed analysis of two coordinate structures from a corpus of spontaneous speech in British English that illustrates this definition. To assess its implications, a series of exploratory analyses investigating a relationship between discourse sequence type and coordination was carried out. This study is the first step into a new model for coordination that contributes to the development of a cognitive-linguistic approach to multimodal and interactional features of language use.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Grammar and multimodality 1
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Part I. Challenges for multimodal Construction Grammar; conventionality and integration of multimodal features
- Construction Grammar, multimodal communication, and design features of language 26
- Multimodality, conventionality and inheritance in dialogic constructions 38
- Utterance comprehension in spontaneous speech 69
- The prosody of list constructions 116
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Part II. Multimodal aspects of constructions; language-specific features and cross-linguistic generalizations
- A multimodal approach to coordination in spontaneous conversation 154
- An evidential function of raised eyebrows in interaction 190
- Towards a functional perspective on multimodal constructions 220
- Contrastive negation constructions in Israeli Hebrew 251
- Pragmatic and prosodic aspects of the negative directive ðe mu les? (‘tell me’) in Greek conversation 285
- Subject index 313
- Constructions index 317
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Grammar and multimodality 1
-
Part I. Challenges for multimodal Construction Grammar; conventionality and integration of multimodal features
- Construction Grammar, multimodal communication, and design features of language 26
- Multimodality, conventionality and inheritance in dialogic constructions 38
- Utterance comprehension in spontaneous speech 69
- The prosody of list constructions 116
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Part II. Multimodal aspects of constructions; language-specific features and cross-linguistic generalizations
- A multimodal approach to coordination in spontaneous conversation 154
- An evidential function of raised eyebrows in interaction 190
- Towards a functional perspective on multimodal constructions 220
- Contrastive negation constructions in Israeli Hebrew 251
- Pragmatic and prosodic aspects of the negative directive ðe mu les? (‘tell me’) in Greek conversation 285
- Subject index 313
- Constructions index 317
