Multimodality and coordinated participation in L2 interaction
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Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
Abstract
This study focuses on video-recorded language and bodily conduct (gesture, gaze and body posture) of L2 speakers in naturalistic conversations. Taking a conversation analytical approach, the chapter explores the details of ways L2 speakers manage talk, accomplish social actions and maintain intersubjectivity in non-institutional conversation. The chapter describes how L2 speakers systematically mobilize various modalities (e.g. talk, gaze, prosody, gesture), to constitute and coordinate a coherent course of action. In addition, the study illustrates how L2 speakers, while engaged in multiple repair practices, display via vocal resources (e.g. syntax, vocabulary, prosody) and embodied resources (e.g. gesture, gaze, body posture) their understanding of the nature of the problem and signal their orientation as L2 learners and members of a learners’ community.
Abstract
This study focuses on video-recorded language and bodily conduct (gesture, gaze and body posture) of L2 speakers in naturalistic conversations. Taking a conversation analytical approach, the chapter explores the details of ways L2 speakers manage talk, accomplish social actions and maintain intersubjectivity in non-institutional conversation. The chapter describes how L2 speakers systematically mobilize various modalities (e.g. talk, gaze, prosody, gesture), to constitute and coordinate a coherent course of action. In addition, the study illustrates how L2 speakers, while engaged in multiple repair practices, display via vocal resources (e.g. syntax, vocabulary, prosody) and embodied resources (e.g. gesture, gaze, body posture) their understanding of the nature of the problem and signal their orientation as L2 learners and members of a learners’ community.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Language practice in dialogue
- The complex nature of Language-related Episodes 25
- Navigating the language-learning classroom without previous schooling 49
- Multimodality and coordinated participation in L2 interaction 79
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Learning culture and identities through dialogue
- ‘ Tú no eres española ’ 107
- Exploring the complex nature of language and culture through intercultural dialogue 139
- Multilingual Eurovision meets plurilingual YouTube 167
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Learning practices of communities
- Dialogic knowledge building in learning communities 195
- Artifacts, gestures and dispensable speech 221
- Changing frames in native speaker and learner talk 253
- Transnational, transcultural, translingual communities of practice in flux 287
- About the authors 307
- Index 311
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Language practice in dialogue
- The complex nature of Language-related Episodes 25
- Navigating the language-learning classroom without previous schooling 49
- Multimodality and coordinated participation in L2 interaction 79
-
Learning culture and identities through dialogue
- ‘ Tú no eres española ’ 107
- Exploring the complex nature of language and culture through intercultural dialogue 139
- Multilingual Eurovision meets plurilingual YouTube 167
-
Learning practices of communities
- Dialogic knowledge building in learning communities 195
- Artifacts, gestures and dispensable speech 221
- Changing frames in native speaker and learner talk 253
- Transnational, transcultural, translingual communities of practice in flux 287
- About the authors 307
- Index 311
