Multimodal completions
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Lorenza Mondada
Abstract
This chapter deals with the temporal deployment of multiple multimodal resources mobilized by the participants in social interaction, focussing on the emergent temporality of turns and actions. More precisely, it analyzes the participants’ mobilization of multimodal resources for achieving unit completions, showing how embodied completion is visibly achieved in an emergent way, how it is possibly revised by speakers and their co-participants as interaction unfolds in time, how embodied resources are integrated and embedded with language in a timely fashion. By so doing, the chapter reveals how participants use and configure complex multimodal Gestalts in the orderly temporal arrangement of their turns, sequences and actions. Tt shows how these multimodal Gestalts involve not only talk and gesture, but also the entire body and its movements.
Abstract
This chapter deals with the temporal deployment of multiple multimodal resources mobilized by the participants in social interaction, focussing on the emergent temporality of turns and actions. More precisely, it analyzes the participants’ mobilization of multimodal resources for achieving unit completions, showing how embodied completion is visibly achieved in an emergent way, how it is possibly revised by speakers and their co-participants as interaction unfolds in time, how embodied resources are integrated and embedded with language in a timely fashion. By so doing, the chapter reveals how participants use and configure complex multimodal Gestalts in the orderly temporal arrangement of their turns, sequences and actions. Tt shows how these multimodal Gestalts involve not only talk and gesture, but also the entire body and its movements.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Mechanisms of temporality in interaction
- The temporality of language in interaction 27
- Retrospection and Understanding in Interaction 57
- Ephemeral Grammar 95
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Temporally-structured constructions – a temporal perspective on syntactic constructions
- Temporality and the Emergence of a Construction 123
- Temporality and syntactic structure 147
- Grammar, projection and turn-organization 173
- Word Order in Time 201
- A temporally oriented perspective on connectors in interactions 237
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Temporal organization of multimodal interaction
- Multimodal completions 267
- Coordinating the temporalities of talk and dance 309
- Appendix: Transcription conventions 337
- Index 341
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Mechanisms of temporality in interaction
- The temporality of language in interaction 27
- Retrospection and Understanding in Interaction 57
- Ephemeral Grammar 95
-
Temporally-structured constructions – a temporal perspective on syntactic constructions
- Temporality and the Emergence of a Construction 123
- Temporality and syntactic structure 147
- Grammar, projection and turn-organization 173
- Word Order in Time 201
- A temporally oriented perspective on connectors in interactions 237
-
Temporal organization of multimodal interaction
- Multimodal completions 267
- Coordinating the temporalities of talk and dance 309
- Appendix: Transcription conventions 337
- Index 341
