Prosody and embodiment in interactional grammar / edited by Pia Bergmann ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergmann, Pia.

Series:

Linguae & litterae ; 18.

Linguae & litterae : publications of the School of Language & Literature, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 1869-7054 ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 lexico-syntactic structures. The contributions to the present volume, however, focus on prosody and embodiment, exploring the role prosody plays in interactional meaning-making and how visual-spatial resources such as gesture and gaze relate to the use of verbal and vocal resources. This volume includes contributions on Danish, English, French, German, and Swedish interaction, with a primary focus on Interactional Linguistics and additional work from multimodal corpora. This volume will be of theoretical and methodological interest to readers with a background in Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, and multimodal corpora.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of contents

Towards an Interactional Grammar / Bergmann, Pia / Brenning, Jana / Pfeiffer, Martin / Reber, Elisabeth

I Prosody

Prosodic formats of relative clauses in spoken German / Birkner, Karin

What prosody reveals about the speaker's cognition: Self-repair in German prepositional phrases / Pfeiffer, Martin

Speakers' orientation to the nucleus accent in syntactic co-constructions / Brenning, Jana

The prosodic design of parentheses in spontaneous speech / Bergmann, Pia

Prosody, syntax and action formation: Intonation phrases as ›action components‹ / Szczepek Reed, Beatrice

II Embodiment

Deixis: an integrated interactional multimodal analysis / Mondada, Lorenza

Withdrawal from turns in overlap and participation / Oloff, Florence

The importance of gaze in the constitution of units in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) / Hörmeyer, Ina

III Multimodal corpora

Gesture movement profiles in dialogues from a Swedish multimodal database of spontaneous speech / Edlund, Jens / House, David / Beskow, Jonas

Towards an empirically-based grammar of speech and gestures / Paggio, Patrizia

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110295108

3110295105

OCLC:

826483042