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The contextualization of language / edited by Peter Auer and Aldo Di Luzio.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 22.
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Context (Linguistics).
- Nonverbal communication.
- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (420 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : J. Benjamins, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood, participants have to establish and maintain those shared contextual frames which in turn are relevant to the local interpretation of their verbal and nonverbal activities. On an empirical level, the volume contains exemplary analyses that show how pa
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Theory of contextualization
- pt. 2. Gesture and other visible behaviour
- pt. 3. Prosody.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-09275-1
- 9786613092755
- 90-272-8592-6
- OCLC:
- 713010225
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