Mondada2016a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Mondada2016a |
| Author(s) | Lorenza Mondada |
| Title | Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Social interaction, body, conversation analysis, language, mobility, multimodality, sensoriality, sequentiality, temporality |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Sociolinguistics |
| Volume | 20 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 336–366 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1111/josl.1_12177 |
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Abstract
This article reflects on recent challenges emerging from the study of language and the body in social interaction. There is a general interest in language and the body across disciplines that has invited a reconceptualization of the broader issues relative to action, cognition, culture, knowledge, social relations and identities, spatiality and temporality. The study of social interaction focuses on how multimodal resources – including language and bodily movements – are holistically and situatedly used in building human action. This article discusses some consequences and challenges of putting the body at the center of attention: it repositions language as one among other modalities, and invites us to consider the involvement of entire bodies in social interaction, overcoming a logo-centric vision of communication, as well as a visuo-centric vision of embodiment. These issues are developed through a series of conversation analytic studies, firstly of classic topics in linguistics like deixis, then of more recent topics, such as mobility and sensoriality.
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