Multimodality Interaction And Turn Taking In Mandarin Conversation

Author : Xiaoting Li
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270535

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Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation by Xiaoting Li Pdf

One major feature of conversation is that people take turns to speak. Based on audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring Mandarin conversation, this book explores the role of syntax, prosody, body movements as well as their interplay in turn organization in the temporal unfolding of action and interaction. Adopting the methodology of interactional linguistics, this book offers a fine-grained analysis of the three multimodal resources and the sequential environments in which they appear. It demonstrates that syntax, prosody and body movements not only converge but also diverge in projecting possible turn completion. As one of the few systematic studies of multimodality in Mandarin interaction, this book will be of interest to researchers in Chinese linguistics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and multimodal analysis.

Author : Xiaoting Li,Tsuyoshi Ono
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110460513

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Multimodality in Chinese Interaction by Xiaoting Li,Tsuyoshi Ono Pdf

This book meets the demands of scholars of Chinese linguistics as well as researchers on multimodality from a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective. It sheds new light on the traditional study of Chinese discourse and grammar. The volume brings together leading scholars working on the state-of-the-art research on this topic from all over the world, contributing to the understanding of the multimodal nature of human interaction at large.

Author : Xiaoting Li,Tsuyoshi Ono
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110462395

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Multimodality in Chinese Interaction by Xiaoting Li,Tsuyoshi Ono Pdf

This book meets the demands of scholars of Chinese linguistics as well as researchers on multimodality from a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective. It sheds new light on the traditional study of Chinese discourse and grammar. The volume brings together leading scholars working on the state-of-the-art research on this topic from all over the world, contributing to the understanding of the multimodal nature of human interaction at large.

Author : Chris Shei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351819398

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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis by Chris Shei Pdf

Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.

Author : Antonio Bova,Lise Haddouk,Carlo Galimberti,Francesco Arcidiacono
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832519967

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Discourse, conversation and argumentation: Theoretical perspectives and innovative empirical studies, volume II by Antonio Bova,Lise Haddouk,Carlo Galimberti,Francesco Arcidiacono Pdf

Author : Xuehua Xiang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258939

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Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction by Xuehua Xiang Pdf

Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace analyzes multimodal talk-in-interaction in the traditional marketplace as both an economic mechanism and a localized social space. Focusing on how buyers and sellers interact to complete transactions as marketplace shifts from sedimentations of road-side peddling to centralized built space and further to corporate e-commerce, Xiang takes into account the Janus nature of language as both incurring transaction costs and a powerful tool of information and control. By analyzing the socializing functions of language in the marketplace outside of and beyond economic dealings, the study additionally documents and depicts the roles of affect and morality in marketplace encounters. The study offers an overarching framework for future research on the mediating role of language and multimodal interaction in economic activities as well as on the interplay of information, knowledge, affect and morality in social encounters.

Author : Rebecca Clift
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521198509

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Conversation Analysis by Rebecca Clift Pdf

The first linguistics-based textbook on conversation analysis, illuminating the universals of interaction across a rich array of languages.

Author : Theresa Neumaier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108943093

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Conversation in World Englishes by Theresa Neumaier Pdf

Turn-taking is a fascinating feature of conversational interaction, due to its systematic and ordered nature. However, research has so far focused mainly on American and British conversations, with other varieties of English receiving much less attention. This pioneering book addresses this gap by exploring turn-taking patterns and cultural variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English. Bringing together research from the fields of Conversation Analysis and World Englishes for the first time, Neumaier conducts an empirical study based on authentic audio data of interactions in these global varieties of English, and demonstrates that conversational strategies differ between speaker groups with different cultural backgrounds. Shedding new light on the impact of cultural and sociolinguistic factors on conversational patterns, it is essential reading for advanced students and scholars interested in language, variation, and social interaction, as well as those working in the fields of Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, and World Englishes.

Author : Yun Xiao,Linda Tsung
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262981

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Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse by Yun Xiao,Linda Tsung Pdf

This volume features a discourse empirical orientation from diverse perspectives and various methodologies, in which narratives, interviews, surveys, and large-scale databases or self-created written and spoken corpora are employed and analyzed to gain a better understanding of new developments and changes in Chinese language and discourse. Authors employ updated approaches from a variety of fields, including applied linguistics, functional linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics, to describe the structure of Chinese language and discourse and to examine its critical issues, many focusing on globalization-induced language developments and changes. With an empirically-based discourse/socio-cultural approach, this collection makes valuable contributions to research on Chinese language and discourse and serves as a sound reference for Chinese researchers and educators in diverse fields such as Chinese language and discourse, Chinese linguistics and language education, Chinese multiculturalism, and more.

Author : FANG Mei
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003850281

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Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar by FANG Mei Pdf

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure of real discourse materials. Taking discourse functional grammar as its theoretical orientation, the book combines relevant theories with Chinese practice to work on a number of topics, including discourse phenomena and syntactic integration, the information status and discourse function of special syntactic structures, the emergence of discourse functions of metadiscourse components, and stylistic differences and their syntactic manifestations. Syntactic-semantic laws and discourse functions are examined in relation to each other, which better reveals their inner connection; a focus on the shaping of grammatical structures by interactional factors brings to light the functional motivations behind grammatical rules. In contrast to traditional Chinese grammar research, which takes individual simple or complex sentences as the object of study, this book mainly analyses grammatical phenomena that span sentences. By broadening the scope of research, it enables further exploration of issues that are difficult to address satisfactorily at the sentence level, thus enriching the study of Chinese grammar. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of interactional linguistics, Chinese linguistics and functional grammar.

Author : Kristin Enola Gilbert,Gregory Matoesian
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260208

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Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups by Kristin Enola Gilbert,Gregory Matoesian Pdf

Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However, there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving beyond a narrow preoccupation with topic talk, Gilbert and Matoesian take a novel direction to focus group analysis. They address how multimodal resources – the integration of speech, gesture, gaze, and posture – orchestrate communal relations and professional identities, linking macro orders of space-time to microcosmic action in a focus group evaluation of community policing training. They conceptualize assessment as an evaluation ritual, a sociocultural reaffirmation of collective identity and symbolic maintenance of professional boundary enacted in aesthetically patterned oratory. In the wake of social unrest and citizen disillusionment with policing practice, Gilbert and Matoesian argue that processes of multimodal interaction provide a critical direction for focus group evaluation of police reforms. Their book will be of interest to researchers who study focus group interviews, gesture, language and culture, and policing reform.

Author : Elena Mihas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266118

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Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru by Elena Mihas Pdf

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the research community, the book is a focused exploration of discourse patterns of Alto Perené Arawak, with emphasis on conversational structures. The book’s methodological scaffold is based on proposals and insights from multiple research fields, such as comparative conversation analysis, sociology, interactional linguistics, documentary linguistics, anthropological linguistics, and prosodic typology. The interactional patterns of a small Arawak language of Peru are shown to share the common infrastructure reported in the organization of conversation across other languages and cultures. Yet the analysis demonstrates a variety of unique nuances in the organization of interactional behavior of Alto Perené Arawak participants. The peculiarities observed are attributed to the language-specific semiotic resources and participants’ orientation to the local cultural norms. The book’s structured examination of conversational data of a small indigenous language of South America is anticipated to be of utility to linguistic research on understudied non-Western languages.

Author : András Kertész,Edith Moravcsik,Csilla Rákosi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110540253

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Current Approaches to Syntax by András Kertész,Edith Moravcsik,Csilla Rákosi Pdf

Even though the range of phenomena syntactic theories intend to account for is basically the same, the large number of current approaches to syntax shows how differently these phenomena can be interpreted, described, and explained. The goal of the volume is to probe into the question of how exactly these frameworks differ and what if anything they have in common.Descriptions of a sample of current approaches to syntax are presented by their major practitioners (Part I) followed by their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). Given that the goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among the approaches, a checklist of issues was given to the contributors to address. The main headings are Data, Goals, Descriptive Tools, and Criteria for Evaluation. The chapters are structured uniformly allowing an item-by-item survey across the frameworks. The introduction lays out the parameters along which syntactic frameworks must be the same and how they may differ and a final paper draws some conclusions about similarities and differences.The volume is of interest to descriptive linguists, theoreticians of grammar, philosophers of science, and studies of the cognitive science of science.

Author : Lihe Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000515770

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Toward Multimodal Pragmatics by Lihe Huang Pdf

Classic pragmatic theories emphasize the linguistic aspect of illocutionary acts and forces. However, as multimodality has gained importance and popularity, multimodal pragmatics has quickly become a frontier of pragmatic studies. This book adds to this new research trend by offering a perspective of situated discourse in the Chinese context. Using the multimodal corpus approach, this study examines how speakers use multiple devices to perform illocutionary acts and express illocutionary forces. Not only does the author use qualitative analysis to study the types, characteristics, and emergence patterns of illocutionary forces, he also performs a quantitative, corpus-based analysis of the interaction of illocutionary forces, emotions, prosody, and gestures. The results show that illocutionary forces are multimodal in nature while meaning in discourse is created through an interplay of an array of modalities. Students and scholars of pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and Chinese linguistics will benefit from this title.

Author : Elisabeth Reber,Cornelia Gerhardt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319973258

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Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings by Elisabeth Reber,Cornelia Gerhardt Pdf

This edited book revisits the concept of social ‘activities’ from an interactional perspective, examining how verbal, vocal, visual-spatial and material resources are deployed by participants for meaning-making in social encounters. The eleven original chapters within this volume analyse activities based on video recordings of naturalistic and naturally occurring social encounters from face-to-face and mediated settings in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, and German. Informed primarily by the methodological approaches of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, the authors study embodiment in space and time in three distinct types of situations: objects in space, complex participation frameworks, and affiliation and alignment. Moreover, the book includes a theoretical and methodological discussion of how activities are constituted and visibly embodied in interaction. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology and linguistics in general, and face-to-face and mediated interaction in particular.