Multimodality in Chinese Interaction
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2019
VI, 335 pages
978-3-11-046239-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
91 ill., 9 tbl.
File size
2,98 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-046239-5 (9783110462395)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Xiaoting Li & Tsuyoshi Ono, University of Alberta, Canada.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: A multimodal approach to Chinese interaction
- Part I: Theory and methodology
- Multimodality and the study of Chinese talk-in-interaction
- Researching multimodality in Chinese interaction: a methodological account
- Part II: Multimodal practices
- List gestures in Mandarin conversation and their implications for understanding multimodal interaction
- He Hand gestures and emergent speakership: A study of turn competition and gesticulation in Cantonese conversation
- Grounding and gestural repetition in Chinese conversational interaction
- Embodying stance: wo juede 'I feel/think' and gaze
- Part III: Multimodal organization of talk and interaction
- Multimodal turn construction in Mandarin conversation - Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in the construction of sytactically incomplete turns
- On co-operative modalities in the formulation of Mandarin Chinese turn-continuations
- Self-repair in Mandarin Chinese: The multimodality of conversation
- A multimodal analysis of tag questions in Mandarin Chinese multi-party conversation
- Index
