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Multimodality in Chinese Interaction / ed. by Tsuyoshi Ono, Xiaoting Li.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 34Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (VI, 335 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110460339
  • 9783110460513
  • 9783110462395
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- 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
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- 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 -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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