Journal
JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 336-366Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/josl.1_12177
Keywords
Social interaction; multimodality; language; body; conversation analysis; temporality; sequentiality; mobility; sensoriality
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- project 'Multimodality: Reconsidering Language and Action through Embodiment' within my Finland Distinguished Professorship - Academy of Finland (SA grant) [282931]
- Swiss National Science Foundation Project 'Speaking in Public' (SNF grant) [100014_144376, 100012_162689/1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [100012_162689, 100014_144376] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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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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