April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
15h 52m
English
We noted in Chapter 2 that work on spoken language has always been pushed in the direction of multimodality (cf. Pike 1967; Birdwhistell 1970). It is for this reason that the area is the most common direction explicitly addressed in terms of ‘multimodality’ at all. In fact, when engaging with the work of several of the communities working on natural, contextualised occurrences of spoken language, one would gain the impression that this topic and ‘multimodality’ are synonyms: ‘multimodal communication’ in this context means the study of face-to-face interaction situation! As we can see from this book, however, this is far from actually being the case: multimodality is a far broader topic. Nevertheless, it ...
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