Embodied Interaction Language and Body in the Material World [Paperback]

Leading international scholars provide a coherent framework for analyzing body movement and talk in the production of meaning.How do we coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources such as gaze and gesture to bring about coherent and intelligible courses of action? How are physical settings, artifacts, technologies, and non-linguistic sign-systems implicated in social interaction and shared cognition? This volume brings together leading international scholars, who provide a coherent framework for analyzing the production of meaning and the organization of social interaction. Embodied Interaction is indispensable for anyone interested in the study of language and social interaction.How do we coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources such as gaze and gesture to bring about coherent and intelligible courses of action? How are physical settings, artifacts, technologies, and non-linguistic sign-systems implicated in social interaction and shared cognition? This volume brings together leading international scholars, who provide a coherent framework for analyzing the production of meaning and the organization of social interaction. Embodied Interaction is indispensable for anyone interested in the study of language and social interaction.How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources (such as gaze and gesture) to bring about coherent and intelligible courses of action? How are physical settings, artifacts, technologies, and non-linguistic sign-systems implicated in social interaction and shared cognition? This volume brings together advanced work by leading international scholars who share video-based research methods that integrate semiotic, linguistic, sociological, anthropological, and cognitive science perspectives with detailed, microanalytic observations. Collectively they provide a coherent framework for analyzing l3-