Keywords
Multimodality
Gesture
Prosody
Cognitive linguistics
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Abstract
It is still hard to find the examination of real interatcion from a cognitive, ‘embodied’ and multimodal perspective in empirical practice, concurrently maintaining the operational framework of conversation analysis. The following article aims at showing how co-participants in talk-in-interaction co-construct intercultural experience multimodally, that is, on verbal, prosodic and gestural-corporal levels. Based on two sequences taken from the ICMI corpus of the research group Intercultural Communication in Multimodal Interactions, it will be revealed how (inter)cultural conceptualizations are (co-)built by means of iconic, metaphorical and beat gestures, by gaze, posture and body movements, as well as by prosodic cues such as pitch jumps and contours, accents, volume and tempo. Concurrently, all those means serve as contextualization cues to express the interlocutors’ involvement, stance, alignment, as well as affiliation, and can be conceived as ‘points of access’ to deeper entrenched schemata related to the participant’s (inter)cultural experiences. In this sense, the study aims to gap the bridge between conversational and interactional linguistics, on the one hand, and cognitive and cultural linguistics, on the other.
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