Gesture's community

Social organization in multimodal conduct

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2905409
AutoresG Matoesian (0000-0003-4774-5408, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen41
Número3
Páginas365-391
Fecha de publicación2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404512000292
OpenAlexW2038504505
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas47

This article analyzes the multimodal integration of gesture, talk, and sociocultural context. More specifically, I investigate how forms of Gemeinschaft/Gesellshaft community are embodied in the concrete details of multimodal form-in the iconic interplay of multimodal practice and symbolic forms of social organization. Using a focus group interview of community policing training, I show how criss-crossing laminations of participation emerge through novel gestural configurations like multimodal quotation and pragmatic beats to not only pace the rhythm of speech but simultaneously plot the spatial coordinates of social organization. In the course of events, we see how speakers integrate gesture, gaze, and postural orientation into the stream of their utterances to project rhythmically infused meanings of communal identity, social solidarity, and cultural opposition. (Multimodality, community, legal discourse

Deixis · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Gaze · Gesture · Linguistics · Multimodality · Political science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Solidarity · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology