Elisabeth Zima

Biographic Data

ID1065508
NAMEElisabeth Zima
GIVEN NAMESElisabeth
FAMILY NAMEZima
SIGNATUREZIMA E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Freiburg
ORCID0000-0001-7347-3835
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Does gaze aversion index dispreference or complexity of upcoming answers to questions

    Open AccessPeter Auer, Elisabeth ZimaARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2026

    What counts as a preferred or dispreferred answer to a question and how can it be recognized? These questions have been widely discussed in conversation analysis in recent years, and some well-established diagnostic features of dispreferred answers have been identified. In this paper, we turn to a less well-established feature: gaze aversion. Kendrick and Holler (2017) have previously suggested that answers to polar questions that invert the ques…

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar

    Open AccessY Matsumoto, Hans C Boas et al.BOOKThe Cambridge Handbook of…2025

    Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its conceptual origins and the basic ideas that unite its various branches, its solid empirical grounding and affinities wi…

  • Disaffiliierende Bewertungen und Haltungsbekundungen in Er-zählaktivitäten – eine multimodale Analyse

    Open AccessSophie Bröker, Elisabeth ZimaARTICLELinguistik Online2022

    This paper deals with multimodal displays of non-affiliative stances and assessments in face-to-face triadic storytelling activities. Building on conversational analytical research that has highlighted the co-constructed nature of storytelling activities and the intersubjective nature of stance-taking, this paper takes a multimodal perspective and focusses on how interactants use language, prosody, gaze, and gestures to express stances that are n…

  • Erzählen als multimodale Aktivität – zur Einführung in das Themenheft

    Open AccessElisabeth Zima, Clarissa WeißARTICLELinguistik Online2020

    This special issue of Linguistik online is dedicated to the study of storytelling in face-to-face interaction. More specifically, the individual contributions to this special issue approach conversational storytelling from a multimodal perspective and provide analyses on the fine-grained coordination of verbal, para-verbal, and nonverbal action in face-to-face storytelling. This introduction first frames the individual contributions by providing …

  • Gaze and Recipient Feedback in Triadic Storytelling Activities

    Elisabeth ZimaARTICLEDiscourse Processes2020Cited by: 2References: 34

    This article focuses on the relationship between gaze and recipient feedback in triadic storytelling activities. Our starting point to investigate this relationship is an article by Bavelas et al. (2002), who report a statistically significant interaction between feedback and so-called gaze windows in dyadic storytelling activities. The pattern they found involves three interdependent phases: a narrator shifts gaze to a recipient to elicit feedba…

  • Gaze and overlap resolution in triadic interactions

    Open AccessElisabeth Zima, Clarissa Weiß et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2019Cited by: 9References: 32

  • Zum Konzept der Gestenresonanz in der Dialogischen Syntax

    Open AccessElisabeth ZimaCHAPTERResonanz - Rhythmus - Synchronisier…2017

  • On the multimodality of [all the way from X PREP Y]

    Open AccessElisabeth ZimaARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2017

    This paper presents a case study on the English construction [all the way from X PREP Y] and its co-occurrence with manual gestures in multimodal television data from the Red Hen database

  • Multimodality and construction grammar

    Elisabeth Zima, Alexander Berg et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2017

    The meaning-making process in face-to-face interaction relies on the integration of meaningful information being conveyed by speech as well as the tone of voice, facial expressions, hand and head gestures, body postures and movements (McNeill 1992; Kendon 2004). Hence, it is inherently multimodal. Usage-based linguistics attributes language use a fundamental role in linguistic theorizing by positing that the language system is grounded in and abs…

  • The power of engagement: Stance-taking, dialogic resonance and the construction of intersubjectivity

    Bracha Nir, Elisabeth ZimaARTICLEFunctions of Language2017

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  • Towards a dialogic construction grammar: Ad hoc routines and resonance activation

    Open AccessGeert Brône, Elisabeth ZimaARTICLECognitive Linguistics2014Cited by: 6

    In this paper, we take a Construction Grammar approach to Du Bois' concept of resonance activation. We suggest that the structural mapping relations between juxtaposed utterances in discourse, described in terms of diagraphs in dialogic syntax, can acquire the status of ad hoc constructions or locally entrenched form-meaning pairings within the boundaries of an ongoing conversation. We argue that the local emergence of these ad hoc constructions …