Gesture's community

Social organization in multimodal conduct

Bibliographic Data

ID2905409
AuthorsG Matoesian (0000-0003-4774-5408, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume41
Issue3
Pages365-391
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404512000292
OpenAlexW2038504505
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited47

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