Couper-Kuhlen2018

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Couper-Kuhlen2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Couper-Kuhlen2018
Author(s) Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Title Finding a place for body movement in grammar
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Tag(s) EMCA, body, grammar, multimodality
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 51
Number 1
Pages 22–25
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2018.1413888
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Abstract

Keevallik's impressive survey of how body movements affect grammatical choices is a timely reminder that language use in social interaction does not occur in a vacuum. Yet although body movements can be intercalated in complex ways with the grammatical structure of utterances, I argue here that they are not part of grammar in a strict sense of the word. In “composite” utterances they fill slots that grammatical structures create, without being grammatical elements themselves.

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