Couper-Kuhlen2018
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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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