Keevallik2013a

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Keevallik2013a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Keevallik2013a
Author(s) Leelo Keevallik
Title The interdependence of bodily demonstrations and clausal syntax
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Tag(s) EMCA, Interactional Linguistics, Body movement, Grammar
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Year 2013
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 46
Number 1
Pages 1–21
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2013.753710
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Abstract

Units in interaction are emergent real-time phenomena that can be accomplished by the coordinated deployment of language and the body. Focusing mostly on data from dance classes, this study looks at how incomplete syntax projects a continuation realized by the body and systematically accounts for clausal syntax that can incorporate an embodied demonstration. It is argued that the classic list of types of turn constructional units by Sacks et al. (1974) needs to be expanded with a syntactic-bodily one and that the syntax of embodied demonstrations has to be included in the grammatical description of language.

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