A multimodal approach to coordination in spontaneous conversation
Résumé
This chapter proposes a constructional framework that includes the verbal, vocal, and gestural modalities to describe coordination in conversation. I suggest a definition for coordination that is not modality-specific, and provide a detailed analysis of two coordinate structures from a corpus of spontaneous speech in British English that illustrates this definition. To assess its implications, a series of exploratory analyses investigating a relationship between discourse sequence type and coordination was carried out. This study is the first step into a new model for coordination that contributes to the development of a cognitive-linguistic approach to multimodal and interactional features of language use.