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| Semester | spring semester 2012 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Lorenza Mondada (lorenza.mondada@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The course discusses the way in which language and gesture, and more generally embodied action, have been conceptualized together. First, it introduces some theories of gesture and their contributions to linguistics. Then, it enlarges the perspective, not only taking gesture into consideration, but a broader array of multimodal resources, such as – beside language and gesture – gaze, head movements, facial expressions, body postures and body movements. The main part of the course focuses on the use of these resources within actual communicative exchanges, that is within social interaction. It shows the coordination between gesture and turns at talk, between gaze and recipiency as well as mutual attention and joint attention on a common focus, between body movements and the organization of talk. The course also provides for some methodological inputs concerning videorecorded data and multimodal transcription (systems of annotation and specific software for alignment and annotation). It insists on the importance of actually doing multimodal analyses and will devote various lectures to data sessions in which students analyze video clips together. The course will be given in German and English. |
| Bibliography | Bibliography Bavelas, J., Chovil, N., Lawrie, D. A., & Wade, A. (1992). Interactive Gesture. Discourse Processes, 15, 469-489. Goodwin, C. (1981). Conversational Organization: Interaction Between Speakers and Hearers. New York: Academic Press. Goodwin, C. (2000). Action and embodiment within situated human interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 1489-1522. Kendon, A. (2004). Gesture. Visible Action as Utterance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. McNeill, D. (1985). So you think gestures are nonverbal? Psychology Review, 92(3), 350-371. McNeill, D. (1992). Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Mondada, L. (2007). Multimodal resources for turn-taking: Pointing and the emergence of possible next speakers. Discourse Studies, 9(2), 195-226. Schegloff, E. A. (1984). On Some Gestures' Relation to Talk. In J. M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Eds.), Structures of Social Action (pp. 266-296). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Streeck, J., C. Goodwin, C. LeBaron (eds.). (2011). Embodied Interaction, Language and Body in the Material World. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul angewandte französische Sprachwissenschaft (Bachelor's degree subject: Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft) Modul deskriptiv-synchronische französische Sprachwissenschaft (Bachelor's degree subject: Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft I (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul Sprache als System (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) Modul Sprachen und Gesellschaft (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul Sprachen und Individuum (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul Vertiefung, Wissen, Praxis (Master's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | Examination Students will be requested to do a multimodal annotation of a video clip and discuss their analytical and theoretical implications for linguistics and the analysis of multimodality. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |