Multimodal aspects on lists as Social Action Formats
| Panel: | P57 - Social Action Formats |
| Author: | Karlsson, Susanna |
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| The list format has been studied by, among others, Jefferson (1990), Lerner (1994), and Selting (2007). They show that speakers orient towards the list format, and that lists constitute an interactional resource for handling for example overlap and other-initiated repair. The construction and use of lists in Swedish, however, is a comparatively unexplored area. In this paper I discuss the prosodic, semantic, syntactic and gestic design of lists in Swedish. Special focus is placed on how prosody and gesture function as resources contributing to the participants’ understanding of the relationship of the respective list-items, and to the construction of the list as ONE unit. The multimodal resources are drawn upon to display the internal construction and cohesion of the list. I argue that the data indicates that there is not ONE list format, but rather FORMATS, and that the different formats are interactionally motivated. Methodologically, this study lies within the field of Interactional Linguistics, and uses a CA approach to Swedish audio- as well as video data. |
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