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This collection brings together a range of perspectives on multimodal communication in intercultural interaction, bridging cognitive, social, and functional approaches towards promoting cross-disciplinary dialogues and taking research at the intersections of these fields into new directions.
The volume assembles conversationalist, socially oriented, cognitive, and sensory approaches in considering culture as a dynamic construct, co-constituted and (re)negotiated among participants in interaction and filtering it through a multimodal lens, drawing on a range of examples, such as educational settings or online video platforms. Each chapter offers a unique perspective on "culture" and "intercultural," while also situating their own definitions of these labels against those of the other chapters. Taken together, the chapters form a fluid conversation on the nature of intercultural encounters in today's globalizsd world, as digital environments intertwine with the physical mobility of people, encouraging researchers across these fields to adopt a more holistic multimodal perspective to approach intercultural interaction.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in intercultural communication, multimodality, sociolinguistics, cognitive and interactional linguistics, and semiotics.
Contents
Table of Contents
Contributor Information
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1. Introduction: Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction 3
Ulrike Schröder, Elisabetta Adami, and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
PART 1: CONCEPTUALISING MULTIMODALITY IN INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION *
Chapter 2. Multimodality and the issue of culture: A social semiotic perspective onto the interculturality of communication *
Elisabetta Adami
Chapter 3. Rhythmic bodies: Sensorial multimodality, entrainment, and intercultural communication *
Sachi Sekimoto
PART 2: ANALYSING MULTIMODALITY IN INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION *
Chapter 4. Methodological aspects of the analysis of co-speech gestures in intercultural interactions *
Anna Ladilova
Chapter 5. Identity construction through multimodal positioning in intercultural interaction *
Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain and Kerry Sluchinski
PART 3: DOING MULTIMODALITY IN INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION *
Chapter 6. Modal particles in multimodal language use: Towards a cognitive, comparative and intercultural approach to GFL teaching *
Ulrike Schröder
Chapter 7. The multimodal positioning of (future) multilingual teachers of EFL *
Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Adriana Fernandes Barbosa
Chapter 8. Taboos and euphemisms in foreign language conversations: a multimodal analysis of talk-in-interaction *
Fernanda Roque Amendoeira and Thiago da Cunha Nascimento
Chapter 9. Semiosis and ethicality in youth transnational digital storytelling *
Emilee Moore, Margaret R. Hawkins, Júlia Llompart, and Claudia Vallejo
Chapter 10. Intercultural communication in YouTubers' gameplay video: A social semiotic perspective *
Weimin Toh, Fei Victor Lim, and Elisabetta Adami
Chapter 11. Concluding remarks 190
Ulrike Schröder, Elisabetta Adami, and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
Index
