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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455982703321

Autore

Norris Sigrid <1961->

Titolo

Identity in (inter)action [[electronic resource] ] : introducing multimodal (inter)action analysis / / by Sigrid Norris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter Mouton, 2011

ISBN

1-283-39633-5

9786613396334

1-934078-28-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Trends in applied linguistics, , 1868-6362 ; ; 4

Classificazione

ER 990

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Interpersonal communication

Oral communication

Social interaction

Discourse analysis - Germany

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis -- Chapter 2 Identity in (Inter)action: Theoretical Concepts -- Chapter 3 Collecting and Transcribing Ethnographic Data: A Case Study of Two Women Living in Germany -- Chapter 4 Modal Density, Actions, and Identity -- Chapter 5 Horizontal Identity Production; and Mastery and Appropriation of Identity Elements -- Chapter 6 Vertical Identity Production -- Chapter 7 Shifting Identity, Saliency of Identity, and Identity Change -- Chapter 8 Stabilizing Identity -- Chapter 9 Investigating Identity in (Inter)action -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this monograph, the author offers a new way of examining the much discussed notion of identity through the theoretical and methodological approach called multimodal interaction analysis. Moving beyond a traditional discourse analysis focus on spoken language, this book expands our understanding of identity construction by looking both at language and its intersection with such paralinguistic features as gesture, as well as how we use space in interaction. The author



illustrates this new approach through an extended ethnographic study of two women living in Germany. Examples of their everyday interactions elucidate how multimodal interaction analysis can be used to extend our understanding of how identity is produced and negotiated in context from a more holistic point of view.