TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Deppermann, Arnulf
A1  - Gubina, Alexandra
T1  - When the body belies the words: embodied agency with darf/kann ich? (“may/can I?”) in German
JF  - Frontiers in Communication
N2  - Research on multimodal interaction has shown that simultaneity of embodied behavior and talk is constitutive for social action. In this study, we demonstrate different temporal relationships between verbal and embodied actions. We focus on uses of German darf/kann ich? (“may/can I?”) in which speakers initiate, or even complete the embodied action that is addressed by the turn before the recipient’s response. We argue that through such embodied conduct, the speaker bodily enacts high agency, which is at odds with the low deontic stance they express through their darf/kann ich?-TCUs. In doing so, speakers presuppose that the intersubjective permissibility of the action is highly probable or even certain. Moreover, we demonstrate how the speaker’s embodied action, joint perceptual salience of referents, and the projectability of the action addressed with darf/kann ich? allow for a lean syntactic design of darf/kann ich?-TCUs (i.e., pronominalization, object omission, and main verb omission). Our findings underscore the reflexive relationship between lean syntax, sequential organization and multimodal conduct.
KW  - multimodal interaction
KW  - agency
KW  - lean syntax
KW  - intersubjectivity
KW  - request
KW  - Interaktion
KW  - Körpersprache
KW  - Nichtverbale Kommunikation
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Intersubjektivität
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - projection
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - interactional linguistics
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-104539
SN  - 2297-900X
SS  - 2297-900X
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.661800
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.661800
N1  - Dieser Beitrag wurde mit Mitteln des Publikationsfonds für Artikel in Open-Access-Zeitschriften der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft gefördert.
VL  - 6
SP  - 16
S1  - 16
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -