Interaction by inscription
- This paper investigates uses of inscriptions — graphic acts and the marks resulting from them — as rhetorical and socio-symbolic devices in face-to-face interaction. The analysis of a business-negotiation between two German entrepreneurs reveals that the integration of inscriptions and talk often yields hybrid symbols: while signifying within an instrumental domain such as record-keeping or accounting, they may simultaneously participate in the ‘mise-en-scène’ of conversational action or serve as metaphoric ‘graphic gestures’. Reconstructing these local meanings of inscriptions requires close analysis of the co-ordination of talk and graphic activity, of the movement patterns of graphic acts, and of the visual gestalt of graphic marks. The paper ends with a discussion of inscriptions as turn-construction units.
Author: | Werner Kallmeyer, Jürgen Streeck |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00126-5 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of Pragmatics |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2001 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2016/11/28 |
Tag: | Conversation analysis; Conversational rhetoric; Gestures; Nonverbal communication; Writing |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 4 |
First Page: | 465 |
Last Page: | 490 |
Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen online nicht frei zugänglich |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | nein |
Licence (German): | ![]() |