Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World

by Jürgen Streeck

Book Overview

How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources (such as gaze and gesture) to bring about coherent and intelligible courses of action? How are physical settings, artifacts, technologies and non-linguistic sign-systems implicated in social interaction and shared cognition? This volume brings together advanced work by leading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107630428
• ISBN13: 9781107630420
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"