Multimodal Conversation Analysis: Exploring the interface between talk and the body (Ringvorlesung Sprache und Kommunikation: verbal, digital, multimodal)
| Lecturer(s) | Lorenza Mondada |
| Contact person | Heike Behrens |
| heike.behrens@unibas.ch | |
| Date | Tuesday, 8th November 2022, 16:15 - 18:00 |
| Location | Universität Basel, Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120, Petersplatz 1 Basel Switzerland |
Multimodal Conversation Analysis: Exploring the interface between talk and the body (Ringvorlesung Sprache und Kommunikation: verbal, digital, multimodal)
Lorenza Mondada
Starting point and questions
- The importance of the body to make sense in social interaction
- How to consider the entire body (and not only gestures, or nods, or gaze in a separate way) in our approach of action?
- How do people identify and recognize what is going on even when they don’t know the other persons they are about to interact with?
Data
• Chance encounters in public space
• Activists approaching pedestrians to ask for support to an environmental organization
• How encounters emerge in public space, how the convergence of walking trajectories projects an imminent interaction, what are the very first words uttered?
• Both an ordinary mundane practice and an institutional practice (encountering people is a skillful practice that characterizes some professions, like street vendors, activists)
• Reveals the fundaments of communication in social interaction