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Action and embodiment within situated human interaction

Charles Goodwin
- 01 Sep 2000 - 
- Vol. 32, Iss: 10, pp 1489-1522
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In this article, it is argued that human action is built through the simultaneous deployment of a range of quite different kinds of semiotic resources, such as graphic fields of various types, without which the constitution of particular kinds of action being invoked through talk would be impossible.
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This article is published in Journal of Pragmatics.The article was published on 2000-09-01. It has received 2196 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Action (philosophy) & Sign (semiotics).

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Participation, stance and affect in the organization of activities

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the organization of embodied participation frameworks, stance and affect using as data a sequence in which a father is helping his daughter do homework, through the way in which they position their bodies toward both each other and the homework sheet that is the focus of their work the two contest the interactive and cognitive organization of the activity they are pursuing together.
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Visible embodiment: Gestures as simulated action

TL;DR: This work argues that gestures emerge from perceptual and motor simulations that underlie embodied language and mental imagery, and proposes the gestures-as-simulated-action framework to explain how gestures might arise from an embodied cognitive system.
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Spaces of multilingualism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that multilingualism is not what individuals have and don't have, but what the environment, as structured determinations and interactional emergence, enables and disables.
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Writing in Multimodal Texts: A Social Semiotic Account of Designs for Learning

TL;DR: In this article, the authors sketch a social semiotic account that aims to elucidate such principles and permits consideration of their epistemological as well as social/pedagogic significance.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this article. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

Alice Koller, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1970 - 
TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this paper. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.