Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Fundamentals of Sociopragmatics
- Part II Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
- 13 Face, Facework and Face-Threatening Acts
- 14 Relationships and Relating
- 15 Analysing Identity
- 16 (Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics
- 17 Affect and Emotion
- 18 Power
- 19 Morality in Sociopragmatics
- 20 Conversational Humour
- 21 Gesture and Prosody in Multimodal Communication
- 22 Digitally Mediated Communication
- 23 Workplace and Institutional Discourse
- 24 Service Encounter Discourse
- 25 Argumentative, Political and Legal Discourse
- 26 The Pragmatics of Translation
- Part III Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics
- Index
- References
21 - Gesture and Prosody in Multimodal Communication
from Part II - Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Fundamentals of Sociopragmatics
- Part II Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
- 13 Face, Facework and Face-Threatening Acts
- 14 Relationships and Relating
- 15 Analysing Identity
- 16 (Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics
- 17 Affect and Emotion
- 18 Power
- 19 Morality in Sociopragmatics
- 20 Conversational Humour
- 21 Gesture and Prosody in Multimodal Communication
- 22 Digitally Mediated Communication
- 23 Workplace and Institutional Discourse
- 24 Service Encounter Discourse
- 25 Argumentative, Political and Legal Discourse
- 26 The Pragmatics of Translation
- Part III Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics
- Index
- References
Summary
Whereas sociopragmatics as a field has been dominated by the analysis of verbal elements, this chapter adopts the perspective that sociopragmatic meanings are communicated in a multimodal fashion that encompasses prosody, gesture and other forms of nonverbal expression. We provide an overview of how prosodic and gestural means are employed for signalling information status, for marking the internal organization of speech and for communicating epistemic stance, (im)politeness, irony and speaker identity. This overview shows that prosody is closely integrated with gesture both at the temporal level and in the kinds of pragmatic meanings that these two systems are used to encode. We thus adopt the position, following the tenets of audiovisual prosody, that prosody and gesture can be considered as sister systems in the marking of sociopragmatic meanings in human communication.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics , pp. 430 - 453Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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