Reenactments during tellings
- In this paper, we draw on German dyadic face-to-face conversations among friends in order to examine the interactional functions of gaze in reenactments, i.e. "re-presentations or depictions" (Sidnell, 2006: 377) of previously experienced or imagined events. Firstly, we show that reenactors use several different gaze patterns depending on whether the depicted original event is dialogic or non-dialogic. Secondly, we compare the use of different resources for initiating reenactments and switching roles during reenactments with regard to the interactional function of the different alternatives. Specifically, we describe a multimodal practice for switching characters during reenactments that are designed to invite laughter. In sum, the findings add to our knowledge about the various communicative functions of gaze in social interaction.
| Author details: | Martin PfeifferORCiDGND, Clarissa WeissGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.11.017 |
| ISSN: | 0378-2166 |
| ISSN: | 1879-1387 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of pragmatics : an interdisciplinary journal of language studies |
| Subtitle (German): | using gaze for initiating reenactments, switching roles and representing events |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/01/20 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2023/05/23 |
| Tag: | Gaze; Gesture; Prosody; Quotative; Reenactment; Storytelling |
| Volume: | 189 |
| Number of pages: | 22 |
| First page: | 92 |
| Last Page: | 113 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
