Understanding as an embodied, situated and sequential achievement in interaction

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 542-552

  Mondada, Lorenza ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

Accountability; Conversation analysis; Embodiment; Ethnomethodology; Multimodality; Sequentiality; Social interaction; Time; Understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649636533     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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