Through the looking glass: A social semiotic and linguistic perspective on the study of video chats

Text and Talk

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 325-347

  Sindoni, Maria Grazia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

digital speech; digital writing; mode switching; multimodal transcription; synchronous video based interaction; video chat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900393210     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text-2014-0006     Document Type: Article

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