On co-operative modalities in the formulation of Mandarin Chinese turn-continuations

• Main Author: Lim, Ni-Eng
• Other Authors: Li, Xiaoting
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter Mouton 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics; Humanities::Language::Chinese; Conversation Analysis; Interactional Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145804
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Multimodality (or the use of multiple resources to communicate) is not only a natural state of affairs in everyday communication, but is actually quite ubiquitous at all points within face-to-face interaction, ranging from the use of prosodic stress to denote focus, to emblematic gestures that conve...