Jana Holsanova:
Spatial language and dialogue: A multimodal perspective
Abstract
Reference frames, spatial relations and perspective-taking are studied in
two types of conversation: a) in a face-to-face conversation among friends
containing description, spontaneous drawing, pointing and gesturing and b)
in a task oriented conversation (a variation of a reference task) where the
partners do not see each other and where the task – to copy a figurative or
abstract picture – could only be carried out verbally. The observations and
preliminary results are connected to theories about alignment in dialogue.
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