Abstract
The article deals with the interpretive framework of Arndt and Janney’s Intergrammar. An intergrative modelisation of verbal, prosodic and kinesic choices in speech is proposed within the methodology of catastrophe theory in order to analyze the dynamics of the functional relationships between these unifying aspects of face-to-face communication.
Highlights
Janney outline an interpretive framework to acccount for language, prosody, and kinesics as a trimodal patterning in face-to-face interaction
In the following we shall briefly look at catastrophe theory as a methodological approach to the study of dynamic systems and introduce - in slightly more detail - to one catastrophe model in particular: the so-called butterfly, as it is by means of this model that we shall transform Arndt and Janney’s proposals into catastrophe theoretic terms
The dynamic is said to be governed by a potential function
Summary
W. Janney outline an interpretive framework to acccount for language, prosody, and kinesics as a trimodal patterning in face-to-face interaction. Janney outline an interpretive framework to acccount for language, prosody, and kinesics as a trimodal patterning in face-to-face interaction They call this theoretic and methodological approach to verbal and nonverbal communicative behavior: the Intergrammar framework. The Intergrammar presents itself as a ‘schema of hypotheses about how the conventions regulating multimodal speech choices can be plausibly explained’. The Intergrammar presents itself as a ‘schema of hypotheses about how the conventions regulating multimodal speech choices can be plausibly explained’2 In this sense it is but preliminary to ‘a unified, crossmodal, regulative grammar of speech, in which language, prosody, and. In the following we shall briefly look at catastrophe theory as a methodological approach to the study of dynamic systems and introduce - in slightly more detail - to one catastrophe model in particular: the so-called butterfly, as it is by means of this model that we shall transform Arndt and Janney’s proposals into catastrophe theoretic terms
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