Multimodal Layer Research Articles

Struck by speech revisited: Embodied stance in jurisdictional discourse1

This paper illustrates how stance functions as a semiotic resource that feeds into and mediates institutional context. I consider stance not only as linguistic expression but as interactive, bodily engagement, synchronized in multimodal layers of participation. Using data from a focus group interview, I examine how stance emerges in the collaborative rhythms of linguistic, paralinguistic and, most prominently, embodied conduct between speaker and listener to index socio‐cultural knowledge about the jurisdictional division of labor among legal professionals. Drawing on Charles Frake's classic ‘Struck by speech,’ I illustrate not only how a speaker strikes his listener with speech, but also how the body of the listener displays being struck.

EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF GARNETS FOR THIN FILM LASERS

Liquid Phase Epitaxy of YAG:Nd waveguides is presented. Epitaxial material is compared to Czockralski grown YAG:Nd. First laser results are given, including guided emission in a multimode layer.

On the comparative merits of FIR transmission and reflection spectroscopy in layer crystals

The comparative merits of FIR reflection and transmission spectroscopy are discussed for phonon frequency measurements in multimode layer crystals. For a typical material (single crystal GeSe 2) published discrepancies between the observed and predicted numbers of i.r. active modes are shown to be due to the experimental difficulties of obtaining suitable reflectivity samples. Polarized transmission data are reported in this material for the first time, and a much closer agreement with theory is obtained. The necessary conditions for obtaining transmission data free of spurious interference effects are determined.