When the Body Belies the Words: Embodied Agency With darf/kann ich? (“May/Can I?”) in German

Research on multimodal interaction has shown that simultaneity of embodied behavior and talk is constitutive for social action. In this study, we demonstrate different temporal relationships between verbal and embodied actions. We focus on uses of German darf/kann ich? (“may/can I?”) in which speake...

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Main Authors: Arnulf Deppermann, Alexandra Gubina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.661800/full