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The study examines the use of material objects constituting material-bodily actions in explanation sequences in construction-site interactions. Using multimodal Conversation Analysis as a method, it investigates the explanatory role of such actions and their sequential environments, comparing their application with gestural depiction. The analysis demonstrates that material-bodily actions are employed when the matter of explanation requires a focus on the details of prerequisite manual actions and when additional troubles emerge during the explanation. By using material-bodily actions, speakers direct recipients' attention to the salience of spatial accuracy to ensure understanding of the procedural order. The study discusses the interactional differences between gestural depiction and the employment of material objects as explanatory resources.
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This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.
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