Language and Multimodality in Social Interactions

Keiko Tsuchiya is a Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the School of Liberal Arts and International Studies at Yokohama City University, Japan. She received an MA in English Language Teaching from Nottingham Trent University, and a PhD in English Studies from Nottingham University, UK. She recently spent her sabbatical in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as a research fellow of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour/Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Her expertise includes discourse studies, pragmatics, and multimodal analysis, and its application to social interactions, such as health communication.

• Chapter 1. Language and Multimodality in Social Interaction.- Chapter 2. Multimodal Discourse Analysis.- Chapter 3. Multimodal Corpus Studies.- Chapter 4. Conversation Analysis.- Chapter 5. Gesture Studies.- Chapter 6. Human Multimodal Communication.- Chapter 7. Multimodal Interaction Research – Quo Vadis?.