Across the social sciences, there is a wealth of research on the role of language in
persuasion in interpersonal communication. Most of these studies have been conducted in …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

Understanding of evidentials is incomplete without consideration of their behaviour in
interrogative contexts. We discuss key formal, semantic, and pragmatic features of cross …

Our work is motivated by the idea that social robots can help inclusive processes in groups
of children, focusing on the case of children who have newly arrived from a foreign country …

In “cold” sales calls, the salesperson's job is to turn call-takers, or “prospects,” into clients
while, very often, the latter resist them. In contrast to laboratory-based research,“cold” calls …

Persuasion is a ubiquitous presence in everyday life, with decades of research from across
the social sciences, and, of course, particularly within psychology. Nevertheless, in this …

This study examines the multimodal package “so” with a pointing gesture in Swiss German.
The analysis shows that by using “so” concurrently with resources generally considered to …

The aim of our study is to show the ways in which family members coordinate their minds,
bodies and language in a functional and goal-oriented manner when they are jointly …

Abstract In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass die christliche Predigt eine
multimodal realisierte rekonstruktiv-prospektive kommunikative Gattung ist, die die Aufgabe …

This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices in doctoral supervision
meetings, observing supervisors' and students' conduct to enable a new understanding of …