Chapter 62 Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication.

• Main Author: Enfield, N. J. (auth)
• Other Authors: Müller, Cornelia (Editor), Fricke, Ellen (Editor), Cienki, Alan (Editor), McNeill, David (Editor), Ladewig, Silva (Editor), Tessendorf, Sedinha (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Subjects: linguistics; Communication studies; Multimodal Communication; Embodiment
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 This chapter gives a brief and selective overview of how to approach research on bodilyand linguistic aspects of communication by doing fieldwork. Here I do not address tech-nological issues such as specific choices of video recording equipment or computerprograms for processing and analysis. Any such discussion would either be too pur-pose-specific or would quickly become obsolete due to the fast-moving nature of thetechnology. Our interest here is the general approach.