Kurt Feyaerts
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kurt Feyaerts is involved.
2026 Beyond Foreigner Talk: Hand gestures in L1–L2 interaction Gesture: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper challenges the common belief that first language (L1) speakers simplify their language when communicating with second language (L2) users, which is captured in Charles Ferguson’s ‘Foreigner Talk’ hypothesis. Academic research has long suggested that, along with simplified vocabulary… read more
2019 Affiliation in interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk: On the relationship between gaze and head nods Interpreting 21:2, pp. 220–244 | Article
The aim of this article is to explore how affiliation (Stivers 2008) with the patient is displayed and interactionally achieved in the context of an interpreter-mediated therapeutic dialogue. More specifically, we focus on the interplay between affiliative listener responses – especially head… read more
2018 On the role of gaze in the organization of turn-taking and sequence organization in interpreter-mediated dialogue Language and Dialogue 8:3, pp. 439–467 | Article
This paper contributes to the growing line of research that takes a multimodal approach in the study of interpreter-mediated dialogues. Drawing on insights from Conversation Analysis and multimodal analysis, we investigate how extended multi-unit turns unfold with interventions of an interpreter… read more
2018 Chapter 12. Displaying recipiency in an interpreter-mediated dialogue: An eye-tracking study Eye-tracking in Interaction: Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue, Brône, Geert and Bert Oben (eds.), pp. 301–322 | Chapter
This chapter discusses the findings of a study that used mobile eye-tracking in the context of a naturally occurring interpreter-mediated dialogue. This type of interaction is particularly interesting for the study of gaze and other (non-) verbal resources, as the primary interlocutors have no or… read more
2013 Tackling the complexity of spontaneous humorous interaction: An integrated classroom-modeled corpus approach Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.), pp. 243–268 | Article
This contribution focuses on three major aspects of the recently developed Corpus Interactional Humor (Corinth). First, it describes the socio-cognitive account of meaning, against the background of which the corpus is designed. Language use is basically a dynamic intersubjective process, in which… read more
2010 Patterns of interaction in Austrian parliamentary debates: On the pragmasemantics of unauthorized interruptive comments European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 135–164 | Article
2005 Headlines and cartoons in the economic press: Double grounding as a discourse supportive strategy Language, Communication and the Economy, Erreygers, Guido and Geert Jacobs (eds.), pp. 73–99 | Article
1999 Metonymic Hierarchies: The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic Expressions Metonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 309–332 | Article