Kristin Enola Gilbert

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kristin Enola Gilbert is involved.

Title

Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups

Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian

Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However, there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 90] 2021. xi, 190 pp.

Articles

Gilbert, Kristin Enola 2018 Evaluating evaluation: Interactional positioning and embodied narration in police interviews Narrative Inquiry 28:1, pp. 1–29 | Article

This study examines a participant’s narrative in a focus group interview dealing with the evaluation of criminal justice policy – the impact of community policing training. However, rather than look at the narrative solely in the speech of the interviewee, I analyze the integration of speech and… read more

Matoesian, Gregory and Kristin Enola Gilbert 2016 Multifunctionality of hand gestures and material conduct during closing argument Gesture 15:1, pp. 79–114 | Article

Closing argument represents the most crucial part of the adversarial system of justice. For attorneys, it provides an opportunity to showcase their persuasive skills through the full range of semiotic resources at their disposal. While studies of legal discourse have examined speech performance,… read more