Instructing Bodies
Edited by Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter and Jan Lindström
Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 5:1/2 (2025) v, 228 pp.
Emily Hofstetter
List of John Benjamins publications in which Emily Hofstetter is involved.
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2025 Linguistic and other vocal resources of instructing bodies Instructing Bodies, Keevallik, Leelo, Emily Hofstetter and Jan Lindström (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Introduction
This special issue targets the relationship between language and the body, in cases where the local emergence of grammar and lexicon is embedded in trajectories of instruction. The contributions document how the body comes into use in sequences of verbal interaction, as well as how the language… read more
2020 Embodied interaction Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 111–138 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 6. Making “politics” relevant: How constituents and a member of parliament raise political topics at constituency surgeries Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan (eds.), pp. 127–150 | Chapter
This paper investigates an area of political discourse that has hitherto existed in an analytic “black box”: the constituency office. We focus on the interactions between ordinary British people as they engage directly in “political” discussions with their Member of Parliament. While the majority… read more