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Phonemes with restricted distribution represent an interesting analytic challenge. Well-known sources include the adoption of certain phonemes from other languages in borrowed words, emerging phonemic splits, and special phonological subsystems (e.g. ideophones). This paper aims to widen our conception of such marginal phonemes, by incorporating an...
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... We undertake the analysis of body language presented here not only because the meanings negotiated in a conference cannot be fully interpreted on the basis of one modality alone, but because body language gives us an important insight into the bonding process flagged by Knight (2010). The model of body language that we have used in this study arose out of previous work investigating the co-patterning of gesture and phonological structure, viewed as sibling systems on language's expression plane (Zappavigna et al. 2009). Analysis of body language is a new region in SFL-based multimodal discourse analysis, although it is relatively well established in other disciplines such as anthropology and cognitive science (Efron 1941;Morris 1979;McNeill 1992;Goldin-Meadow and Singer 2003;Kendon 2004). ...
The focus of this chapter is the relation of feelings to community. Inspired by Knight (2008, 2010, 2013), the idea that belonging involves enacting bonds is explored, with a bond defined as a shared ‘attitude plus ideation’ coupling. This means that looking at how couplings are negotiated as bonds is crucial for understanding the reintegrative practice of conferencing. Accordingly, the chapter carefully considers the interaction of language and body language as far as negotiating bonds are concerned. This in turn raises the question of how to address the communities engendered by these bonding processes. Based on the work of Tann, the chapter then illustrates the operation of categorization, collectivization and spatialization devices in conferencing, and attends to the use of vocatives to flag relevant communities of feeling.
This chapter suggests that conference theorists and advocates have been looking in the wrong place when trying to find a way of explaining the transformation that occurs in a conference. Instead of a theory based on personal internal emotional states, the chapter argues for a social semiotic perspective that accounts for the interactive power of the macro-genre—an approach that deals with the way conferences draw on shared cultural resources to realign the YP with the positive values of particular communities. Anthropological work on ceremony and Systemic Functional Linguistic work on iconization are brought together in an interpretation of conferencing as a powerful form of ceremonial redress.
