Sharing a bit more about my contribution to *The Documentarist Turn* 📘
In our chapter, we argue for a **multimodal turn in corpus building**—moving beyond speech-centered approaches and toward documenting the full range of communicative resources involved in interaction.
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This chapter argues for a decisive shift in corpus-building practices toward a Multimodal Turn. For decades, smaller-scale spoken and signed languages were less available for linguistic corpus researc...
Based on 2,500+ annotated examples, we show that these movements systematically serve functions such as discourse organization, stance-taking, affirmation/negation, illocutionary marking, and interaction management across both spoken and signed interaction. #DGS #multimodality #German #headmovements
