Selected Publications
Books and Editions
- E.Zima (in press). Kognition in der Interaktion – Eine kognitivlinguistische und gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung von Zwischenrufsequenzen in österreichischen Parlamentsdebatten. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg.
Articles
- Zima, E. (subm.). Cognitive Grammar and Dialogic Syntax: Exploring Potential Synergies. Review of Cognitive Linguistics.
- Brône, G., Zima, E. (in press). Towards a dialogic construction grammar. A corpus-based approach to ad hoc routines and resonance activation. Cognitive Linguistics. Special Issue on Resonance. Eds. Du Bois J.W., Giora, R.
- Zima, E.(in press): Online semantic creativity in parliamentary debates. In: Creativity in Discourse and Arts, Eds. Veale, T., Feyaerts, K., Forceville, Ch. Berlin. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Zima, E., Brône, G. (2011): Ad hoc Konstruktionen in der Interaktion: eine korpusbasierte Studie dialogischer Resonanzherstellung. In: Konstruktionsgrammatik III: Aktuelle Fragen und Lösungsansätze. Eds. Lasch, A., Ziem, A. Tübingen. Stauffenburg, 255-273.
- Zima, E., Brône, G., Feyaerts, K. (2010): Patterns of interaction in Austrian parliamentary debates. The pragmasemantics of interruptive comments. In: European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices. Ed. Ilie, C. Amsterdam. John Benjamins, 135-164.
- Zima, E., Brône, G., Feyaerts, K., Sambre, P. (2009): “Ce n’est pas très beau ce que vous avez dit”. Resonance activation in French parliamentary debates. Discours (4) 2009.
FRIAS Project
Construction Grammar in interaction: a multimodal perspective on operator-scope-constructions across different genres of spoken interaction
My research project is situated at the crossroads of Interactional Construction Grammar and multimodality research. Drawing on interactional video data from various settings (parliamentary debates, TV panel shows, rescue operations, and colloquial conversations), I zoom in on the multimodal realization of a construction that is argued to be typical for spoken German: the operator-scope-construction (Fiehler et al. 2004, Duden 2006).
I am particularly interested in the interplay of multimodal structure and the situated, interactive meaning. On the basis of a thorough analysis of the syntactic, prosodic, and gestural form as well as the interactional function of operator-scope-constructions, I would like to address the following research questions:
- Which multimodal signals and symbols (gestures) do speakers use co-verbally with operator-scope-constructions. How do these gestures relate to syntax and prosody?
- What is the role of gesture in terms of the operator’s projecting function?
- Which interactive meanings are expressed via the interplay of the studied modes?
And finally,
which arguments for or against a conception of constructions as purely linguistic form-meaning pairings (as in most work within the field of Construction Grammar(s)) does a multimodal focus provide or in other words, are co-verbal gestures part of a construction’s form or rather of its realization context?