Book review: Arnulf Deppermann and Jürgen Streeck (eds), Time in Embodied Interaction: Synchronicity and Sequentiality of Multimodal Resources

Abstract

taken into account in the analysis, from grammatical to discursive constraints, through semantic and pragmatic ones. One can perhaps regret that the nature of the corpus (social reports written by experts and academic texts written by semi-experts) does not really make it possible to distinguish between the influence of the genre constraints and that of the degree of expertise, and that the former seems to be favoured over the latter in the explanations. However, given that the comparison between the two types of texts is not central to the study, this should rather be seen as an avenue to explore in future studies. Indeed, the fact that one closes the book with so many ideas for further research proves that Cislaru and Olive have managed to share their enthusiasm for the topic and to convince readers of its relevance and value.