Multimodal Interaction: Research Possibilities of CA methodology: Following the Results of the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (Mannheim, Germany, 2010)

Abstract

The review is devoted to one of mainstreams within conversation analytic perspective — multimodal interaction analysis, and is based on the materials of the CA conference (ICCA 10) which was devoted to multimodal interaction studies. Some key topics and research problems being discussed during conference panels are described in this paper as well as main research directions within contemporary CA sphere.