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Language acquisition, initiated in family interactions, continues for some children in daycare settings with less familiar interlocutors, including peers (Marcos et al., 2004). For the young child, these interactional contexts can be challenging (Cordeiro, 1999): number of participants; adult attent...

In bilingual environments where languages meet and intermingle, it is challenging for children to carve out their own bilingual interactional space. Often shared cross-culturally and accessible, gestures might represent more stable forms since words may vary in each code for the same function (Nicol...

The child's language experience is informed by participation in both dyadic and polyadic interactions. In polyadic interactions, the child may occupy the role of speaker, but also of various receiver roles (Goffman, 1981; Goodwin, 2006) and participate in these interactions in a more or less direct ...

Dinners constitute an ideal stage for participants to talk about the here and now -proximal discourse - but also to narrate the events of the day, collectively remember past events, make plans, or argue - distal discourse - (Dancygier, 2019). Participants dynamically switch to discourse that spans b...

Social interactions during book-reading in mother-child longitudinal data were mined for culturally rooted ways in which adults and children coordinate modes of communication, actions, bodies, and objects, in the environment to enhance their knowledge and skills.Two French children and two English c...

This research is based on a corpus of multimodal texts (billboards, signage elements, posts on social networks, etc.) collected in the city of Montreal with a view to enriching the teaching of French to adult migrants in Quebec. First, a semiotic analysis inspired by the work of van Leeuwen (2008) w...

Our proposal is part of the Augmented Artwork Analysis project, aiming to produce an application on a digital tablet for an augmented perception and interpretation of paintings in museums. Our corpus of analysis is based on an in situ observation of the mediation practices, through a captation mobil...