How to analyse multimodal (inter)action in material settings? Recently in various research fields there has been a growing awareness of and interest in empirical research that takes into serious analytical account the role of multimodal artefacts, documents, embodied people, gaze, gestures, language, music, objects, places, practices, texts, etc.. In other words, the often abstract and/or vague concept of 'context' is being foregrounded as part and parcel of the ongoing activity.
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