Saying and Doing in Zapotec: Multimodality, Resonance, and the Language of Joint Actions.

Sometimes linguistic anthropology can feel like a very small field, with a relatively neatly delimited set of concerns and approaches; it may also sometimes feel isolated, as if it is operating on the margins of linguistics as well as anthropology. Sicoli takes as his challenge to find out what the use of video documentation has to offer to the study of language and interaction, and he effectively makes the case that it does indeed have a lot to offer to both the linguistic and the ethnographic toolbox. A linguistically disinclined reader may be overwhelmed by the somewhat unwieldy transcription, but because Sicoli also describes each interaction in detail, the arguments can be appreciated without reading the detailed transcriptions, though I would recommend watching the videos. [Extracted from the article]