Konat, BarbaraJuszczyk, Konrad2015-11-102015-11-102015Lodz Studies in Language vol. 37, 2015, pp. 195-212978-3-631-65664-8http://hdl.handle.net/10593/14014In the paper we aim to describe multimodal communication in career coaching sessions using recorded natural, face-to-face interactions and corpus techniques. We look on how the specific context of communication influences the lexical and gestural behaviour of speakers in the dialogues between a professional career coach and a participant. Main topic of the conversation was participant’s future career. Spoken corpus of career coaching sessions was compared with standard spoken Polish corpus, to reveal four main categories of keywords: cognition verbs, words describing uncertainty and words indicating an abstract referent. Also some types and functions of gestures in career coaching were analysed with the use of NEUROGES coding system.en-USinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesscoachingmultimodallexiscorpuskeywordsgesturesclean coachingmetaphorPolish spoken languagecoaching session transcriptRozdział z książki