We are inviting researchers in all career stages to send us abstracts for book chapters to be included in an edited volume, which will be published at Verlag für Gesprächsforschung. The tentative title will be VIDEO-MEDIATED INTERACTION: MULTIMODAL AND INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Editors: Ulrike Schröder, Annal Ladilova & Galina Gostrer

Overview
As digital communication becomes increasingly integral to both everyday and institutional life, this volume aims to explore how meaning is co-constructed in intercultural and multilingual video-mediated interactions (VMI). Special attention is given to the fragmentation of sensory resources—visual, auditory, gestural, and embodied—, screen-mediated visual design, and the way, how participants creatively reconfigure these affordances to promote intercultural understanding, as well as address potential challenges that may arise from the complexities of the video-mediated interaction itself as well as the cultural or linguistic aspects.

Key topics may include (but are not limited to):
• Conversation-analytic approaches to video-mediated interaction (VMI) in intercultural institutional, professional, educational, and informal settings (e.g., lingua franca communication, turn-taking dynamics or teletandem exchanges);
• Multimodal resources, in particular
• Gestural resources in intercultural VMI, with particular attention, but not limited to facial gestures;
• Interactional-linguistic cueing through co-occurring verbal, prosodic, and gestural features;
• Acoustic features in digital multilingual encounters;
• Intercultural pragmatic phenomena, including culture-specific (im)politeness markers;
• Methodological challenges in researching VMI, such as epistemological considerations, multimodal transcription, or the integration of quantitative with qualitative methods;
• Ethical considerations in multinational corpus building, including informed consent, anonymization, and data sharing practices;
• Theoretical frameworks of research on VMI and their combination.

We welcome contributions grounded in, or engaging with, a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including but not limited to:
• Conversation analysis
• Interactional linguistics
• Gesture studies
• Multimodal interaction analysis
• Intercultural communication studies
• Sociolinguistics
• Discourse studies
This edited volume originates from the PROBRAL CAPES/DAAD-funded project “The Multimodal Coordination of Intercultural Video-Mediated Interaction” (2022-2026), a collaborative research initiative involving three Brazilian and three German universities, along with additional international partners who joined the project during its implementation.

Types of Contributions
We invite both theoretical-methodological and empirical contributions. Theoretical-methodological papers should directly address how to capture and analyze the fragmented, multimodal nature of multilingual talk-in-interaction within culturally diverse, global contexts. Empirical papers should present fine-grained analyses of video-mediated interaction data. Possible areas of focus include online teamwork, classroom discourse, , family or peer interactions, and institutional, professional, or public communication.

Submission Guidelines and Timeline
Please submit an abstract (400–500 words, excluding references) along with a short author biography (maximum 150 words) to Ulrike Schröder [uschr400@gmail.com] by October 15, 2025.
Notification of acceptance: November, 15, 2025
Full chapters (6,000–8,000 words) due: May, 15, 2026.

References
Gesture annotation and function
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Video-mediated interaction and transcription
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Multimodal intercultural interaction and transcription
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Ladilova, A. 2023. Methodological aspects of the analysis of co-speech gestures in intercultural interactions. In Ulrike Schröder, Elisabetta Adami & Jennifer Dailey O’Cain (eds.), Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction, 61–80. London, New York: Routledge.
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Schröder, U. 2025. Co-constructing Intercultural Space: An Embodied Approach. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
Sindoni, M. G. 2023. A Multimodal and Translanguaging Approach to Video-Mediated Interaction in Virtual English as a Lingua Franca Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Methodological issues on transcribing multimodality in interaction
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Contact
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Site: letras.ufmg.br/profs/ulrike; Email: ulrike@ufmg.br
Prof. Dr. Anna Ladilova (University Justus-Liebig, Germany)
Web: www.ladilova.de; Email: anna@ladilova.de
Galina Gostrer (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
galina.gostrer@gmx.de