We often acquire new movement patterns under expert guidance. This book is devoted to how this task is accomplished through multimodal means at the linguistic, physical, and visual levels. The Pilates method serves as the situational context. Using linguistic analysis methods and with the help of many example analyses, the practices of instructing in training sessions, guidebooks, and training videos are compared.
Heike Ortner, Universität Innsbruck, Österreich.
