Title:

How negative is a negation? — a multimodal analysis of a public speech (a case study with quantitativecomponents)

Creator:

Gembalczyk, Sonia

Publisher:

Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2019

Subject and Keywords:

negative gesture ; affirmative gesture ; multimodality ; four-sides communication model

Abstract:

The article gives an analysis of a single public speech in respect of multimodal displays of negation. It emphasisesespecially the relations between signs and symptoms of negation and affirmation. The data — an audiovisualrecording — has been annotated using ELAN with a template, which besides a text transcriptionenables a description of i.a. hand gestures (with a few specific features), arm and head movements, gazeand mimics.Observation of the temporal coordination between the respective means of expression let to distinct somesubcategories of multimodal negative utterances: definitive negations, seemingly mismatched negations,amplifying negations, exclusively non-verbal negations, ironic negations and verbal negations accompaniedby gestures of non-negated predicates.

Relation:

Socjolingwistyka

Volume:

33

Start page:

149

End page:

165

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

10.17651/SOCJOLING.33.9

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Access:

Open