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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26575| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Multimodal mitigation : how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests |
| Authors: | Hübscher, Iris Sánchez-Conde, Cristina Borràs-Comes, Joan Vincze, Laura Prieto, Pilar |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1515/pr-2020-0033 10.21256/zhaw-26575 |
| Published in: | Journal of Politeness Research |
| Volume(Issue): | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page(s): | 1 |
| Pages to: | 29 |
| Issue Date: | 2022 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | De Gruyter |
| ISSN: | 1612-5681 1613-4877 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Catalan; Multimodal mitigation; Multimodal politeness; Request; Interkulturalität; Sprachdiversität; Höflichkeit |
| Subject (DDC): | 490: Other languages |
| Abstract: | Recent cross-linguistic research has demonstrated that speakers use a prosodic mitigation strategy when addressing higher status interlocutors by talking more slowly, reducing the intensity and lowering the overall fundamental frequency (F0). Much less is known, however, about how politeness-related meaning is expressed multimodally (i.e., combining verbal and multimodal channels). The present study investigates how Catalan native speakers encode politeness-related meanings through facial and body cues. We test whether speakers apply a gestural mitigation strategy and use specific hedging devices in socially distant situations (e.g., when asking an older person of higher status for a favor). Twenty Catalan speakers were video-recorded while participating in a discourse elicitation task where they were required to produce requests in polite and non-polite contexts. In the resulting recordings, a set of 21 facial and body cues associated with speech were coded and analyzed. The results show that politeness-related meanings are expressed through gestural mitigation strategies that go hand-in-hand with previously reported prosodic mitigation strategies. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26575 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Language Competence (ILC) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Hübscher, I., Sánchez-Conde, C., Borràs-Comes, J., Vincze, L., & Prieto, P. (2022). Multimodal mitigation : how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests. Journal of Politeness Research, 19(1), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2020-0033
Hübscher, I. et al. (2022) ‘Multimodal mitigation : how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests’, Journal of Politeness Research, 19(1), pp. 1–29. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2020-0033.
I. Hübscher, C. Sánchez-Conde, J. Borràs-Comes, L. Vincze, and P. Prieto, “Multimodal mitigation : how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests,” Journal of Politeness Research, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 1–29, 2022, doi: 10.1515/pr-2020-0033.
HÜBSCHER, Iris, Cristina SÁNCHEZ-CONDE, Joan BORRÀS-COMES, Laura VINCZE und Pilar PRIETO, 2022. Multimodal mitigation : how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests. Journal of Politeness Research. 2022. Bd. 19, Nr. 1, S. 1–29. DOI 10.1515/pr-2020-0033
Hübscher, Iris, Cristina Sánchez-Conde, Joan Borràs-Comes, Laura Vincze, and Pilar Prieto. 2022. “Multimodal Mitigation : How Facial and Body Cues Index Politeness in Catalan Requests.” Journal of Politeness Research 19 (1): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2020-0033.
Hübscher, Iris, et al. “Multimodal Mitigation : How Facial and Body Cues Index Politeness in Catalan Requests.” Journal of Politeness Research, vol. 19, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1–29, https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2020-0033.
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