Loulou Kosmala
[Advances in Interaction Studies 11] 2024
► pp. 146–190
This chapter presents the findings obtained from the DisReg corpus, covering “ordinary” versus “institutional” aspects of multimodal talk, comparing productions of French students in two different language styles and communication settings (i.e. class presentations versus face-to-face interactions, cf Chapter 3, Section I.1.3). As we have seen (cf Chapter 2, Section II), these differences cover many dimensions, ranging from the type of delivery, the degree of preparation, to other social factors (i.e. register and type of addressee). The main research question addressed in this chapter is whether all these inter-related factors do have an impact on the distribution of fluencemes and gestures, and, if it is the case, how it is manifested in both the vocal/verbal and visual-gestural channel.
This chapter is structured as follows: I first present research questions and hypotheses, some of which stem from the ones formulated in Chapters 1 and 3. In Sections II and III I present the quantitative and qualitative findings extracted from the annotations of the data, which, similarly tot the study of SITAF, integrates different levels of analysis (speech, visuo-gestural, and interactional) and mixes statistical and conversation-analytical methods. These findings are then discussed in Section III.