Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 333] 2023. vii, 360 pp.
Iris Hübscher
List of John Benjamins publications for which Iris Hübscher plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
2023 Chapter 1. Multimodal im/politeness: Introduction Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 5. Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 131–161 | Chapter
This paper explores the multimodal indexing of social distance in two unrelated languages/cultures: Korean and Catalan. Participants performed several tasks: once with a status superior (“socially distant” condition) and once with a friend (“socially close”). Catalan speakers exhibited more body… read more
2023 Chapter 7. Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions: The role of socio-pragmatic factors Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 185–211 | Chapter
The present study explores the extent to which vocal accommodation in conflicting situations can be explained by socio-pragmatic factors such as interpersonal relationships (i.e., politeness) and pragmatic events occurring in apology-centered interactions. A total of 28 dyadic conversations… read more
2022 Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures Gesture 21:2/3, pp. 167–200 | Article
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially… read more
2018 Chapter 14. Children’s development of internal state prosody The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 271–293 | Chapter
Infants have access to the prosodic aspects of their ambient language even prior to birth, but many aspects of prosody are produced and comprehended well after infancy. One of these aspects includes prosody related to internal states such as beliefs, desires, feelings and emotions. In this chapter,… read more