TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marina Reis de Souza
PY  - 2026
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1868-372X
SN  - 9783631945575
TI  - A Multimodal Analysis of Turn-initial Particles
T2  - Evidence from Video Interactions Among English as a Lingua Franca Users
DO  - 10.3726/b23359
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1611024
N2  - This book investigates how university students from different European nationalities successfully use English as a Lingua Franca in video-mediated interaction. In particular, the study analyzes the coordination of multimodal resources deployed by these participants at the beginning of their turns in online conversations. In order to investigate the deployment of multimodal resources in this turn-initial position, multimodal conversation analysis is applied to the corpus ViMELF (Corpus of video-mediated English as a lingua franca conversations). The focus of the book lies on the discussion of turn-initial particles and multimodal Gestalts. The multimodal Gestalts result from the systematic coordination of turn-initial particles with embodied resources. These include, for example, raised eyebrows and gaze aversion.
KW  - Multimodal conversation analysis, conversational analysis, turn-initial particles, multimodality, facial gestures, online interaction, English as a lingua franca, video-mediated interaction, multimodal Gestalt
LA  - English
ER  -