Multimodality and Gestures in the Teacher’s Communication

Abstract. The paper presents a research on the multimodal communication of teachers in the classroom. The “musical score”, a procedure for the analysis of multimodal communication, is used to analyse aspects of the signals produced and of the meanings conveyed by teachers while interacting with their pupils, by focusing not only on affective and interactional aspects, but also on the cognitive effects of nonverbal communication. Finally, the paper shows how, based on this procedure, it is possible to analyse chunks of teachers’ communication, and to distinguish different multimodal communicative styles among different teachers. 1 Multimodality in the Classroom Among studies on everyday interaction, an interesting area for the study of multimodal communication is teacher-pupil interaction, a topic generally studied in the domains of education, linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and social psychology [1], [2], [3], [4]. [5] applied Ekman and Friesen’s analysis [6], mainly stressing the affective and interactional aspects of the teacher’s nonverba

Irony in a judicial debate: Analyzing the subtleties of irony while testing the subtleties of an annotation scheme

Irony has been studied by famous scholars across centuries, as well as more recently in cognitive and pragmatic research. The prosodic and visual signals of irony were also studied. Irony is a communicative act in which the Sender's literal goal is to communicate a meaning x, but through this meaning the Sender has the goal to communicate another meaning, y, which is contrasting, sometimes even opposite, to meaning x. In this case we have an antiphrastic irony. So an ironic act is an indirect speech act, in that its true meaning, the one really intended by the Sender, is not the one communicated by the literal meaning of the communicative act: it must be understood through inferences by the Addressee. The ironic statement may concern an event, object or person, and in this case, the Addressee, or a third person, or even the Sender itself (Self-irony). In this paper we define irony in terms of a goal and belief view of communication, and show how the annotation scheme, the Anvil-Score, and illustrate aspects of its expressive power by applying it to a particular case: ironic communication in a judicial debate. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V

Produzione e percezione di emozioni vocali: uno studio cross-linguistico-culturale europeo

Dottorato di ricerca in Psicologia della programmazione e intelligenza artificiale, XXI ciclo, A.a. 2008-2009Università della Calabri

L’espressione delle emozioni in chat, forum ed e-learning

Il lavoro analizza alcune forme di comunicazione tipiche dell'interazione mediata, fra cui gli emoticons, i puntini, i punti esclamativi, che suppliscono in queste forme di linguaggio alla mancanza degli elmenti prosodici e intonativi che nel parlato veicolano le informazioni emotive, mostrandone le differenze e somiglianze d'uso nella comunicazioen sincrona e asincron