Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests ↗
Journal of Politeness Research, 19(1), 1–29.
Shows how facial and bodily cues work alongside speech to express politeness in Catalan requests.
Research · Selected publications
Academic
Publications.
A selection of peer-reviewed work on how people communicate knowledge, certainty, social meaning and learning through language, voice, face and gesture.
Journal articles
Selected peer-reviewed research
Multimodal signals of high commitment in expert-to-expert contexts ↗
Discourse & Communication, 16(6), 693–715.
Analyses how researchers use body signals to convey certainty and commitment when presenting scientific findings.
Children’s signaling of their uncertain knowledge state: Prosody, face, and body cues come first ↗
Language Learning and Development, 15(4), 366–389.
Explores how Catalan preschool children express uncertainty, and how prosody and gesture can precede lexical cues.
Ignorance-unmasking questions in the Royal–Sarkozy presidential debate: A resource to claim epistemic authority ↗
Discourse Studies, 18(4), 430–453.
Examines how questions and multimodal cues challenge an opponent’s knowledge and claim authority in political debate.
Comments by words, face and body ↗
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 7(1–2), 67–78.
Studies how speakers make evaluative comments in political discussion through words and bodily communication.
Discrediting signals: A model of social evaluation to study discrediting moves in political debates ↗
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 6(3–4), 163–178.
Develops an account of verbal and non-verbal signals used to discredit others in political debate.
Agreement and its multimodal communication in debates: A qualitative analysis ↗
Cognitive Computation, 3(3), 466–479.
Maps ways of expressing agreement in debate, from words and extended turns to bodily signals.
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