A Multimodal Approach to Catalan Pragmatic Markers

An Exploratory Study

Bibliographic Data

ID5900531
AuthorsAna Llopis Cardona (0000-0002-7531-8553, Universitat de València), Iris Hübscher (0000-0002-3215-7294, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Adrián Cabedo Nebot (0000-0002-3881-9308, Universitat de València)
Year2024
Volume9
Issue4
Pages125
Publication date2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages9040125
OpenAlexW4393379388
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

This exploratory study aims to investigate the co-occurrence of Catalan pragmatic markers that fulfill an interactive function and multimodal cues, such as manual gestures, adaptors, head gestures, and eye gaze. To do so, we utilized spontaneous face-to-face conversations between ten different dyads, all of whom were undergraduate students discussing movies that they had recently seen. We processed the data with descriptive quantitative statistics, specifically employing exploratory multifactorial statistical visualization techniques, including multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and cluster analysis. The results showed that pragmatic markers generally co-occur with multimodal cues. Although the multimodal system works independently, when pragmatic markers are uttered, both systems tend to harmonize in accordance with general communicative tasks, particularly turn management, alignment, and social affiliation

Catalan · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies