Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests

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• dc.contributor.author Hübscher, Iris
• dc.contributor.author Sánchez-Conde, Cristina
• dc.contributor.author Borràs-Comes, Joan
• dc.contributor.author Vincze, Laura
• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-04-03T06:14:21Z
• dc.date.available 2023-04-03T06:14:21Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract Recent cross-linguistic research has demonstrated that speakers use a prosodic mitigation strategy when addressing higher status interlocutors by talking more slowly, reducing the intensity and lowering the overall fundamental frequency (F0). Much less is known, however, about how politeness-related meaning is expressed multimodally (i.e., combining verbal and multimodal channels). The present study investigates how Catalan native speakers encode politeness-related meanings through facial and body cues. We test whether speakers apply a gestural mitigation strategy and use specific hedging devices in socially distant situations (e.g., when asking an older person of higher status for a favor). Twenty Catalan speakers were video-recorded while participating in a discourse elicitation task where they were required to produce requests in polite and non-polite contexts. In the resulting recordings, a set of 21 facial and body cues associated with speech were coded and analyzed. The results show that politeness-related meanings are expressed through gestural mitigation strategies that go hand-in-hand with previously reported prosodic mitigation strategies.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Agencia Estatal de Investigacion, and Fondo Europeo ´ de Desarrollo Regional, grant numbers PGC2018-097007-B-100 and PID2021- 123823NB-I00; and by a grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, grant number 2017 SGR_971 to the Prosodic Studies Group.
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• dc.identifier.citation Hübscher I, Sánchez-Conde C, Borràs-Comes J, Vincze l, Prieto P. Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests. Journal of Politeness Research. 2023;19(1):1-29. DOI: 10.1515/pr-2020-0033
• dc.identifier.doi https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pr-2020-0033
• dc.identifier.issn 1612-5681
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56392
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher De Gruyter
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Politeness Research. 2023;19(1):1-29.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-097007-B-I00
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/PID2021-123823NB-I00
• dc.rights © 2022 the author(s), published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Catalan
• dc.subject.keyword Multimodal mitigation
• dc.subject.keyword Multimodal politeness
• dc.subject.keyword Requests
• dc.title Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion