ALDS 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Illocutionary Act

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies
• Course: ALDS 1001
• Professor: Chloe Grace Fogarty- Bourget

Document Summary

Mulimodality: interplay of muliple modes to convey meaning (all interacion is mulimodel) Theory used by scholars in linguisiics and discourse studies. Mulimodel text: when muliple modes are used together to constrct meaning of a text (text is anythign being studied) Vebal: tone, speech, vocuabulary, stress, pitch, pronunciaion/ prosidy, speed/iming, laughter, other sounds, silence. Visual: proximity, posture, gesture, facial expressions, head nodding/ iling, movement (leg bouncing, foot tapping, self touching), physical appearance (grooming, resfulnesss, alertness), clothing, hairstyle, accessories, makeup, tatoos, piercings. Before a recognized ield, thought of as an add on, accening or commening, intenional. Dynamic canvas, communicate and infer emoional states. Read/ observe strangers faces to evaluate their state (emoions, intenions) and trait characterisiics. Culturally constructed but theory that there"s 4 universal facial expressions (anger, sadness, disgust, happiness): people/ linguists don"t completely buy it. Microexpressions (1/25-1/5 sec), litle expressions that escape. Blink rate (increase in masked and decreased in neutralized)