23.2929, Diss: Compling/Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics/Text/Corpus Linguistics: Koutsombogera: 'Multimodality in TV interviews...'

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Subject: 23.2929, Diss: Compling/Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics/Text/Corpus Linguistics: Koutsombogera: 'Multimodality in TV interviews...'

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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:09:31
From: Maria Koutsombogera [mkouts at ilsp.gr]
Subject: Multimodality in TV interviews: Development and exploitation of multimedia corpora in the representation and modeling of multimodal communication

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Institution: University of Athens 
Program: Department of Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2012 

Author: Maria Koutsombogera

Dissertation Title: Multimodality in TV interviews: Development and
Exploitation of Multimedia Corpora in the Representation
and Modeling of Multimodal Communication 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Christoforos Charalambakis

Dissertation Abstract:

The research presented in this thesis explores the multimodal aspects 
of communication in the genre of television interviews. Specifically, it 
unfolds a cross‐disciplinary, corpus‐based approach on the 
communicative role of the non‐verbal expressions (gestures, facial 
expressions, body posture) employed by the interview participants and 
their interplay with speech in terms of their contribution to the structure, 
content and perception of a participant's message. 

Taking into account previous and state‐of the‐art research on the 
analysis of non‐verbal interaction, the thesis addresses both 
methodological and research issues. The former deal with the 
development of a multimodal corpus and the related design of an 
appropriate coding scheme applied for the annotation of the data via a 
computational tool catering for the handling of the audiovisual input 
and the respective structured output format. 

The resulting annotated corpus attestations are studied in detail in an 
attempt to find evidence about their systematic role as well as to 
explore non‐verbal communicative patterns through which the 
speakers regulate their interaction. The analysis focuses on the 
distribution and frequency of the various features, the classification of 
non‐verbal expressions according to semiotic, semantic and pragmatic 
criteria as well as their mapping to semantic equivalent and syntactic 
constituents, shedding light to the detailed ways in which the linguistic 
and the non‐verbal system interact in the effective, synchronised 
communication of information. Furthermore, the thesis investigates the 
effect of the situational and conversational setting of each interview, as 
well as possible cross‐cultural diversities, on the interactional behavior 
of the participants and their preferences. Finally, it concludes with 
recommendations on the exploitation of the resulting research and 
future work.
 






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