Ile jest negowania w negacji? – multimodalna analiza wystąpienia publicznego (pilotażowe badanie z elementami ilościowymi)

Abstract

The article gives an analysis of a single public speech in respect of multimodal displays of negation. It emphasises especially the relations between signs and symptoms of negation and affirmation. The data — an audiovisual recording — has been annotated using ELAN with a template, which besides a text transcription enables a description of i.a. hand gestures (with a few specific features), arm and head movements, gaze and mimics. Observation of the temporal coordination between the respective means of expression let to distinct some subcategories of multimodal negative utterances: definitive negations, seemingly mismatched negations, amplifying negations, exclusively non-verbal negations, ironic negations and verbal negations accompanied by gestures of non-negated predicates.