Smiling for negotiating topic transitions in French conversation
Sourire pour négocier des transitions thématiques de conversations en Français
Résumé
This study focuses on participants’ smiling behavior as a resource for negotiating topic transitions in French conversations. The smile will be analyzed as a resource during topic transitions: through its intensities and its development. This study will show that the speaker’s smiling dynamic contributes to initiating a transition and that the hearer tends to synchronize his/her smile with the speaker to ratify it.
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