Abstract
This visual essay examines the non-verbal actions and the production of identity of Serbian and English native speakers during a videoconferencing task in New Zealand. This cross-cultural study examines the modes of facial expression, posture, and hand/arm movements to show how these are telling of the identity of the Serbian and English native speakers. Although gesture and language have received significant attention in research, very few studies have addressed the cross-cultural non-verbal actions and no study has compared Serbian native speakers with New Zealand English speakers. This visual essay addresses this gap.
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Ethical approval: This research obtained ethic approval 17/46 from the Auckland University of Technology Ethics Committee on 16. March 2017.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Introduction: multimodal (inter)action analysis
- Research Articles
- Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis for the study of lectures: active and passive uses of metadiscourse
- Critical learning episodes in the EFL classroom: a multimodal (inter)action analytical perspective
- Constructing a hybrid Samoan identity through Siva Samoa in New Zealand: a multimodal (inter)action analysis of two dance rehearsals
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