Body Language and Gestures as a Lingua Franca among Multilingual Interlocutors: Multimodal Transcription Study
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211223.041How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Body language; Lingua franca; Multimodal transcription
- Abstract
Lingua franca is known as the language bridge between two different people who have different native languages. The theory stated that humans communicate by using vocal organs and the whole part of the body. This study was conducted to seek out whether non-verbal language could be considered lingua franca. This study used multimodal transcription analysis with Jefferson and Modada transcript notation and has decided on several data clips from YouTube. The study examines the gestures and other non-verbal languages to seek out whether multilingual interlocutors could receive the implied message delivered by body language. The results show that the hearer was trying to understand the speaker’s gesture. The speaker does not speak English fluently, so he was struggling to find perfect diction. At the end of the clip, the speaker finally succeeds in portraying his thoughts through some gestures. In addition, the interlocutors were taking place in the action of delivering and receiving implied meaning through gestures and body language. Even though there was already a lingua franca (e.g., English), body language adds meaning through the message. Furthermore, this study was conducted in order to give a different insight into the term lingua franca.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Cynthia L. Soegiono AU - Laily M.S. Harti AU - Sueb Sueb PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Body Language and Gestures as a Lingua Franca among Multilingual Interlocutors: Multimodal Transcription Study BT - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2021 (IJCAH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 229 EP - 236 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211223.041 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211223.041 ID - Soegiono2021 ER -