Semantic/ Pragmatic Means

Nilwati
Rahmad putra
Risna Ristiana
Tegar Risadi Chalid
Multimodal interactional analysis

Multimodal A holistic analysis of the multiple

interactional real-time sequential and
analysis simultaneous commutative
processes that participants
engage in.

Communicative A type semantics that underlies

semantics our holistic and multimodal
interaction
Pragmatics The study of the relation
of sins to interpreters

The interactions that

Face o face people engage in when
interaction they are within clear
line of sight of each
other
Communicative semantics/pragmatics

Communicative A systematic organization of the

semantics complex of the interactive
meaning , which is both
simultaneously and sequentially
structured, and helps people
indicate the level of attention
/awareness that they place on
certain high level actions

Communicative
pragmatics Analyzing interaction in real time
and analyzing how participants
use these lower-level actions.
 Is made up of pronounced
communicative lower-level actions means in
semantic structure order to differentiate between
the signals and the modes that
they belong to .

Beats and diexis

Beats

In language and gesture, beats have

been demonstrated to be highly
dependent upon language, taking on the
function of emphasizing a certain word
or notion, and thereby coherently
integrating the overall discourse.

Beat type lower level actions are not

language dependent , and can be formed
with other parts of the body as well as
with the hand/finger.
Deixis

The term “deixis” means pointing,indicative

Deictic lower-level actions can easily point to the

positions or orientations of entities or events in the
real world.

They can also point to the level of

attention/awareness that a participant in interaction
places on certain higher-level action.
 each participant in interaction
expresses their experiences,
thoughts, and feelings. And all
The phenomenal other participants in the
mind interactions are generally able to
perceive and interpret these
expressed experiences.

means structure meaning

beyond words and sentences
and also beyond the mode of
Semantic means
language through multiple
communicative modes in the
systematic ways.
Function of means

Means are used by the performer to

structure their own consciousness;
organizing their own foregrounding
of higher-level actions.

To communicative their shift in

focused actions which indicates
that the means simultaneously
have an interactive function

To structure someone else’s

consciousness; structuring the
other’s foregrounded higher level
action.
 The reason that head movement is of
particular importance for multimodal
Deictic Head interactional analysis is that participants
in interaction often use the head to
Movement
indicate a shift in foregrounded higher-
level action

The lower – level action of

Deictic leaning leaning towards and object and
towards as an object/ participant in a pronounced
way, indicates a shift in higher
participant
level action.
 The eyebrow flash

The eyebrow flash is an up-down movement of the eyebrow,

which is a beat type means and consists of a two-movements
phase just like other beats.

The means is regulating a shift of someone’s foregrounded

higher level action.
 The hand/finger beat

The hand/finger beat is an up-down movement of the hand or

fingers, which is a beat type means and consists of a two-movement
phase.

The hand/finger beat, when structuring the foregrounding of higher

level action, often does not coincide with spoken utterances.

Hand/finger beats often are audible and do not have to be seen by

the participants.