Requests for verification across varieties of Spanish

Abstract: This article examines requests for verification across varieties of Spanish. It focuses on
the role of gaze behaviour in the design of the request and shows how gaze is inter-
related with other resources, such as facial expressions, epistemic markers, prosody
and tag questions. By comparing speakers from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and
Ecuador, the article finds similarities but also differences between the groups of speak-
ers. The speakers from Bolivia and Ecuador rarely establish mutual gaze or use facial
expressions during the verification sequence. Instead, more frequently, they deploy
other resources for obtaining verifications, such as tag questions, hand gestures and
rising intonation. The article considers differences in gaze behaviour within the larger
machinery of response mobilisation and shows how gaze is intertwined with other
aspects of conversational organisation. Results are based on qualitative and quanti-
tative analysis. The data stems from face-to-face conversations recorded in similar
side-by-side settings

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Contrastive pragmatics. - 5, 1-2 (2023) , 122-154, ISSN: 2666-0393

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Freiburg
• (who): Universität
• (when): 2024
• Creator: Satti, Ignacio

Further information

• DOI: 10.1163/26660393-bja10092
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2547940
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:50 PM CET