Abstract
![CDATA[This project examines Australia’s former prime minster, Kevin Rudd’s body language during his resignation speech in Canberra on 24 June 2010. Kevin was forced out of his ALP leadership, thus falling to his all-time low, both verbally and particularly nonverbally. He repeatedly broke down while he was giving a 19-minute defeat speech. Using a qualitative approach to analyze audio/video-based data (Atkinson & Heritage, 1984; Potter, 1997; Yang, 2003; 2010a, 2010b), this project specifically looks at four perspectives of Kevin’s body language, such as eye contact, facial expressions, hand gesture and posture. It is found that Kevin’s body language in conjunction with its verbal component is used as a multimodality of communication, not just as an “isolated signal synchrony” (Atkinson, 1984, p. 48).]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Abstracts of the 5th International Conference on Multimodality, 1-3 December 2010, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | International Conference on Multimodality - Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → … |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Multimodality |
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| Period | 1/01/10 → … |