MULTIMODAL SEMIOTICS OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES: REPRESENTING BELIEFS, METAPHORS, AND ACTIONS



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speaker self-interrupt, self-correction
or restart

prolonged or stuttering

I

>text<

rising pitch

falling pitch

the enclosed speech was delivered

#

breath pause

more rapidly than usual

+

palato-alveolar click release

<text>

the enclosed speech was delivered

%

non-speech sound; e.g. %laugh,

more slowly than usual

%sneeze

text

emphasis

{}

uncertain speech

[

beginning of gesture phrase

/

unfilled speech pause, <1.0 seconds

]

end of gesture phrase

(1.5)

unfilled speech pause in seconds

CAPS

main stroke of gesture phase

-

abrupt halt in utterance

bold

comment on gesture

N.B. Signs are in gray in transcript to heighten readability of discourse text.

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