https://ris.uni-paderborn.de 2000-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 daily https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/59888 Lazarov, Stefan Teodorov Biermeier, Kai Grimminger, Angela 2024 Everyday explanations are interactive processes with the aim to provide a less knowledgeable person with reasonable information about other people, objects, or events. Because explanations are interactive communicative processes, the topical structure of an explanation may vary dynamically depending on the immediate feedback of the explainee. In this paper, we analyse topical transitions in medical explanations organised by different physicians (explainers) related to different forms of multimodal behaviour of caregivers (explainees) attending an explanation about the procedures of an upcoming surgery of a child. The analyses reveal that explainees’ multimodal behaviour with gaze shifts (and particularly gaze aversion) can predict a transition from an elaborated topic to a new one, whereas explainees’ forms of multimodal behaviour with static gaze cannot be related to changes of the topical structure. https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/59888 eng John Benjamins info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1075/is.23033.laz info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1572-0381 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/438445824 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Lazarov ST, Biermeier K, Grimminger A. Changes in the topical structure of explanations are related to explainees’ multimodal behaviour. <i>Interaction Studies</i>. 2024;25(3):257-280. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1075/is.23033.laz">10.1075/is.23033.laz</a> explanations multimodal behaviour elaborations conditional probabilities Changes in the topical structure of explanations are related to explainees’ multimodal behaviour info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501