Gender differences in eye-contact behaviour in parliamentary discourse

• Autores: Gloria Álvarez Benito, Isabel Iñigo-Mora
• Localización: A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament / coord. por Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez, Gloria Álvarez Benito, 2016, ISBN 9027206597, págs. 161-193
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim of this chapter is to analyse the main functions of eye-contact in the Andalusian Parliament (Committee for Equality and Social Welfare). The corpus consists of 12 oral questions (from March to September 2010) raised by the two main political parties. The study focuses on three aspects: 1) turn-types; 2) political allegiance; 3) gender differences. Regarding turn-types, the results showed that longer eye-contact tended to be more frequent in the second turns. Concerning political allegiance, eye-contact was used as a means to signalling affiliation and loyalty towards the Regional Minister. Regarding gender differences, men seemed to keep more eye-contact than women.