Abstract. This paper presents a method and an exploration tool for use within an interactional approach to emotion in human interactions. The method is based upon detecting traces of emotionality along eight analytical dimensions: multimodality, interactivity, uttered noises, agreement markers, personal markers, macrosyntactic units, interactional units and lexical repetitions. Two corpus excerpts from different research groups are analyzed following this method. The visualization tool has been designed to support identification of concomitant events and measurement of accumulation of traces at a given point in time, and thus provides better understanding of the complex process of elaboration of emotion during interactions.,

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