Once the spoken discourse is transcribed, we want to transcribe the facial expression for this clip by taking still photos of the opening/closing of eyes and the mouth. We also want to look at the tilting of the head and shoulder movements. For more detail on how to transcribe various modes, see Analyzing Multimodal Interaction: A Methodological Framework (Norris, 2004).

Then we arrange the stills in successive order and add the spoken utterances in wave-form to illustrate the clip visually:

Luke, who is looking straight into a video camera, uses the phrase "out of my face" for the very first time in his very own way, making the words and the phrase his own (in the Bakhtinian sense), producing a humorous scene, triggering his mother to smile. Then (not transcribed here), he realizes that she is busy and after a brief moment, goes back to playing.

In this part of the clip, we can see how Luke (age 3), is thinking of the right thing to say (first image). New and difficult verbalizations can be viewed in a toddler's whole body and in this image in particular in Luke's tongue movement. Then (second image), we can see that Luke has an idea. Here, his facial expression (his smile and the eyes in particular) display his humorous expectation and then he produces the utterance with his whole face, his head and his shoulders involved, illustrating the concentration that is needed.

1 thinking hard…

   and the tongue is

   helping

2 got an idea! 

  it’s in the smile

  and in the eyes

3 ready

  to verbalize...

4 verbalizing

5 verbalizing

6 getting ready for the

   joke

7 peak of the joke

8 checking the 

   effect…

9 it worked!  Mom

   is smiling!

  but, hm. ..she's  

  busy...o.k. on to

  something else...