BSAA/BLAA: unchanged gaze, looking away from partner
Definition: Gaze both before and after the blink is directed away from the head of the conversational partner.
There is great variation in the frequency of this blink across individuals. More so than the BSTT blink, you may frequently encounter flurries of BSAA blinks that appear to be related to speaker-internal issues such as sentence planning and lexical access, though only further research can determine whether this kind of speculation is warranted.
Examples
Example 1: BSAA (Blink Short Away Away)
| Blink | Slow Motion | Comments |
|---|---|---|
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BSAA Simple blink, with gaze constant, looking away from partner. |
Example 2: BLAA (Blink Long Away Away)
| Blink | Slow Motion | Comments |
|---|---|---|
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BLAA It was difficult to find a clear example of BLAA. These represent a minescule amount of blinks in the corpus. |