Applying Appraisal Theory for the Interpretation of Experienced Researchers’ Interviews on Open Access

Interviews are a recognized and valued method for obtaining research data. Usually, these data drawn from the content of interviews. However, words prosodic elements that accompany them may reveal complementary, even contradictory information, substantially alters researcher’s first impression. After publication in September 2018 document COAlition Plan S which announced results funded by European institutions would have to be published Open Access 1 January 2020 (later postponed 2021), 10 experienced researchers were interviewed on this topic. It is interviews will focus paper: interviewees’ discourse its meaning. To develop research, Appraisal Theory (Martin & White, 2005) was selected. Even though it originally designed study English language, framework proved very useful analysing researchers’ attitudes towards (OA) through several Spanish Catalan language strategies. In addition, as audio recorded, decided complement linguistic analysis paying attention paralinguistic resources. The multimodal opinions reveals dilemma they faced with, either publish limited number less prestigious journals using Access, or pay high fees use Gold Access.