Аннотация:In the paper we present the results of а multimodal analysis of the most frequent Russian discourse markers (DMs) expressing positive verification – da ‘yes’, da-da ‘yes’, nu da ‘yes’, konechno ‘of course’, razumeetsja ‘of course’, jestestvenno ‘naturally’. In a dialogical turn of a given speaker they mark the proposition P of the previous turn of the interlocutor as true. DMs of this type have variable prosody and may redundantly be accompanied with a synonymous gesture “nod”. The aim of the study was to identify the factors that influence the paraverbal aspects of such DMs. The analysis of mini-dialogs from the multimodal sub-corpus of RNC revealed the correlations between various syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic factors on the one hand and gestural accompaniment and prosodic features of DMs on the other. The results obtained may be useful for modelling the paraverbal behavior of embodied computer agents and robots.