Abstract Conversational facial gestures are not emotional expressions (Ekman, 1997). Facial gestures are co-speech gestures – configurations of the face, eyes, and/or head that are synchronized with words and other co-speech gestures. Facial gestures are the most frequent facial actions in dialogue, and the majority serve pragmatic (meta-communicative) rather than referential functions. A qualitative microanalysis of a close-call story illustrates three pragmatic facial gestures in their macro- and micro-context: (a) The narrator’s thinking faces (Goodwin & Goodwin, 1986) occurred as the narrator was getting started, and they accompanied verbal collateral signals of delay, such as “uh” or “um”. (b) The narrator pointed at his hand gestures with his head and eyes (Streeck, 1993), drawing the addressee’s attention to depictions that would later be crucial to the close call. (c) The meta-communicative functions of smiles included marking the narrator’s description of danger as ironic or humorous, hinting at key elements, and acknowledging errors.

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会话面部手势的一些语用功能

摘要 对话式面部手势不是情感表达（Ekman，1997）。面部手势是共同语音手势——与单词和其他共同语音手势同步的面部、眼睛和/或头部的配置。面部手势是对话中最常见的面部动作，大多数用于语用（元交流）而不是指称功能。一个近距离故事的定性微观分析在宏观和微观背景下说明了三种务实的面部手势：(a) 叙述者的思考面孔 (Goodwin & Goodwin, 1986) 发生在叙述者开始时，它们伴随着口头旁证延迟信号，例如“uh”或“um”。(b) 叙述者用头和眼睛指着他的手势（Streeck，1993），将收件人的注意力吸引到稍后对近距离通话至关重要的描述上。(c) 微笑的元交际功能包括将叙述者对危险的描述标记为讽刺或幽默、暗示关键要素和承认错误。