Abstract This paper proposes a novel analysis of deictic gestures which yields a taxonomy of manual pointing. ‘Gesture form analysis’ brings into relief the diversity of pointing by considering the imaginary forms necessarily involved in interpreting a gesture. It combines into a single framework insights found in the literature on how the meaning of any gesture is enabled by a series of spatial operations leading from the physical form of the articulators to the form of the target. Seven distinct spatial operations combine to define a gesture type, twenty-seven of which are illustrated with examples from open-data corpora. Most types involve not the prototypical linear vector of pointing, but the plane of an open hand. Not only deictic, but also iconic and other functions are shown to be rooted in imaginary forms and their ability to draw attention to and specify locations, directions, areas and volumes of space.

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指向的多维性

摘要 本文提出了一种对指示手势的新颖分析，该分析产生了手动指向的分类。“手势形式分析”通过考虑解释手势所必需的想象形式，使指向的多样性变得更加清晰。它将文献中关于如何通过从咬合器的物理形式到目标的形式的一系列空间操作启用任何手势的含义的见解结合到一个单一的框架中。七种不同的空间操作结合起来定义了一种手势类型，其中的 27 种用来自开放数据语料库的例子来说明。大多数类型不涉及指向的原型线性向量，而是涉及张开的手的平面。不仅指示，