Drawing upon corpus analyses of recurrent gestures, a pragmatics perspective on gestural meaning and conventionalization will be developed. Gesture pragmatics is considered in terms of usage-based, embodied and interactively emerging meaning. The article brings together cognitive linguistic, cognitive semiotic and interactional perspectives on meaning making. How the interrelation between different types of context (interactional, semantic/pragmatic/syntactic, distribution across a corpus) with the embodied motivation of kinesic forms in actions and movement experiences of the body might play out in the process of conventionalization is illustrated by discussing three recurrent gestures: the Palm-Up-Open-Hand, the Holding Away, and the Cyclic gesture. By merging conventional and idiosyncratic elements recurrent gestures occupy a place between spontaneously created (singular) gestures and emblems as fully conventionalized gestural expressions on a continuum of increasing conventionalization (cf. Kendon’s continuum: McNeill, 1992 , 2000 ). Recurrent gestures are an interesting case to study how processes of conventionalization may involve emergent de-compositions of gestural movements into smaller concomitant Gestalts (cf. Kendon, 2004 , Chapters 15 & 16). They are particularly revealing in showing how those de-compositional processes are grounded experientially in contexts-of-use and remain grounded in conventionalized, yet still embodied, experiential frames.

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重复手势的含义

利用对重复手势的语料库分析，将开发关于手势意义和约定俗成的语用学观点。手势语用被认为是基于使用的、具体化的和交互出现的意义。这篇文章汇集了关于意义制造的认知语言学、认知符号学和互动观点。不同类型的语境（交互、语义/语用/句法、跨语料库分布）与身体动作和运动体验中的运动形式的具身动机之间的相互关系如何在约定化过程中通过讨论三个来说明重复手势：掌上张开手、握住和循环手势。通过合并常规和特殊元素，重复性手势在自发创建的（单一）手势和标志之间占据一席之地，作为完全常规化的手势表达在不断增加的常规化的连续体中（参见 Kendon 的连续体：McNeill，1992 年，2000 年）。重复性手势是一个有趣的案例，用于研究约定化过程如何将手势运动的紧急分解为更小的伴随格式塔（参见 Kendon，2004 年，第 15 和 16 章）。它们在展示这些分解过程如何在使用环境中以经验为基础，并仍然以常规但仍然具身的经验框架为基础时，特别具有启发性。