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Uncommon resemblance
Gesture ( IF 0.480 ) Pub Date : 2017-06-15 , DOI: 10.1075/gest.16.1.02lem
Michael Lempert 1
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Abstract Research on manual gesture has been preoccupied with unconventionalized and conventionalized extremes. Homesigns developed spontaneously by deaf children unexposed to standardized sign languages have been used as a window onto more general socio-cognitive processes of semiotic systemization. Spontaneous, idiosyncratic gesticulation has been contrasted with shared, highly regimented “emblematic” or “quotable” gestures to reveal a cline of conventionalization. I direct attention here to the vast and relatively understudied middle ground in which manual gesture shows evidence of only partial conventionalization. Using a corpus of televised political debate data from a US presidential campaign cycle, I note, first, that there is nothing as coherent and systematized as a “register” of political gesture here. Focusing on gesture variation in precision-grip and index-finger-extended gestures of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, I identify form-functional “pragmatic affinities” among gestures that have not crystallized into stable types or classes. Dwelling on the specificities of gesture variation, with its mercurial forms and incomplete conventionalization, may allow us to appreciate the processual complexities of gestural enregisterment in social and historical life.

中文翻译:

不寻常的相似之处

摘要 对手势的研究一直专注于非常规和常规的极端。未接触标准化手语的聋童自发开发的家庭标志已被用作了解符号系统化的更一般社会认知过程的窗口。自发的、特殊的手势与共享的、高度规范的“象征性”或“可引用”手势形成对比,以揭示传统化的倾向。在此,我将注意力集中在广泛且相对未充分研究的中间地带,其中手动手势仅显示部分常规化的证据。使用来自美国总统竞选周期的电视政治辩论数据集,我首先指出,这里没有什么比政治姿态的“登记册”更连贯和系统化了。专注于巴拉克奥巴马和希拉里克林顿的精确握持和食指伸展手势中的手势变化,我在尚未具体化为稳定类型或类别的手势中确定了形式功能的“语用亲和力”。关注手势变化的特殊性,其变化无常的形式和不完整的约定俗成,可以让我们了解社会和历史生活中手势记录的过程复杂性。
更新日期:2017-06-15
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