This article examines the formal and functional features of a recurring ‘away’ gesture in Syuba (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal). The formal properties of this gesture include a pronation of the forearms to bring the palms downward while the fingers spread away, and is most often performed with both hands. Functionally, it is found with utterances that signal negation, particularly the absence of something. A growing body of literature links ‘away’ trajectories with negation, or negative evaluation of speech content cross-linguistically. The temporal alignment between these gesture and lexical content also shows that cross-linguistic differences in word order appear to affect performance of gestures associated with negated content.

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Syuba（尼泊尔加盖特）讲者的叙事性话语中与否定表达有关的“离开”手势

本文研究了Syuba（尼泊尔Tibeto-Burman）中反复出现的“离开”手势的形式和功能特征。此手势的正式属性包括前臂的内旋，以在手指张开时将手掌向下放，并且通常用双手执行。从功能上讲，发现带有发声表示否定，特别是缺少某些东西的发声。越来越多的文献将“离开”的轨迹与否定或跨语言的语音内容的负面评价联系起来。这些手势和词汇内容之间的时间对齐也表明，单词顺序的跨语言差异似乎会影响与否定内容关联的手势的性能。