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Review of Bressem (2021): Repetitions in Gesture: A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Zhibin Peng, Muhammad Afzaal
This article reviews Repetitions in Gesture: A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective 9783110697728€99,95
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Review of Galhano-Rodrigues, Galvão & Cruz-Santos (2019): Recent perspectives on gesture and multimodality Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Xi Wang, Fangfei Lv
This article reviews Recent perspectives on gesture and multimodality 978-1-5275-3536-7
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Automatic tool to annotate smile intensities in conversational face-to-face interactions Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Stéphane Rauzy, Mary Amoyal
This study presents an automatic tool that allows to trace smile intensities along a video record of conversational face-to-face interactions. The processed output proposes a sequence of adjusted time intervals labeled following the Smiling Intensity Scale (Gironzetti, Attardo, and Pickering, 2016), a 5 levels scale varying from neutral facial expression to laughing smile. The underlying statistical
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Iconic gestures serve as primes for both auditory and visual word forms Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Iván Sánchez-Borges, Carlos J. Álvarez
Previous studies using cross-modal semantic priming have found that iconic gestures prime target words that are related with the gestures. In the present study, two analogous experiments examined this priming effect presenting prime and targets in high synchrony. In Experiment 1, participants performed an auditory primed lexical decision task where target words (e.g., “push”) and pseudowords had to
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The Raised Index Finger gesture in Hebrew multimodal interaction Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Anna Inbar
The present study examines the roles that the gesture of the Raised Index Finger (RIF) plays in Hebrew multimodal interaction. The study reveals that the RIF is associated with diverse linguistic phenomena and tends to appear in contexts in which the speaker presents a message or speech act that violates the hearer’s expectations (based on either general knowledge or prior discourse). The study suggests
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Co-speech gestures can interfere with learning foreign language words* Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Elena Nicoladis, Paula Marentette, Candace Lam
Co-speech gestures can help the learning, processing, and memory of words and concepts, particularly motoric and spatial concepts such as verbs. The purpose of the present studies was to test whether co-speech gestures support the learning of words through gist traces of movement. We asked English monolinguals to learn 40 Cantonese words (20 verbs and 20 nouns). In two studies, we found support for
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Searching for the roots of signs in children’s early gestures Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Olga Capirci, Morgana Proietti, Virginia Volterra
A consolidated tendency considers ‘gestures’ and ‘signs’ as distinct categories separated by a ‘cataclysmic break’. According to a different approach, gestures and signs have their common origin in actions, and are considered as part of language. The aim of this study was to compare the productions of preschool speaking hearing children and signing deaf children in response to the same visual stimuli
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Gestures are modulated by social context Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Lucien Brown, Hyunji Kim, Iris Hübscher, Bodo Winter
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their
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Coordinating and sharing gesture spaces in collaborative reasoning Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Robert F. Williams
In collaborative reasoning about what causes the seasons, phases of the moon, and tides, participants (three to four per group) introduce ideas by gesturing depictively in personal space. Other group members copy and vary these gestures, imbuing their gesture spaces with similar conceptual properties. This leads at times to gestures being produced in shared space as members elaborate and contest a
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Managing co-presence with a wave of the hand Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Pauliina Siitonen, Marika Helisten, Maarit Siromaa, Mirka Rauniomaa, Mari Holmström
The article examines naturally-occuring video-mediated breaks from work as social activity and focuses on the use of waving gestures in their openings and closings. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis as a research method and recorded virtual breaks of two work communities in Finland as data, the study shows that, contrary to openings and closings in a physical breakroom at the workplace, waving
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A recurring absence gesture in Northern Pastaza Kichwa Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Alexander Rice
In this paper I posit the use of a spread-fingered hand torque gesture among speakers of Northern Pastaza Kichwa (Quechuan, Ecuador) as a recurrent gesture conveying the semantic theme of absence. The data come from a documentary video corpus collected by multiple researchers. The gesture prototypically takes the form of at least one pair of rapid rotations of the palm (the torque). Fingers can be
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Indexing turn-beginnings in Norwegian Sign Language conversation Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Lindsay Ferrara
It is well known that signers and speakers routinely produce finger points during interaction. While the referential functions of such finger points have received great attention from researchers, they are also used to manage interactions between interlocutors. These functions are less understood and have received less research focus. The current study helps to redress this gap in the literature by
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Handling talk Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Jana Bressem, Claudia Wegener
This paper discusses how a particular type of recurrent gesture, the holding away gesture, highlights and structures spoken utterances in German and Savosavo, a Papuan language spoken in Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. In particular, the paper poses the following questions: What kinds of discursive functions of this gesture are observable in these speech communities? How do they map onto
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The diversity of recurrency Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig, Jana Bressem
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Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Caroline de Dear, Joe Blythe, Francesco Possemato, Lesley Stirling, Rod Gardner, Ilana Mushin, Frances Kofod
It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages like Guugu Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent topographic features is a consequence of absolute frame of reference being dominant in these languages; and that the lackadaisical points produced by North American English speakers is an outcome of relative frame being dominant
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Representational gestures correlated with meaning-associated aspects of L2 speech performance Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Sai Ma, Guangsa Jin, Michael Barlow
Gesture and speech are closely associated channels involved in conveying meaning. Previous studies have reported the relationship between gesture use and speech performance for highly proficient speakers. This study extends the investigation of this relationship by correlating the representational gesture rate and complexity, accuracy, and fluency measures for L2 speech produced by lower-intermediate-level
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High verbal working memory load impairs gesture-speech integration Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Kendra G. Kandana Arachchige, Henning Holle, Mandy Rossignol, Isabelle Simoes Loureiro, Laurent Lefebvre
While previous studies have shown the importance of visuo-spatial working memory in the processing of co-speech iconic gestures, clear evidence for a potential involvement of the verbal working memory (vWM) is currently lacking. To address this issue, participants in the present study were presented with a dual task paradigm. The main outcome variable was the performance on a Stroop-like gesture task
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The role of language proficiency, gender, and language dominance in using co-speech gestures to identify referents in narratives by Persian-English bilinguals Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Azizollah Dabaghi Varnosfadrani, Mahbube Tavakol
The research reported here examined the effects of language proficiency, gender, and language dominance on gesture use in the tracking of referents by Persian-English bilinguals. 32 EFL learners were divided into two groups of highly proficient and less proficient speakers with equal number of males and females in each group. They were presented with a video extract and asked to recount the story in
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Recurrent gestures throughout bodies, languages, and cultural practices Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig
In gesture studies, the adjective ‘recurrent’ has developed to distinguish a range of semiotic and conceptual phenomena concerning the nature of meaningful bodily movements. This article begins with a brief and recent history of recurrent gesture studies. We raise ongoing debates concerning the position of recurrent gestures on the so-called Kendon’s continuum, the relation between gestures and practical
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The Slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Silva H. Ladewig, Lena Hotze
This paper introduces the Slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike or meta-commentary recurring in conflictive situations between German children aged four to six (Hotze, 2019). Children move this way primarily in stopping a co-participant’s action and protesting against the action to be stopped. The Slapping movements documented showed different manners of execution. Some forms appeared
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French and British children’s shrugs Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Aliyah Morgenstern
This paper presents a multimodal and form-based approach to language development grounded in situated practices and focuses on the longitudinal analysis of a composite gesture, the shrug, in two datasets of mother-child interactions in French and British English. The shrug in its full-fledged form can combine a palm-up, lifted shoulders, a head tilt, raised eyebrows and a mouth shrug (Kendon, 2004;
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Handling language Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-11-22
Abstract This paper addresses the question of how speakers adapt their gestures according to their interlocutor’s proficiency level in the language of the interaction especially in the specific context of foreign language teaching. We know that speakers make changes in their speech when addressing a non-native speaker, called Foreigner Talk (Ferguson, 1975) to make their speech more comprehensible
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Discourse markers in relation tonon-verbal behavior Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Izidor Mlakar, Matej Rojc, Simona Majhenič, Darinka Verdonik
The research proposed in this paper focuses on pragmatic interlinks between discourse markers and non-verbal behavior. Although non-verbal behavior is recognized to add non-redundant information and social interaction is not merely recognized as the transmission of words and sentences, the evidence regarding grammatical/linguistic interlinks between verbal and non-verbal concepts are vague and limited
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Gesture development in Peruvianchildren and its relationship with vocalizations and vocabulary Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 María Fernández-Flecha, María Blume, Andrea Junyent, Talía Tijero Neyra
We examine gestural development, and correlations between gesture types, vocalizations and vocabulary at ages 8 to 15 months, employing data from MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories for Peruvian Spanish, in the first such study with Peruvian children. Results show (1) significant change with age in the production of gesture types, with older children producing more; (2) important
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Interactional gestures as soccer celebrations Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Celina Heliasz-Nowosielska
The article presents a variety of gesture types used as celebrations during or after soccer matches and explains the forms, meaning, reference and functions of the gestures as a semiotic phenomenon. The qualitative analysis of media images and comments on celebratory performances shows that pre-planned, creative celebrations, including trademarks or signatures, which have recently overshadowed spontaneous
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Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Kirsty E. Graham,Takeshi Furuichi,Richard W. Byrne
Abstract In most languages, individual words can be ambiguous between several different meanings, but through syntax and context the intended meaning of an ambiguous word usually becomes apparent. Many great ape gestures also have ambiguous meanings, which poses the problem of how individuals can interpret the signaller’s intended meaning in specific instances. We tested the effects of sequence compositionality
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Silence gestures revisited Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Søren Beck Nielsen
AbstractThis paper revives an interest in a gestural phenomenon: silence gestures, that is, cases where speakers suspend talk and produce a gesture in momentary silence. Earlier research noted this phenomenon, but largely left interactional details unaddressed. Consequently, we have known of the phenomenon for a long time, but known very little about how interactants use it. This study applies conversation
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“When you were that little…” Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Josefina Safar
Abstract In this article, I analyse how conventional height-specifier gestures used by speakers of Yucatec Maya become incorporated into Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs). Combining video-data from elicitation, narratives, conversations and interviews collected from YMSL signers from four communities as well as from hearing nonsigners from another Yucatec Maya village, I compare form, meaning and
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Gestures in patients’ presentation of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Agnieszka Sowińska,Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska
AbstractThe aim of this paper is to explore speech-accompanying gesture use in presentation of medically unexplainedsymptoms (MUS). The data are 19 video-filmed semi-structured interviews with patients presenting MUS. Four patterns of gesturalbehaviors are established in symptom presentation: (1) No gesturing; (2) Overall low gesture rate; (3) Overall high gesture ratewith low rate for symptoms; (4)
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The more you move, the more action you construct Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Tommi Jantunen,Danny De Weerdt,Birgitta Burger,Anna Puupponen
AbstractThis paper investigates, with the help of motion capture data processed on corpus principles, the characteristicsof head and upper-torso movements in constructed action and regular narration (i.e., signing without constructed action) in FinSL.Specifically, the paper evaluates the validity of two arguments concerning constructed action: that constructed action forms acontinuum with regular narration
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Emotion matters Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Rachel S. Levy,Spencer D. Kelly
AbstractRecent theories and neural models of co-speech gesture have extensively considered its cognitive role in language comprehension but have ignored the emotional function. We investigated the integration of speech and co-speech gestures in memory for verbal information with different emotional connotations (either positive, negative, or neutral). In a surprise cued-recall task, gesture boosted
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Gestural symbolic strategies in children with Down syndrome Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Arianna Bello,Silvia Stefanini,Pasquale Rinaldi,Daniela Onofrio,Virginia Volterra
AbstractIn early communicative development, children with Down syndrome (DS) make extensive use of gestures to compensate for articulatory difficulties. Here, we analyzed the symbolic strategies that underlie this gesture production, compared to that used by typically developing children. Using the same picture-naming task, 79 representational gestures produced by 10 children with DS and 42 representational
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Why do we shake our heads? Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Fabian Bross
Abstract This article discusses several arguments in favor of the hypothesis that the headshake as a gesture for negation has its origins in early childhood experiences. It elaborates on Charles Darwin’s observation that children inevitably shake their heads in order to stop food intake when sated, thereby establishing a connection between rejection and the head gesture. It is argued that later in
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Social hyperscanning with fNIRS Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Michela Balconi,Angela Bartolo,Giulia Fronda
Abstract The interest of neuroscience has been aimed at the investigation of the neural bases underlying gestural communication. This research explored the intra- and inter-brain connectivity between encoder and decoder. Specifically, adopting a “hyperscanning paradigm” with the functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) cerebral connectivity in oxygenated (O2Hb) and deoxygenated (HHb) hemoglobin
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“How do you even know what ideophones mean?” Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Janis B. Nuckolls
AbstractUsing data from the Northern Pastaza (qvc) and Upper Napo Quichua (quw) dialects of Amazonian Ecuador, this paper argues that the semantics of ideophones, a highly marked form class of expressive words, is principled and describable with a combination of sensori-semantic features and a fine-grained typology of gestures, based on insights from Streeck (2008) and others. Specifically, ideophones’
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Learning from an avatar video instructor Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Nicholas A. Vest,Emily R. Fyfe,Mitchell J. Nathan,Martha W. Alibali
AbstractTeachers often produce gestures, and, in some cases, students mimic their teachers’ gestures and adopt them into their own repertoires. However, little research has explored the role of gesture mimicry in technology-based learning contexts. In this research, we examined variations in the rate and form of students’ gestures when learning from a computer-animated pedagogical avatar. Twenty-four
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Embodying kin-based respect in speech, sign, and gesture Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Jennifer Green
AbstractIn Australian Indigenous societies the means for demonstrating kinship-based respect are rich and varied, and mastery of their ideological and contextual dimensions is highly valued and an indication of communicative expertise. Special speech registers, sometimes referred to as ‘mother-in-law’, ‘brother-in-law’, or ‘avoidance’ languages, are one aspect of this complexity. Another dimension
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What is an anthropology of gesture? Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Michael Lempert
AbstractFor gesture research outside anthropology, the promise – and challenge – of anthropological method stems from one or more of its core commitments: its pursuit of human variation, both diachronic and synchronic; its insistence on naturalistic rather than experimental research design; and its integrative sensibility that situates human behavior in relation to an expansive sociocultural context
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Space as space and space as grammar Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 John B. Haviland
AbstractResearch on narratives in an Australian language demonstrated surprising facts about speakers’ spatial orientation and knowledge both in the insistent use of morphologically hypertrophied spoken directional terminology and in accompanying gestures. Pursuing comparable phenomena in a Mayan language from the other side of the globe revealed correspondingly complex gestural devices for communicating
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Body-directed gesture and expressions of social difference in Chachi and Afro-Ecuadorian discourse Gesture (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Simeon Floyd
AbstractThis paper presents an analysis of a data set consisting of instances of body-directed gesture that occurred in racializing expressions of social difference during ethnographic interviews with two neighboring peoples of Ecuador: the indigenous Chachi, speakers of the Cha’palaa language, and Afro-Descendant people, who speak a variety of Spanish. When talking about differences among social groups