P. Siitonen, Marika Helisten, M. Siromaa, M. 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 ‘hello’ or ‘goodbye’ is a prevalent practice in video-mediated break openings and closings. By waving their hand(s), which is typically accompanied by a verbal greeting or farewell, participants make their own arrival or departure, or their orientation to the arrival or departure of someone else, visible and explicit. Thus, waving facilitates the management of co-presence in technology-mediated encounters. Further, by waving in conjunction with other upgraded features of openings and closings, participants engage in important relationship maintenance work during their encounter.
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{"title":"Review of Bressem (2021): Repetitions in Gesture: A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective","authors":"Zhibin Peng, M. Afzaal","doi":"10.1075/gest.22002.pen","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.22002.pen","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35125,"journal":{"name":"Gesture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45287262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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 investigating how finger pointing is used to index and coordinate turn-beginnings in a corpus of 11 semi-naturalistic (Norwegian) signed language conversations, involving between two to five signers (3.4 hours of signing). The data was initially annotated in ELAN and then further qualitative analysis was conducted. This investigation revealed that finger pointing effectively indexes previous and upcoming discourse, thereby binding sequences of conversational moves and guiding their trajectory, helping signers to coordinate turn transitions and interaction as it unfolds.
{"title":"Indexing turn-beginnings in Norwegian Sign Language conversation","authors":"Lindsay Ferrara","doi":"10.1075/gest.21004.fer","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.21004.fer","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 It is well known that signers and speakers routinely produce finger points during interaction. While the\u0000 referential functions of such finger points have received great attention from researchers, they are also used to manage\u0000 interactions between interlocutors. These functions are less understood and have received less research focus. The current study\u0000 helps to redress this gap in the literature by investigating how finger pointing is used to index and coordinate turn-beginnings\u0000 in a corpus of 11 semi-naturalistic (Norwegian) signed language conversations, involving between two to five signers (3.4 hours of\u0000 signing). The data was initially annotated in ELAN and then further qualitative analysis was conducted. This investigation\u0000 revealed that finger pointing effectively indexes previous and upcoming discourse, thereby binding sequences of conversational\u0000 moves and guiding their trajectory, helping signers to coordinate turn transitions and interaction as it unfolds.","PeriodicalId":35125,"journal":{"name":"Gesture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42545837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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. The execution parameters and representational strategies observed in gestures and signs were analyzed using the same coding. The results showed that hearing children exposed to Italian and deaf children exposed to Italian Sign Language are consistent in their productions of gestures and signs, respectively. Furthermore, the hearing children’s gestures and the deaf children’s signs for some items were produced with the same parameters and according to similar representational strategies. This indicates that these two forms of communication are not separate behaviors, but should rather be considered as a continuum.
{"title":"Searching for the roots of signs in children’s early gestures","authors":"O. Capirci, Morgana Proietti, V. Volterra","doi":"10.1075/gest.20030.cap","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.20030.cap","url":null,"abstract":"A consolidated tendency considers ‘gestures’ and ‘signs’ as distinct categories separated by a ‘cataclysmic\u0000 break’. According to a different approach, gestures and signs have their common origin in actions, and are considered as part of\u0000 language. The aim of this study was to compare the productions of preschool speaking hearing children and signing deaf children in\u0000 response to the same visual stimuli. The execution parameters and representational strategies observed in gestures and signs were\u0000 analyzed using the same coding. The results showed that hearing children exposed to Italian and deaf children exposed to Italian\u0000 Sign Language are consistent in their productions of gestures and signs, respectively. Furthermore, the hearing children’s\u0000 gestures and the deaf children’s signs for some items were produced with the same parameters and according to similar\u0000 representational strategies. This indicates that these two forms of communication are not separate behaviors, but should rather be\u0000 considered as a continuum.","PeriodicalId":35125,"journal":{"name":"Gesture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46463187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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 gesture space, decreased the encoding of manner, and reduced the use of character-viewpoint gestures. We see the decrease in gesture frequency and the less frequent encoding of manner as indicators of lower levels of iconicity when talking with status superiors. Curtailing gesture marks a less playful communicative context, and a more serious and deferential persona. Altogether, our research speaks to the importance of politeness in gesture production, and the social nature of gestures in human communication.
{"title":"Gestures are modulated by social context","authors":"L. Brown, Hyunji Kim, Iris Hübscher, Bodo Winter","doi":"10.1075/gest.20034.bro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.20034.bro","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan\u0000 participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures\u0000 when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their gesture space, decreased the encoding of manner, and reduced the use of\u0000 character-viewpoint gestures. We see the decrease in gesture frequency and the less frequent encoding of manner as indicators of\u0000 lower levels of iconicity when talking with status superiors. Curtailing gesture marks a less playful communicative context, and a more\u0000 serious and deferential persona. Altogether, our research speaks to the importance of politeness in gesture production, and the social\u0000 nature of gestures in human communication.","PeriodicalId":35125,"journal":{"name":"Gesture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47103403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Further information and weblinks","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/gest.00067.fur","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.00067.fur","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35125,"journal":{"name":"Gesture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47859548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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