What’s new? : Gestures accompany inferable rather than brand-new referents in discourse
(2020) In Frontiers in Psychology 11.- Abstract
- The literature on bimodal discourse reference has shown that gestures are sensitive to referents’ information status in discourse. Gestures occur more often with new referents/first mentions than with given referents/subsequent mentions. However, because not all new entities at first mention occur with gestures, the current study examines whether gestures are sensitive to a difference in information status between brand-new and inferable entities, and variation in nominal definiteness. Unexpectedly, the results show that gestures are more frequent with inferable referents (hearer-new but discourse-old) than with brand-new referents (hearer- and discourse-new). The findings reveal new aspects of the relationship between gestures and speech... (More)
- The literature on bimodal discourse reference has shown that gestures are sensitive to referents’ information status in discourse. Gestures occur more often with new referents/first mentions than with given referents/subsequent mentions. However, because not all new entities at first mention occur with gestures, the current study examines whether gestures are sensitive to a difference in information status between brand-new and inferable entities, and variation in nominal definiteness. Unexpectedly, the results show that gestures are more frequent with inferable referents (hearer-new but discourse-old) than with brand-new referents (hearer- and discourse-new). The findings reveal new aspects of the relationship between gestures and speech in discourse, specifically suggesting a complementary (disambiguating) function for gestures in the context of first mentioned discourse entities. The results thus highlight the multi-functionality of gestures in relation to speech. (Less)
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- Debreslioska, Sandra LU and Gullberg, Marianne LU
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- 2020-09-23
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- Contribution to journal
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- gestures, discourse, reference, information status, speech-gesture relationship, visual language, Information structure, new/given information
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- Frontiers in Psychology
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- 11
- article number
- 1935
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- Frontiers Media S. A.
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- scopus:85092474388
- pmid:33071835
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- 1664-1078
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- 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01935
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- English
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