lack of training in the transcription or analysis
Gestural data are neglected/overlooked by vast majority of linguists and psychologolists or CS/CL.
bimodal lg production, not only written or spoken
Real spoken language production in context is always a multimodal process, performed by a gesturing body embedded in a physical setting. Lakoff and Johnson Our conceptual and linguistic structures could not be as they are if they were not based in human bodily experience of the world.
Lakoff and Gallese Fauconnier and Turner Taub 2001
Gesture can represent iconically spatial relations, motion, paths, shape and size
INTRODUCTION
Gesture analysis is crucial input to mental spaces theory and to CL in general.
CONCLUSION
Gesture varies crosslinguistically and crossculturally.
pointing is universal
BASIC WORK in the field: Kendon and McNeill gestures should be understood as grounded blends of Real Space of other mental spaces
Gesture, viewpoint and deixis other subjective viewpoint phenomena correlate with physical perspective and access to a scene.
Co-speech gesture as a crucial data source in CL EVE SWEETSER (BERKELEY GESTURE PROJECT)
content
Liddell
Speakers of all languages gesture as they produce linguistic discourse, constantly. Co-linguitic gesture is neurally co-processed with language, in tight language-specific neural routines. Strokes are co-timed with the verb in English and with the object in Chinese!
epistemic speech act
Sizemore and Sweetser
gesture and speech are co-produced as a single neural package and a specific pattern of neural packaging is shared by a given language community
Kita 2003
interaction regulation gesture (213)
Language and gesture show systematic use of the same metaphoric systems.
gesture beyond the speaker's personal gesture space happens specifically when the speaker is regulating the conversational exchange;
discourse space structure is equally striking;)
PRIMARY SCENES: WE CO-EXPERIENCE ATTENTIONAL FOCUS, INTERACTIONAL AFFORDANCES AND ALL THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CORRELATES (GRADY!)
Cienki 1998 systematic metaphor gestural structures may occur separately from linguistic metaphor usage, as well as accompany-ing such usage
Mental Spaces theory is how to approach gesture analysis
levels of communicative interaction
metalinguistic Gesture thus not only functions at the same multiple levels of communicative meaning as speech, but spatial divisions in the gesturer's Real Space are relevant to functional levels of communication. Physical spaces once more stand for different Mental Spaces. (important for CL)
McNeill 1992
Gesture track of co-production routine is lees monitored than the linguistic track! Speakers gesture even when not in the physical presence of a viewing intelocutor
Gesture and levels of content GESTURE AS A BACK DOOR TO COGNITION
Goodwin 2000 gives excellent examples of how flexible the connections can be between actual objects pointed to, and intented meaning
When two neural routines are closely correlated in performance, activating one of them will help activation of the other. Goldin-Meadow 2003 hearers make use of speakers' gestural information the head nod or "just right" gesture does not need lg at all but can substitute for words if necessary
nunez and sweetser 2006: Aymara! EMBLEMS or quotable gestures (conventional gestures)
thera are always formed in the same way Calbris 1990 and Kendon 1990, 2004)
like speech, gesture can be transcribed more or less finely; but the standard approximation is that transcribers... (207) TRANSCRIPTION
iconic mappings between the body and represeted content also include: (208)
Gesture, iconicity and levels of abstraction
spatial gesture bibliography (208) Gesture representations of abstract concepts are iconic and metaphoric
Co-speech gesture as a crucial data source in CL EVE SWEETSER (BERKELEY GESTURE PROJECT).mmap - 2010-05-30 - Mindjet
Parill and Sweetser 2004