What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse
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 w...
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| description | 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 new 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c0db45fd68174c4082d7ef061a8d4d8e2022-12-21T23:55:12ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-09-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.01935556531What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in DiscourseSandra Debreslioska0Marianne Gullberg1Marianne Gullberg2Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, SwedenCentre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, SwedenLund University Humanities Lab, Lund University, Lund, SwedenThe 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 new 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01935/fullgesturesdiscoursereferenceinformation statusspeech-gesture relationship |
| spellingShingle | Sandra Debreslioska Marianne Gullberg Marianne Gullberg What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse Frontiers in Psychology gestures discourse reference information status speech-gesture relationship |
| title | What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse |
| title_full | What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse |
| title_fullStr | What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse |
| title_short | What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse |
| title_sort | what s new gestures accompany inferable rather than brand new referents in discourse |
| topic | gestures discourse reference information status speech-gesture relationship |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01935/full |
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