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Children's Gestures in Sweden

In English

Författare

  • Mats Andrén

Redaktör

  • Cornelia Müller
  • Alan Cienki
  • Ellen Fricke
  • Silva Ladewig
  • David McNeill
  • Sedinha Teßendor

Summary, in English

What are Swedish children’s gestures like? How do they change over time in development? How do they relate to spoken language? Is there anything particularly Swedish about them? These questions are all discussed in this paper. The main message is that the overarching patterns of gestural development in Swedish children are similar to what has been found in studies of children in other cultures, but that conventionality — in the sense of culturally established forms of conduct — is a pervasive and somewhat underestimated aspect of children’s gestures. Finally, a distinction between different levels of conventionality is presented — typified and normative conventionality — that makes possible a more nuanced discussion of cultural aspects of gesture.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1282-1289

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Body Language Communication

Volym

2

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

De Gruyter

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • conventionality
  • language
  • children
  • gestures
  • development

Status

Inpress

Projekt

  • Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (RJ)