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On the lower limit of gesture

In English

Författare

  • Mats Andrén

Redaktör

  • Mandana Seyfeddinipur
  • Marianne Gullberg

Summary, in English

Where, if, and how, should researchers draw the limit between gesture proper and semiotically less complex forms of bodily conduct that do not quite qualify as gesture? This is the question of a lower limit of gesture (Andrén 2010). In accord with a comparative semiotic approach (Kendon 2008) I suggest that the question is best understood, not as a binary distinction between gesture and non-gesture, but as a matter of several different semiotic properties that can vary independently of each other. This involves, in particular, different levels of representational complexity and communicative explicitness. These semiotic properties are both conceptually explicated and applied to empirical examples in this paper, eventually leading me to propose a family resemblance conception of gesture.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Visible Utterance in Action

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • semiotics
  • language
  • gesture

Status

Inpress

Projekt

  • Gestures that involve handling of objects
  • Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (RJ)