Chapter 5 Supplement. Exchange on gesture-speech unity

Lopez-Ozieblo, Renia; McNeill, David

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“…A wide body of evidence supports a close link between gesture and speech (Kita 2000;Gullberg 2003;Kendon 2004;Seyfeddinipur 2006;Stam 2018), the two modalities forming one unit (Lopez-Ozieblo & McNeill 2017;McNeill 1992, McNeill 2012, McNeill 2005, McNeill 2015. Evidence of this link has been identified in L1 cut-offs, with co-occurring gestures reflecting speech difficulties.…”

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Cut-offs and co-occurring gestures: Similarities between speakers’ first and second languages

Lopez-Ozieblo

2019

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

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This paper explores cut-offs in the oral narrations of Spanish native speakers in their mother tongue (L1), and in their language-under-study, English (L2). Fluency in the L2 varies with proficiency, and so cut-offs offer a possible means of evaluating this. However, there are certain aspects of fluency which might be common to the L1 and the L2, suggesting that the L1 and L2 share cognitive factors that lead to similar disfluency patterns. To determine if cut-offs are reliable markers of L2 fluency, independent of those occurring in the L1, we assessed the cut-off patterns in the L1 and L2 narrations of this group of speakers, following a multimodal approach. We observed similarities in both languages, potentially indicating that speakers use comparable cut-off-gesture patterns in the L1 and L2. We conclude that using speakers’ cut-offs in an L2 to gauge proficiency is meaningful only if the L1 cut-off behaviour is known.

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Cut-offs and co-occurring gestures: Similarities between speakers’ first and second languages

Lopez-Ozieblo

2019

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

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“…Gestures, for the purposes of this paper, are defined as deliberate and conscious movements of the hands co-occurring with speech and are believed to be part of the speech act (Kendon, 2004). Gestures are not add-ons to speech or indicators of emotions (Müller, 2013a, p.2) but form a unit with speech, externalising the thought in both modalities (Lopez-Ozieblo and McNeill, 2017). Gestures, these deliberate hand movements co-occurring with speech, have been categorised on a continuum (McNeill, 1992) according to their form and relationship with speech.…”

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The Meaning of Teachers’ Negations in Hong Kong Classrooms Interpreted from their Co-occurring Gestures

Lopez-Ozieblo¹

2023

Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects. Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Inte

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Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects. Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction

Roitman¹

2023

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This volume deals with the pragmatic dimension of negations and is oriented towards empirical studies of negatives’ meanings and functions in media and public discourses. Negation is one of our most central phenomena in human language and we use it daily for a vast range of different purposes: for rejection, denial and for expressing non-existence. Negation is certainly one of the most multidimensional and complex units in language, semantically, cognitively and syntactically, as well as from a functional, pragmatic, perspective. Depending of the theoretical framework, sentence negation in particular has been identified as a modal operator, a truth-value operator, a rhetoric device, a figure of thought, a polarity item and a marker of linguistic polyphony and as a linguistic unit with a variety of discursive and contextual meanings. There remain, nevertheless, a large number of unsolved questions regarding negative forms of expressions and negative functions within specific languages, within different social settings and throughout the languages of the world. Thus, by bringing together scholars from different countries, with studies on different languages this volume aims to shed light and contribute to new knowledge about the forms and functionality of this universal phenomenon. Linguists and pragmaticiens generally agree that the use of negatives escapes logic and pure semantic description and is therefore best analysed with tools from cognitive and pragmatic theories. Similar themes connected to negatives approached from different perspectives and examined in different languages offer a contrastive reading that actually enlarges the spectra of new knowledge presented in the books’s chapters. Based on hypotheses within pragmatics and discourse analysis, the main assumption is here that forms of expressing negatives emerge and adjust constantly and in accordance with the cultural domain and the social setting of their appearance. This is why this volume focuses on the functions of negative expressions in specific domains and types of discourses.

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Chapter 5 Supplement. Exchange on gesture-speech unity

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Cut-offs and co-occurring gestures: Similarities between speakers’ first and second languages

Cut-offs and co-occurring gestures: Similarities between speakers’ first and second languages

The Meaning of Teachers’ Negations in Hong Kong Classrooms Interpreted from their Co-occurring Gestures

Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects. Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction

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