Publication: Enaction through co-speech gesture: the rhetorical handing of the mental timeline
Authors
Pagán Cánovas, Cristóbal ; Valenzuela Manzanares, Javier ; Alcaraz Carrión, Daniel
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Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
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De Gruyter Brill
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https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2020-2020
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Abstract
This chapter will explore the embodied, enacted and embedded nature of co-speech gestures in the meaning-making process of time conceptualization. We will review three different contextualized communicative exchanges extracted from American Television interviews. First, we will offer a step-by-step form description of the different gesture realizations performed by the speakers as well as a brief description of the gaze fixation patterns. After that, we will offer a functional analysis which will interpret the gesturing patters in terms of their communicative goals on their respective communicative contexts as well as the complex interplay between verbal and non-verbal communication. The resulting interaction between speech, gesture and other bodily movements give rise to a dynamic system that allows for the construction of highly complex meanings: time co-speech gestures play a crucial role in the simulation of virtual anchors for complex mental networks that integrate conceptual and perceptual information.
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Citation
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2020, Vol. 68, Issue 4, pp. 411-431
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