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Distant time, distant gesture: speech and gesture correlate to express temporal distance

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dc.contributor.authorValenzuela Manzanares, Javier
dc.contributor.authorAlcaraz Carrión, Daniel
dc.contributor.departmentFilología Inglesa
dc.contributor.otherFacultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-12T18:48:19Z
dc.date.available2026-02-12T18:48:19Z
dc.date.copyright© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
dc.date.issued2021-06-14
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates whether there is a relation between the semantics of linguistic expressions that indicate temporal distance and the spatial properties of their co-speech gestures. To this date, research on time gestures has focused on features such as gesture axis, direction, and shape. Here we focus on a gesture property that has been overlooked so far: the distance of the gesture in relation to the body. To achieve this, we investigate two types of temporal linguistic expressions are addressed: proximal (e.g., near future, near past) and distal (e.g., distant past, distant future). Data was obtained through the NewsScape library, a multimodal corpus of television news. A total of 121 co-speech gestures were collected and divided into the two categories. The gestures were later annotated in terms of gesture space and classified in three categories: (i) center, (ii) periphery, and (iii) extreme periphery. Our results suggest that gesture and language are coherent in the expression of temporal distance: when speakers locate an event far from them, they tend to gesture further from their body; similarly, when locating an event close to them, they gesture closer to their body. These results thus reveal how co-speech gestures also reflect a space-time mapping in the dimension of distance.
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dc.identifier.citationSemiotica, 2021, Vol. 2021, Issue 241
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2019-0120
dc.identifier.eissn1613-3692
dc.identifier.issn0037-1998
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/204741
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDe Gruyter Brill
dc.relationThis work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación & FEDER/UE funds (grant number PGC2018-1551 097658- B-100).
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dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectGesture
dc.subjectMetaphor
dc.subjectMultimodality
dc.subjectTime
dc.subjectMetaphor
dc.subjectMultimodality
dc.subjectTime
dc.subjectMetaphor
dc.subjectMultimodality
dc.subjectTime
dc.subject.odsNo relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.titleDistant time, distant gesture: speech and gesture correlate to express temporal distance
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