Sustained pointing gestures in instructions and questions: How the temporal extent of a gesture matters in interaction
- Gestures can be brief and compact in their execution, but also elaborate and extended. One way to utilise this kinetic flexibility is to extend one’s gesture in time by holding it in its stroke position. This study explores the interactional function of gestural holds by investigating pointing gestures that are sustained beyond a sequence-initiating turn and into the responsive space following it. The study draws on video data from naturally occurring conversations in German and focuses on held pointing gestures after instructions and questions. It is shown that in both action environments, participants delay gestural closure to indicate that they still consider the addressee’s response to be insufficient.
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| Author: | Mojenn SchubertORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-126075 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v7i2.137058 |
| ISSN: | 2446-3620 |
| Parent Title (English): | Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality |
| Publisher: | Royal Danish Library |
| Place of publication: | Kopenhagen |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/04/08 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | TRP; gestural hold; instructions; pointing gesture; questions |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Handgeste; Instruktion; Konversation; Video |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 31 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
| Program areas: | Pragmatik |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International |