Structuring information through gesture and intonation
- Face-to-face communication is multimodal. In unscripted spoken discourse we can observe the interaction of several "semiotic layers", modalities of information such as syntax, discourse structure, gesture, and intonation. We explore the role of gesture and intonation in structuring and aligning information in spoken discourse through a study of the co-occurrence of pitch accents and gestural apices. Metaphorical spatialization through gesture also plays a role in conveying the contextual relationships between the speaker, the government and other external forces in a naturally-occurring political speech setting.
Author details: | Stefanie Jannedy, Norma Mendoza-Denton |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8774 |
ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
Title of parent work (German): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2005 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Contributing corporation: | Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur <Berlin> |
Release date: | 2006/09/18 |
Tag: | affect; gesture; intonation; narrative structure; political speech; spoken discourse |
Issue: | 3 |
First page: | 199 |
Last Page: | 244 |
Source: | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | ER 300 |
Organizational units: | Extern / Extern |
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik | |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2005) 03 |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | erschienen in: Approaches and findings in oral, written and gestural language. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2005. - 244 S. (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 3) ISBN 3-937786-01-5 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8255 zugleich in Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam. |