Sikveland, Rein Ove and Ogden, Richard Albert orcid.org/0000-0002-5315-720X (2012) Holding gestures across turns:Moments to generate shared understanding. Gesture. pp. 166-199. ISSN 1569-9773
Abstract
A norm in co-speech gesture is that a speaker only gestures while speaking. In this paper, we consider how participants in Norwegian conversation use gestures held beyond the end of a turn-at-talk as a way to handle issues of shared understanding. Analysis combining the techniques of conversation analysis, linguistic, phonetic and visual analysis, demonstrates how participants use and orient to such held gestures as displays of occasions where participants do not (yet) have a shared understanding. The paper discusses how understanding is explicitly brought forward in a sequence of turns, and how shared understandings are reached and marked through a combination of spoken and gestural elements. The paper emphasises the temporal progressivity of talk, the delicate timing of speech and gesture relative to one another, and the participants’ collaboration in successfully achieving and maintaining intersubjectivity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | intersubjectivity, turn construction,social action,gesture hold,interactional gesture,turn-taking ,understanding,enchrony |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN COMMISSION MRTN-CT-2006-035561 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2013 14:49 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2025 23:05 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.12.2.03sik |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1075/gest.12.2.03sik |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:75687 |