Gestures

Gestures in Discourse

The communicative roles of gestures during talk in interaction are partly a function of their placement within unfolding turns and action sequences. Gestures occur both as free-standing unit-acts and as components of multimodal turns. A facial gesture, usually enacted with eyebrows and/or the mouth, can occur in the role of operator on a concurrent or

Gestures and Kinesics

Kinesics is the study of bodily movement, including gestures, posture, and movement of the head, arms, legs, or torso (Birdwhistell 1970). Some scholars also include facial expression and eye behavior as kinesic behavior. However, because these behaviors are discussed elsewhere on this website, this article focuses primarily on gestures and bodily movement. In their classic

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