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Title: | Revisiting the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis : speech and gesture representation of motion in Danish and Italian |
Authors: | Wessel-Tolvig, Bjørn Paggio, Patrizia |
Keywords: | Speech and gesture Language and languages -- Variation Semantics, Comparative Body language -- Research Speech acts (Linguistics) -- Data processing Contrastive linguistics Typology (Linguistics) Danish language -- Discourse analysis Italian language -- Discourse analysis |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Citation: | Wessel-Tolvig, B., & Paggio, P. (2016). Revisiting the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis : Speech and gesture representation of motion in Danish and Italian. Journal of Pragmatics, 99, 39-61. |
Abstract: | Many studies try to explain thought processes based on verbal data alone and often take the linguistic variation between languages as evidence for cross-linguistic thought processes during speaking. We argue that looking at co-speech gestures might broaden the scope and shed new light on different thinking-for-speaking patterns. Data comes from a corpus study investigating the relationship between speech and gesture in two typologically different languages: Danish, a satellite-framed language and Italian, a verb-framed language. Results show cross-linguistic variation in how motion components are mapped onto linguistic constituents, but also show how Italian speakers to some degree deviate from standard verb-framed lexicalization patterns, and use typical satellite-framed constructions. Co-speech gestures, when they occur, largely follow the patterns used in speech, with a notable exception: In 28% of the cases, in fact, Italian speakers express manner in path-only speech constructions gesturally. This finding suggests that gestures may be instrumental in revealing what semantic components speakers attend to while speaking; in other words, purely verbal data may not fully account for the thinking part of the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103903 |
ISSN: | 03782166 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsLin |
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