Loulou Kosmala
[Advances in Interaction Studies 11] 2024
► pp. 191–215
The goal of the present chapter is to further explore the multimodal dimension of inter-(dis)fluency by documenting the different forms and functions of gestures co-occuring with fluencemes, or occurring within their vicinity, in their situated, embodied, and multimodal environment, thus taking a step further from the initial functional classification of gestures used for the quantitative analyses. The present chapter will thus only present detailed qualitative analyses of the data across the two corpora, and pay specific attention to the temporal relationship between (dis)fluency and gesture and their synchronicity in terms of gesture phases, as well as the deployment of different articulators (i.e. hand, face, eyes, shoulders, and trunk) and the shape, configuration, orientation, movement, and position of gestural sequences in the gesture space, following a more form-based approach to gesture (Bressem & Müller, 2014; Ladewig & Bressem, 2013; Müller et al., 2013). Several references will also be made to the gestures analyzed in previous chapters, as to establish a typology of gestural variants in relation to inter-(dis)fluency. The present chapter is structured as follows: I first illustrate the temporal relationship between (dis)fluency and gesture phrasing through several examples on the synchronization of speech and gesture production, then document several visual-gestural practices embodying inter-(dis)fluency.