In the linguistic-gestural representation of motion events, the past studies showed that manner and path in English are mentioned within one clause, and the two components can be represented together in one gesture. In Turkish and Japanese, they are expressed separately in two clauses, and two separate gestures — one for manner and one for path — are produced accordingly. The present study investigates the linguistic-gestural expression of motion in Mandarin Chinese discourse, and finds that Mandarin speakers predominantly use simple manner verbs to express manner and serial verbs and prepositional phrases to convey path within a clause. In gestural representation, speakers prefer to depict path information only within a clause, be it carrying new or given information. The cross-linguistic differences demonstrate language specificity in linguistic encodings and manual depictions of motion. Such variation in how speech and gesture are used can further suggest language specificity in the conceptualization of motion events.
Özçalışkan, Şeyda, Ché Lucero & Susan Goldin-Meadow
2024. What the development of gesture with and without speech can tell us about the effect of language on thought. Language and Cognition 16:1 ► pp. 220 ff.
Tütüncü, Irmak Su, Jing Paul, Samantha N. Emerson, Murat Şengül, Melanie Knezevic & Şeyda Özçalışkan
2023. When Gestures Do or Do Not Follow Language‐Specific Patterns of Motion Expression in Speech: Evidence from Chinese, English and Turkish. Cognitive Science 47:4
Gawne, Lauren, Chelsea Krajcik, Helene N. Andreassen, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Barbara F. Kelly
2015. Universal Development and L1–L2 Convergence in Bilingual Construal of Manner in Speech and Gesture in Mandarin, Japanese, and English. The Modern Language Journal 99:S1 ► pp. 66 ff.
Dipper, Lucy, Madeleine Pritchard, Gary Morgan & Naomi Cocks
2015. The language–gesture connection: Evidence from aphasia. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 29:8-10 ► pp. 748 ff.
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