Does gesturing primarily serve speaker internal purposes, or does it mostly facilitate communication, for example by conveying semantic content, or easing social interaction? To address this question, we asked native speakers of Dutch to retell an animated cartoon to a presumed audiovisual summarizer, a presumed addressee in another room (through web cam), or an addressee in the same room, who could either see them and be seen by them or not. We found that participants produced the least number of gestures when talking to the presumed summarizer. In addition, they produced a smaller proportion of large gestures and almost no pointing gestures. Two perception experiments revealed that observers are sensitive to this difference in gesturing. We conclude that gesture production is not a fully automated speech facilitation process, and that it can convey information about the communicative setting a speaker is in.
2015. Reduction in gesture during the production of repeated references. Journal of Memory and Language 79-80 ► pp. 1 ff.
Bavelas, Janet, Jennifer Gerwing & Sara Healing
2014. Effect of Dialogue on Demonstrations: Direct Quotations, Facial Portrayals, Hand Gestures, and Figurative References. Discourse Processes 51:8 ► pp. 619 ff.
Hoetjes, Marieke, Emiel Krahmer & Marc Swerts
2014. Does our speech change when we cannot gesture?. Speech Communication 57 ► pp. 257 ff.
Hoetjes, Marieke, Emiel Krahmer & Marc Swerts
2015. On what happens in gesture when communication is unsuccessful. Speech Communication 72 ► pp. 160 ff.
Belhiah, Hassan
2013. Using the Hand to Choreograph Instruction: On the Functional Role of Gesture in Definition Talk. The Modern Language Journal 97:2 ► pp. 417 ff.
Campisi, Emanuela & Asli Özyürek
2013. Iconicity as a communicative strategy: Recipient design in multimodal demonstrations for adults and children. Journal of Pragmatics 47:1 ► pp. 14 ff.
Miwa, Kazuhisa & Hitoshi Terai
2012. Impact of two types of partner, perceived or actual, in human–human and human–agent interaction. Computers in Human Behavior 28:4 ► pp. 1286 ff.
Holler, Judith & Katie Wilkin
2011. An experimental investigation of how addressee feedback affects co-speech gestures accompanying speakers’ responses. Journal of Pragmatics 43:14 ► pp. 3522 ff.
Holler, Judith & Katie Wilkin
2011. Co-Speech Gesture Mimicry in the Process of Collaborative Referring During Face-to-Face Dialogue. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 35:2 ► pp. 133 ff.
Kelly, Spencer, Kelly Byrne & Judith Holler
2011. Raising the Ante of Communication: Evidence for Enhanced Gesture Use in High Stakes Situations. Information 2:4 ► pp. 579 ff.
Koolen, Ruud, Albert Gatt, Martijn Goudbeek & Emiel Krahmer
2011. Factors causing overspecification in definite descriptions. Journal of Pragmatics 43:13 ► pp. 3231 ff.
Mol, Lisette, Emiel Krahmer, Alfons Maes & Marc Swerts
2011. Seeing and Being Seen: The Effects on Gesture Production. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 17:1 ► pp. 77 ff.
Mol, Lisette, Emiel Krahmer, Alfons Maes & Marc Swerts
2012. Adaptation in gesture: Converging hands or converging minds?. Journal of Memory and Language 66:1 ► pp. 249 ff.
Swerts, Marc & Emiel Krahmer
2010. Visual prosody of newsreaders: Effects of information structure, emotional content and intended audience on facial expressions. Journal of Phonetics 38:2 ► pp. 197 ff.
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