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Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating
Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
[Gesture Studies 7] 2017
► pp. 353–377

Chapter 16
The sound of silence

The functions of gestures in pauses in native and non-native interaction

| National Louis University
| Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPL
Article outline
  • Communication
  • Co-speech gestures
  • Speech pauses
  • Gestures with speech pauses
  • Gestures and foreigner talk
  • Gesture and pauses observation
    • Coding scheme for gesture and pauses
  • Functions of gestures in pauses
    • Properties
    • Illustrations of the three main functions of gestures in pauses
      • Production oriented gestures in pauses
      • Interaction oriented gestures in pauses
      • Eliciting answer
      • Helping interlocutor
      • Filling in a sentence
      • Comprehension oriented gestures in pauses
      • Gesturing profiles
  • Discussion and conclusion
  • References
Published online: 26 April 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/gs.7.17sta
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