Kasper Kok

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kasper Kok plays a role.

Articles

Based on the Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus (Lücking et al. 2013), this paper presents a systematic comparison of the linguistic characteristics of unimodal (speech only) and multimodal (gesture-accompanied) forms of language use. The results suggest that each of these two modes of… read more
In recent years, consensus has been growing that certain co-speech gestures must be incorporated in grammatical theory. Contrary to traditional beliefs, gestural expression has been found to be systematic in various ways, to exhibit some degree of compositional structure and to be to a certain… read more
Kok, Kasper, Kirsten Bergmann, Alan Cienki and Stefan Kopp 2016 Mapping out the multifunctionality of speakers’ gesturesGesture 15:1, pp. 37–59 | Article
Although it is widely acknowledged that gestures are complex functional elements of human communication, many current functional classification systems are rather rigid, implicitly assuming gestures to perform only one function at any given time. In this paper, we present a theoretical view on the… read more