Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova
[Human Cognitive Processing, 62] 2018. xviii, 221 pp.
Camille Debras
List of John Benjamins publications for which Camille Debras plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2025 An evidential function of raised eyebrows in interaction: Marking a differential in expectations Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective, Nikiforidou, Kiki and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 190–219 | Chapter
In the course of interaction, raised eyebrows is a facial display that can express a wide range of meanings, e.g. surprise, recognition, salience, or the anticipation of a response. I argue that these meanings are united by a common evidential feature: they mark a relation between the speaker… read more
2021 Chapter 1. Children’s socialization to multi-party interactive practices: Who talks to whom about what in family dinners Language and Social Interaction at Home and School, Caronia, Letizia (ed.), pp. 45–86 | Chapter
Multiparty interactions are crucial situations to study how children can participate in collaborative talk and broaden their experience of various interactional practices. Family dinners are particularly relevant to analyze how children and adults play different participatory roles and how parents… read more
2017 Developing communicative postures: The emergence of shrugging in child communication The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, Morgenstern, Aliyah and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 89–116 | Article
This article analyses the development of a composite communicative posture, the shrug (which can combine palm-up flips, lifted shoulders and a head tilt), in a video corpus of spontaneous interactions between a typically developing British girl, Ellie, and her mother, filmed at home one hour… read more
2017 The shrug: Forms and meanings of a compound enactment Gesture 16:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
The shrug is a widely shared gesture ensemble with several different components. These include: lifting the shoulders; rotating the forearms outwards with extended fingers to a “palm up” position; with mouth firmly closed, pulling the lips downwards (the “mouth shrug”), which may or may not be… read more
2015 Framing, metaphor and dialogue: A multimodal approach to party conference speeches The political impact of metaphors, Perrez, Julien and Min Reuchamps (eds.), pp. 177–204 | Article
This paper considers the Party Conference Speech as a paradigmatic example of effective political discourse, so as to identify and analyse the elements that make for the successful reception of a speech, and determine the ways in which the leader brings about consensus and generates applause.… read more