Kenneth Holmqvist
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kenneth Holmqvist plays a role.
2006 What speakers do and what addressees look at: Visual attention to gestures in human interaction live and on video Pragmatics & Cognition 14:1, pp. 53–82 | Article
This study investigates whether addressees visually attend to speakers’ gestures in interaction and whether attention is modulated by changes in social setting and display size. We compare a live face-to-face setting to two video conditions. In all conditions, the face dominates as a fixation… read more
1999 Keeping an eye on gestures: Visual perception of gestures in face-to-face communication Pragmatics & Cognition 7:1, pp. 35–63 | Article
Since listeners usually look at the speaker's face, gestural information has to be absorbed through peripheral visual perception. In the literature, it has been suggested that listeners look at gestures under certain circumstances: 1) when the articulation of the gesture is peripheral; 2) when the… read more
1999 Conceptual Engineering Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition, Allwood, Jens and Peter Gärdenfors (eds.), pp. 153–172 | Article
1997 Focus Movements and the Internal Images of Spoken Discourse Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics, Liebert, Wolf-Andreas, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh (eds.), pp. 223–246 | Article