Judith Holler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Judith Holler plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1874-6829
Articles
2017 Chapter 10. Multi-modal communication of common ground: A review of social functions Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 213–240 | Chapter
Abstract
Until recently, the literature on common ground depicted its influence as a purely verbal phenomenon. We review current research on how common ground influences gesture. With informative exceptions, most experiments found that speakers used fewer gestures as well as fewer… read more
2011 Chapter 22. Speakers’ use of ‘action’ and ‘entity’ gestures with definite and indefinite references Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 293–308 | Chapter
Common ground is an essential prerequisite for coordination in social interaction, including language use. When referring back to a referent in discourse, this referent is ‘given information’ and therefore in the interactants’ common ground. When a referent is being referred to for the first time,… read more
2003 Pragmatic aspects of representational gestures: Do speakers use them to clarify verbal ambiguity for the listener? Gesture 3:2, pp. 127–154 | Article
Two studies are reported that investigate how speakers use gesture in association with verbal ambiguity in two communicational situations characteristic of everyday talk. The first study uses a design that mimics a speaker’s self-repair initiated by the listener, while the second study involves… read more