Meredith Allison
List of John Benjamins publications for which Meredith Allison plays a role.
Articles
2011 Chapter 4. Dyadic evidence for grounding with abstract deictic gestures Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 49–60 | Chapter
Speakers use gestures to communicate within a dialogue, not as isolated individuals. We therefore analyzed gestural communication within dyadic dialogues. Specifically, we microanalyzed grounding (the sequence of steps by which speaker and addressee ensure their mutual understanding) in a task that… read more
2011 The flexible semantic integration of gestures and words: Comparing face-to-face and telephone dialogues Gesture 11:3, pp. 308–329 | Article
One measure of the communicative function of gestures is to test how speakers’ gestures are influenced by whether an addressee can see them or not, that is, by manipulating visibility between participants. We question traditional dependent variables (i.e., rate measures), suggesting that they may… read more
2009 The relationship between verbal and gestural contributions in conversation: A comparison of three methods Gesture 9:3, pp. 312–336 | Article
Gestures and their concurrent words are often said to be meaningfully related and co-expressive. Research has shown that gestures and words are each particularly suited to conveying different kinds of information. In this paper, we describe and compare three methods for investigating the… read more