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Publication details [#31399]

Özyürek, Asli. 2002. Do Speakers Design Their Cospeech Gestures for Their Addressees? The Effects of Addressee Location on Representational Gestures. Journal of Memory and Language 46 (4) : 688–704.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | gesture | language use | message1 | speaker

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0749-596X

Journal WWW

www.idealibrary.com/

Annotation

This study shows that speakers design their gestures for their addressees, thus using them as a means of communication. This has implications for the view that gestures are a part of language use and for the role of gestures in speech production.