Publications

Publication details [#42602]

Brookes, Heather. 2005. What gestures do: Some communicative functions of quotable gestures in conversations among Black urban South Africans. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (12) : 2044–2085.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gesture | speech | spontaneous discourse

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines how three quotable gestures/emblems are employed in spontaneous interaction among Black urban South Africans, and what the features are of their use in relation to speech.