Publications

Publication details [#45764]

Ruiter, Jan Jaap de, Sotaro Kita and N.J. Enfield. 2007. Primary and secondary pragmatic functions of pointing gestures. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (10) : 1722–1741.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gesture | information processing | pragmatic function | speech

Language as a subject

Lao

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Using a corpus of video-recorded interviews of “locality description” in rural Laos, this paper discusses how pointing gestures in connection with speech perform two distinct pragmatic functions, namely of carrying primary and secondary information.