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Parrill, Fey. 2009. Dual viewpoint gestures. Gesture 9 (3) : 271–289.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/gest

Annotation

This paper examines gestures that simultaneously express multiple physical perspectives, known as dual viewpoint gestures. These gestures were first discussed in McNeill’s 1992 book, Hand and mind. The paper examines a corpus of approximately fifteen hours of narrative data, and use these data to extend McNeill’s observations about the different possibilities for combining viewpoints. It is also shown that a phenomenon thought to be present only in the narrations of children is present in the narrations of adults. The significance of these gestures for theories of speech-gesture integration is discussed.