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Publication details [#54917]

Tutton, Mark. 2011. How speakers gesture when encoding location with English on and French sur. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (14) : 3431–3454.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

direction | gesture | information processing | location description | preposition

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article explores how speakers gesture when employing English on and French sur to encode location. It is concluded that gesture's role in location communication is closely related to the expression of directional, in contrast to topological, information.