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Publication details [#57390]
Özyürek, Asli and Emanuela Campisi. 2013. Iconicity as a communicative strategy: Recipient design in multimodal demonstrations for adults and children. Journal of Pragmatics 47 (1) : 14–27.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study shows that during demonstration of an action (in casu Italian subjects explaining in front of a camera how to make coffee), speakers employ various degrees of iconicity in gestures for a child compared to an adult, and how this may constitute a vigorous communicative strategy in teaching new knowledge to children.