Publications

Publication details [#58378]

Chui, Kawai. 2014. Mimicked gestures and the joint construction of meaning in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 70 : 68–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gesture | joint narration | knowledge | meaning, processing of | speech

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores how mimicked gestures are used along with speech to accomplish joint meaning construction in Mandarin Chinese conversation. The use of cross-modal resources eases the concurrent realization of shared knowledge in gesture and new meaning in speech within clausal units.