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Publication details [#61316]

Wessel-Tolvig, Bjørn and Patrizia Paggio. 2016. Revisiting the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis: Speech and gesture representation of motion in Danish and Italian. Journal of Pragmatics 99 : 39–61.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | gesture | movement | representational structure | thought

Language as a subject

Danish | Italian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Using a corpus study on the link between speech and co-speech gestures in two typologically diverse languages, Italian and Danish, it is argued that solely verbal data may not entirely explain the thinking part of the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis.