All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse

Harrison, Simon, Adolphs, Svenja, Gillon Dowens, Margaret, Du, Ping and Littlemore, Jeannette (2018) All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse. Lingua, 207 . pp. 1-22. ISSN 0024-3841

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Abstract

Language Related Episodes occur when speakers explicitly question lexical and grammatical aspects of the language they are using, resulting in collaborative discourse and assisted performance from peers. This paper demonstrates how such negotiation and repair may occur in relation to the gestural component of a speaker's expression, leading us to introduce the parallel term ‘Gesture Related Episodes’. Our single case analysis reveals a range of issues that have received little attention, including the problems that people experience with gestures, what constitutes struggling in the gestural modality, and how people help each other to gesture more effectively in collaborative discourse. Our discussion links these issues to the L2 concerns and knowledge asymmetries in our data, as well as to conceptual and conventional features of gestures more generally.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/934611
Keywords: Language Related Episodes ; Gestures ; Collaborative discourse ; L1–L2 interaction ; Assisted performance ; Peer dialogue
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of English
University of Nottingham Ningbo China > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of English
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2018.02.002
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 27 Apr 2018 14:53
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:38
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/51450

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