Speech and gesture: an integrational approach  

Oleh:

Moreno-Cabrera, Juan C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 33 no. 4 (2011), page 615-622.
Topik: Speech Gesture Linguistic Communication Syntax Semantics Pragmatics
Fulltext: vol. 33 issue 4 July, 2011. p. 615-622.pdf (173.99KB)

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In this paper, gestures accompanying speech are considered as an integral part of human linguistic communication. It is shown that gestures and speech are functionally convergent: they can be used to fulfill the same linguistic functions in conversation. Then the gestural nature of speech is argued for: since oral gestures produce speech, it can be maintained that speech is also a gestural mean of communication. It is also shown that non-verbal gestures can also take part in the structure of verbal sentences as constituent components playing a regular syntactic role. All these phenomena can be used to argue in favor of an integrational view of human language, in the line of that proposed by Harris

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