The content of the message influences the hand choice in co-speech gestures and in gesturing without speaking  

Oleh:

Lausberg, Hedda ; Kita, Sotaro

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 86 no. 1 (2003), page 57-69.
Topik: Gestures; Co-speech gestures; Hand preference; Language lateralization; Speech–gesture coordination; Non-verbal communication; Iconic gestures; Hemispheric specialization
Fulltext: 86_01_Lausberg.pdf (228.95KB)

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The present study investigates the hand choice in iconic gestures that accompany speech. In 10 right-handed subjects gestures were elicited by verbal narration and by silent gestural demonstrations of animations with two moving objects. In both conditions, the left-hand was used as often as the right-hand to display iconic gestures. The choice of the right- or left-hands was determined by semantic aspects of the message. The influence of hemispheric language lateralization on the hand choice in co-speech gestures appeared to be minor. Instead, speaking seemed to induce a sequential organization of the iconic gestures.

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