The Effect of visibility gesture production and their relation with accuracy : listening to our hands
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The Effect of visibility gesture production and their relation with accuracy : listening to our handsAuthor (s)
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Beltrán Palanques, VicenteTutor/Supervisor; University.Department
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosDate
2016-10-18Publisher
Universitat Jaume IAbstract
Do we only gesture for our listeners? This study examined the relation between gestures and
visibility, looking at how gesture production is affected in visibility and nonvisible conditions.
Participants were paired ... [+]
Do we only gesture for our listeners? This study examined the relation between gestures and
visibility, looking at how gesture production is affected in visibility and nonvisible conditions.
Participants were paired and they had to give directions to their partners both by telephone and face-toface.
They transmitted a previously given route while they were video recorded with a visible camera
for later observation. McNeill (1992), categorised gestures in iconic, metaphoric, beats, and abstract
deictics, this taxonomy was adopted in this experiment to classify participants' gestures. Moreover, the
internalisation of the route process was also video recorded to observe if they produced any gesture
outside the communicative situation, and a succeeding individual interview was realised to each
participant to obtain more information for better understanding of the results. Accuracy was also
observed to look at the connection between gesture production and the success in communication.
Participants showed a higher amount of gestures in visibility conditions, and the effect of this variable
was especially present in abstract deictics, but in most of the cases, these gestures also performed a beat
function. In terms of accuracy, the ones who produced more gestures achieved greater accuracy than
those pairs who displayed less gestures. The examination of the internalisation of the route showed one
pair gesturing in a non communicative situation, thus not gesturing for any listener. These findings
suggest that visibility has a huge effect in gesture production. In the same way, gesture production
seems to increase the possibilities of success in communication. Finally, the examination of gestures in
a non communicative situation suggests that they do not only serve for communicative purposes but for
speaker-internal processes such as creating a cognitive map of the ideas of their later speech. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos.Codi: EA0938. Curs: 2015/2016
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