Coordinating Gesture, Talk, and Gaze in Reenactments

Sidnell, Jack

doi:10.1207/s15327973rlsi3904_2

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“…In fact, Johnston (1991), van Hoek (1992 and Janzen (2004) argue that the use of space in sign languages is never truly arbitrary. Additionally, this motivated use of space is not different from non-signers who also use multimodal resources in face-to-face interaction, including space as well as their body, face, head and eyegaze in motivated ways (Sidnell 2006, Stukenbrock 2014. There is no reason to expect that signers would not exploit space and manual/nonmanual articulators in similar ways.…”

Section: Indicating Verbs Shifted Use Of Space and Constructed Actionmentioning

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Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour motivated use of space

Cormier¹,

Fenlon²,

Schembri³

2015

Open Linguistics

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Sign languages have traditionally been described as having a distinction between (1) arbitrary (referential or syntactic) space, considered to be a purely grammatical use of space in which locations arbitrarily represent concrete or abstract subject and/or object arguments using pronouns or indicating verbs, for example, and (2) motivated (topographic or surrogate) space, involving mapping of locations of concrete referents onto the signing space via classifier constructions. Some linguists have suggested that it may be misleading to see the two uses of space as being completely distinct from one another. In this study, we use conversational data from the British Sign Language Corpus (www.bslcorpusproject.org) to look at the use of space with modified indicating verbs -specifically the directions in which these verbs are used as well as the co-occurrence of eyegaze shifts and constructed action. Our findings suggest that indicating verbs are frequently produced in conditions that use space in a motivated way and are rarely modified using arbitrary space. This contrasts with previous claims that indicating verbs in BSL prototypically use arbitrary space. We discuss the implications of this for theories about grammaticalisation and the role of gesture in sign languages and for sign language teaching.

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Section: Indicating Verbs Shifted Use Of Space and Constructed Actionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour motivated use of space

Cormier¹,

Fenlon²,

Schembri³

2015

Open Linguistics

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“…In this work, we modeled two particular aspects of gesture with respect to speech: gesture points, the points in speech where the speaker displays gestures, and gesture timing, the times when a gesture begins and ends. We also modeled gesture-contingent gaze cues, gaze cues displayed during gesturing, based on research that has identified interdependencies between gestures, speech, and gaze [32,33].…”

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Modeling and Evaluating Narrative Gestures for Humanlike Robots

Huang

Mutlu

2013

Robotics: Science and Systems IX

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Abstract-Gestures support and enrich speech across various forms of communication. Effective use of gestures by speakers improves not only the listeners' comprehension of the spoken material but also their perceptions of the speaker. How might robots use gestures to improve human-robot interaction? What gestures are most effective in achieving such improvements? This paper seeks answers to these questions by presenting a model of human gestures and a system-level evaluation of how robots might selectively use different types of gestures to improve interaction outcomes, such as user task performance and perceptions of the robot, in a narrative performance scenario. The results show that robot deictic gestures consistently predict users' information recall, that all types of gestures affect user perceptions of the robot's performance as a narrator, and that males and females show significant differences in their responses to robot gestures. These results have strong implications for designing effective robot gestures that improve human-robot interaction.

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“…Sidnell (2006) uses this extract to illustrate his claim that 'gaze is a resource not only for performing the reenactment (along with gesture and talk) but also for parsing the larger telling into interactionally relevant units ' (p. 394). He argues that Michael is here following by guest on October 15, 2014 dis.sagepub.com Downloaded from a pattern whereby speakers remove their gaze from recipients during reenactments, but return their gaze to recipients for non-reenactment portion of their telling, arguing that speaker gaze plays a crucial role in delimiting the story into its 'narrative parts' and its 'reenacted parts ' (p. 392).…”

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Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency

Thompson

Suzuki

2014

Discourse Studies

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In a reenactment, a speaker re-presents or depicts a previously occurring event, often dramatically. In this article we examine the role of gaze in reenactments in conversations from Japanese and American English. Following Goodwin in viewing a reenacted story as 'a multi-modal, multi-party field of activity', we show how tellers' and recipients' gaze during reenactments is deployed to achieve specific interactional ends. We argue that there are two layers of activities involved in doing reenacting -a) the habitat of the original event; b) the habitat of the reenacting event, including the dynamics of gaining appreciative recipiency -and show how they are interwoven in the joint production of a reenactment.

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Coordinating Gesture, Talk, and Gaze in Reenactments

Cited by 256 publications

References 22 publications

Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour motivated use of space

Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour motivated use of space

Modeling and Evaluating Narrative Gestures for Humanlike Robots

Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency

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