Covert negation in Israeli Hebrew: Evidence from co-speech gestures

Inbar, Anna; Shor, Leon

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.02.011

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“…Figure 2 shows examples of the five gestures. Gestures accompanying the wide semantic field of negation and negativity (Calbris 2003;Inbar & Shor, 2019;Kendon, 2004;Bressem & Mu ¨ller, 2014) have been observed to be often performed with the palm held downwards or towards the interlocutor, moving laterally. Such gestures show a common pattern of lateral movements and are believed to derive from actions like sweeping or knocking aside unwanted objects (Bressem & Mu ¨ller, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Semi-automation of gesture annotation by machine learning and human collaboration

Ienaga

Cravotta

Terayama

et al. 2022

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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Gesture and multimodal communication researchers typically annotate video data manually, even though this can be a very time-consuming task. In the present work, a method to detect gestures is proposed as a fundamental step towards a semi-automatic gesture annotation tool. The proposed method can be applied to RGB videos and requires annotations of part of a video as input. The technique deploys a pose estimation method and active learning. In the experiment, it is shown that if about 27% of the video is annotated, the remaining parts of the video can be annotated automatically with an F-score of at least 0.85. Users can run this tool with a small number of annotations first. If the predicted annotations for the remainder of the video are not satisfactory, users can add further annotations and run the tool again. The code has been released so that other researchers and practitioners can use the results of this research. This tool has been confirmed to work in conjunction with ELAN.

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Section: First Datasetmentioning

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Semi-automation of gesture annotation by machine learning and human collaboration

Ienaga

Cravotta

Terayama

et al. 2022

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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“…In addition to these verbal-prosodic elements that contribute to the construction of extreme case formulation, we also find two co-extensive gestural elements that can be linked to the expression of TOTALITY. The first is the Horizontal Palm gesture, a well-known manual marker of intensification, totality, and a lack of exception (Kendon 2004;Grishina 2015;Harrison 2018;Inbar and Shor 2019). 3 The second is the 0.8-second EC co-produced with the word eypa'am 'ever'.…”

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Eye closures in spoken Hebrew: Conversational functions and meaning semiosis

Shor

2024

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The present study focuses on eye closure (EC) as a communicative facial gesture in Israeli Hebrew media talk and pays particular attention to its coordination with coexpressive verbal, prosodic, and embodied resources. Drawing on the interactional approach to language and embodied action, the study demonstrates that EC can convey four contextual meanings – concentration, hedging, negation and totality – depending on the context in which it occurs and the verbal material with which it is coproduced. The paper proposes that these contextual meanings are derived from the more general meaning of disengagement conveyed by EC. Moreover, the present paper suggests several potential semiotic connections between the basic physiological use of EC as a reflex of self-protection and evasion and its observed contextual meanings. This provides evidence for the co-optation of the basic functions of facial gestures for communicative purposes via metaphorical-metonymical extensions.

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“…But as soon as we move up a notch in abstraction, to more broadly scoped gestures-gesture families, recurrent gestures, and gestural practices-we begin to see striking similarities across cultures. For example, several prominent recurrent gestures recur across groups (e.g., Bressem, Stein, & Wegener, 2017); the palmup epistemic gesture is a broadly shared pairing of form and meaning (Cooperrider, Abner, & Goldin-Meadow, 2018); and many conventional negation gestures are strikingly widespread (see, e.g., Inbar & Shor, 2019;Mesh & Hou, 2019). We might say, borrowing Darwin's words, that these gestures seem too widespread to be thought of as "altogether conventional or artificial" (Darwin, 1872, p. 274).…”

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“…That a gesture is sometimes used for negation does not imply that negation is the gesture's core meaning. The shrug, for instance, is described as part of the negation repertoire in some reports (e.g., Inbar & Shor, 2019), but in no communities does the shrug appear to have negation as its core meaning.…”

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Universals and diversity in gesture: Research past, present, and future

Cooperrider¹

2020

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At the dawn of anthropology, gesture was widely considered a “universal language.” In the 20th century, however, this framing fell out of favor as anthropologists rejected universalism in favor of relativism. These polemical positions were largely fueled by high-flying rhetoric and second-hand report; researchers had neither the data nor the conceptual frameworks to stake out substantive positions. Today we have much more data, but our frameworks remain underdeveloped and often implicit. Here, I outline several emerging conceptual tools that help us make sense of universals and diversity in gesture. I then sketch the state of our knowledge about a handful of gestural phenomena, further developing these conceptual tools on the way. This brief survey underscores a clear conclusion: gesture is unmistakably similar around the world while also being broadly diverse. Our task ahead is to put polemics aside and explore this duality systematically—and soon, before gestural diversity dwindles further.

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Covert negation in Israeli Hebrew: Evidence from co-speech gestures

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Semi-automation of gesture annotation by machine learning and human collaboration

Semi-automation of gesture annotation by machine learning and human collaboration

Eye closures in spoken Hebrew: Conversational functions and meaning semiosis

Universals and diversity in gesture: Research past, present, and future

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