Sikveland2012a

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Sikveland2012a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sikveland2012a
Author(s) Rein Ove Sikveland, Richard Ogden
Title Holding gestures across turns: Moments to generate shared understanding
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Tag(s) EMCA, gesture, shared understanding, phonetics, intersubjectivity
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2012
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Journal Gesture
Volume 12
Number 2
Pages 166–199
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DOI 10.1075/gest.12.2.03sik
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Abstract

It is widely supposed that speakers only gesture while speaking. In this paper, we consider how participants in Norwegian conversation use gestures held beyond the end of a turn-at-talk as a way to handle issues of shared understanding. Analysis combining the techniques of conversation analysis, linguistic, phonetic and visual analysis, demonstrates how participants use and orient to such held gestures as displays of occasions where participants do not (yet) have a shared understanding. The paper discusses how understanding is explicitly brought forward in a sequence of turns, and how shared understandings are reached and marked through a combination of spoken and gestural elements. The paper emphasizes the temporal progressivity of talk, the delicate timing of speech and gesture relative to one another, and the participants’ collaboration in successfully achieving and maintaining intersubjectivity.

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