Holding gestures across turns: Moments to generate shared understanding.

TY - JOUR

T1 - Holding gestures across turns

T2 - Laboratory Phonology 10

AU - Sikveland, Rein Ove

AU - Ogden, Richard Albert

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - A norm in co-speech gesture is that a speaker only gestures 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 emphasises 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.

AB - A norm in co-speech gesture is that a speaker only gestures 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 emphasises 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.

KW - intersubjectivity

KW - turn construction

KW - social action

KW - gesture hold

KW - interactional gesture

KW - turn-taking

KW - understanding

KW - enchrony

U2 - 10.1075/gest.12.2.03sik

DO - 10.1075/gest.12.2.03sik

M3 - Article

SN - 1568-1475

VL - 12

SP - 166

EP - 199

JO - Gesture

JF - Gesture

IS - 2

Y2 - 8 July 2010 through 10 July 2010

ER -