Narrative development and gestures in different genres
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0038/000400Keywords:
narrative development, gestures, children, spoken language, multimodalityAbstract
This paper explores genre-specific diversities of verbal narratives in different situational contexts. The main purpose is to analyse the narrative development and the usage of manual gestures of German speaking children in the age of 6-10. Data analysis revealed that the quantity of co-speech gestures differs not only with the age of the speaker and the situational contexts but also with narrative genres.
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