Linguistic adaptation
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0002/000364Keywords:
Gestures, interactions, adaptation, non-verbal communicationAbstract
Conversations are characterised by the fact that dialogue partners adapt their language to specific communicative contexts, where they have been shown to be especially sensitive to characteristics of the addressee. Prior work revealed that this holds for various kinds of linguistic structure, as it affects speakers’ pronunciations, lexical choices, and syntactic structures. The current paper presents an overview of related research into gestures, i.e., movements of fingers, hands and arms that speakers produce with speech. We show how such gestures are affected by (1) the type of addressee, (2) the perspective of the addressee and (3) whether a gesture is meaningful for the addressee. We discuss the relevance of these findings for a more general model of spoken interaction.
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