Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction

Watson, JCE; Wilson, JJ

Abstract

Until fairly recently most linguistic fieldwork relied on written records of spoken data or audio-only recordings. The recent increase in research focusing on audio-visual data, with emphasis on the co-expressiveness of speech and gesture, has led to a greater understanding of the relationship between language, gesture and thought. In this paper, we discuss gesture and what it illuminates linguistically in two Modern South Arabian Languages: Mehri and Śḥerɛ̄t

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jun 23, 2017
• Deposit Date: Sep 6, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 4, 2019
• Journal: Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
• Print ISSN: 1876-6633
• Electronic ISSN: 1877-6930
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 49-72
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-00901006
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18776930-00901006
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