Uttering Sentences Made Up of Words and Gestures
Year: 2010
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In several places, Robyn Carston warns the student of utterance interpretation against neglect of the ‘fact that most verbal utterances are a complex of linguistic, paralinguistic, facial and vocal gestures, which appear to function as a signal receiving a unified interpretation’, a fact which, she writes, remains ‘rather under-explored’ (2000: 824). Such neglect is unjustified because, she writes: the domain of pragmatics is a natural class of environmental phenomena, that of ostensive (=communicative) stimuli; verbal utterances are the central case, but not the only one, and they themselves are frequently accompanied by other ostensive gestures of the face, hands, voice, etc, all of which have to be interpreted together if one is to correctly infer what is being communicated. (2002: 129) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Author: Philippe De Brabanter
Institution: Institut Jean Nicod
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1515582155