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Focusing Attention with Deictic Gestures and Linguistic Expressions

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: Comprehension and production of text and discourse do not solely depend on linguistic expressions, but also on the physical context.The questions addressed in this study are 1) whether deictic gestures are substitutable for deictic expressions, and 2) whether deictic gestures establish joint attention.An eye tracking experiment investigated the effect of referring expressions and gestures on various aspects of attention.Results indicated that deictic gestures substitute for location descriptions.Furthermore, the manipulation of the synchrony between gesture and speech showed that hearers benefit from focusing of visual attention.

Source: eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Authors: Adrian Bangerter, Max M. Louwerse

Institutions: University of Neuchâtel, University of Memphis

Language: English

Topic: Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, University of Memphis, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Award: Tracking Multimodal Communication in Humans and Agents

OpenAlex ID: W76567536

FWCI: 20.82

Cites: 23

Cited by: 50

Related to: 10