TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
A1  - Patil, Umesh
A1  - Ebert, Cornelia
T1  - On the interaction of gestural and linguistic perspective taking
T2  - Frontiers in communication
N2  - In this paper, we investigate the question of whether and how perspective taking at the linguistic level interacts with perspective taking at the level of co-speech gestures. In an experimental rating study, we compared test items clearly expressing the perspective of an individual participating in the event described by the sentence with test items which clearly express the speaker’s or narrator’s perspective. Each test item was videotaped in two different versions: In one version, the speaker performed a co-speech gesture in which she enacted the event described by the sentence from a participant’s point of view (i.e. with a character viewpoint gesture). In the other version, she performed a co-speech gesture depicting the event described by the sentence as if it was observed from a distance (i.e. with an observer viewpoint gesture). Both versions of each test item were shown to participants who then had to decide which of the two versions they find more natural. Based on the experimental results we argue that there is no general need for perspective taking on the linguistic level to be aligned with perspective taking on the gestural level. Rather, there is clear preference for the more informative gesture.
KW  - perspective taking
KW  - free indirect discourse
KW  - viewpoint
KW  - co-speech gestures
KW  - observer viewpoint gestures
KW  - character viewpoint gestures
KW  - anti-logophoricity
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62041
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-620416
SN  - 2297-900X
N1  - The research reported in this paper was funded by the DFG 1459 within the SFB 1252 Prominence in Language (Project-ID 281511265) (SH) and as part of the project PSIMS of the Priority Program 1727 XPRAG. de (EB 523/1-1) (CE).
N1  - The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found below: https://osf.io/4bqpx/
VL  - 6.2021
IS  - art. 625757
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - Frontiers Media
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -