On the interaction of gestural and linguistic perspective taking
- 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.
Verfasserangaben: | Stefan HinterwimmerORCiDGND, Umesh PatilORCiD, Cornelia EbertORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-620416 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.625757 |
ISSN: | 2297-900X |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Frontiers in communication |
Verlag: | Frontiers Media |
Verlagsort: | Lausanne |
Dokumentart: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): | 15.06.2021 |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 15.06.2021 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 29.06.2022 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | anti-logophoricity; character viewpoint gestures; co-speech gestures; free indirect discourse; observer viewpoint gestures; perspective taking; viewpoint |
Jahrgang: | 6.2021 |
Ausgabe / Heft: | art. 625757 |
Aufsatznummer: | 625757 |
Seitenzahl: | 15 |
Erste Seite: | 1 |
Letzte Seite: | 15 |
Bemerkung: | 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). |
Bemerkung: | 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/ |
HeBIS-PPN: | 497506076 |
Institute: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |