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

Watson, JCE and Wilson, JJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2504-2525 2017, 'Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction' , Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 9 (1-2) , pp. 49-72.

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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

Item Type:	Article
Schools:	Schools > School of Arts & Media
Journal or Publication Title:	Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
Publisher:	BRILL
ISSN:	1876-6633
Related URLs:	Publication
Depositing User:	JJ Wilson
Date Deposited:	06 Sep 2017 10:01
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2022 22:24
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/43687

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