All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse

Language Related Episodes occur when speakers explicitly question lexical and grammatical aspects of the language they are using, resulting in collaborative discourse and assisted performance from peers. This paper demonstrates how such negotiation and repair may occur in relation to the gestural co...

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Main Authors: Harrison, Simon, Adolphs, Svenja, Gillon Dowens, Margaret, Du, Ping, Littlemore, Jeannette
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Published: Elsevier 2018
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author Harrison, Simon
Adolphs, Svenja
Gillon Dowens, Margaret
Du, Ping
Littlemore, Jeannette
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description Language Related Episodes occur when speakers explicitly question lexical and grammatical aspects of the language they are using, resulting in collaborative discourse and assisted performance from peers. This paper demonstrates how such negotiation and repair may occur in relation to the gestural component of a speaker's expression, leading us to introduce the parallel term ‘Gesture Related Episodes’. Our single case analysis reveals a range of issues that have received little attention, including the problems that people experience with gestures, what constitutes struggling in the gestural modality, and how people help each other to gesture more effectively in collaborative discourse. Our discussion links these issues to the L2 concerns and knowledge asymmetries in our data, as well as to conceptual and conventional features of gestures more generally.
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spelling nottingham-514502020-05-04T19:38:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51450/ All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse Harrison, Simon Adolphs, Svenja Gillon Dowens, Margaret Du, Ping Littlemore, Jeannette Language Related Episodes occur when speakers explicitly question lexical and grammatical aspects of the language they are using, resulting in collaborative discourse and assisted performance from peers. This paper demonstrates how such negotiation and repair may occur in relation to the gestural component of a speaker's expression, leading us to introduce the parallel term ‘Gesture Related Episodes’. Our single case analysis reveals a range of issues that have received little attention, including the problems that people experience with gestures, what constitutes struggling in the gestural modality, and how people help each other to gesture more effectively in collaborative discourse. Our discussion links these issues to the L2 concerns and knowledge asymmetries in our data, as well as to conceptual and conventional features of gestures more generally. Elsevier 2018-05-30 Article PeerReviewed Harrison, Simon, Adolphs, Svenja, Gillon Dowens, Margaret, Du, Ping and Littlemore, Jeannette (2018) All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse. Lingua, 207 . pp. 1-22. ISSN 0024-3841 Language Related Episodes ; Gestures ; Collaborative discourse ; L1–L2 interaction ; Assisted performance ; Peer dialogue https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384117304795?via%3Dihub doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2018.02.002 doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2018.02.002
spellingShingle Language Related Episodes ; Gestures ; Collaborative discourse ; L1–L2 interaction ; Assisted performance ; Peer dialogue
Harrison, Simon
Adolphs, Svenja
Gillon Dowens, Margaret
Du, Ping
Littlemore, Jeannette
All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse
title All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse
title_full All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse
title_fullStr All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse
title_full_unstemmed All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse
title_short All hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse
title_sort all hands on deck: negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse
topic Language Related Episodes ; Gestures ; Collaborative discourse ; L1–L2 interaction ; Assisted performance ; Peer dialogue
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