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Sekine, Kazuki, Wood, Catherine and Kita, Sotaro (2018) Gestural depiction of motion events in narrative increases symbolic distance with age. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 9 (1). pp. 40-68. doi:10.1075/lia.15020.sek ISSN 1879-7873.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1075/lia.15020.sek
Abstract
We examined gesture representation of motion events in narratives produced by three- and nine-year-olds, and adults. Two aspects of gestural depiction were analysed: how protagonists were depicted, and how gesture space was used. We found that older age groups were more likely to express protagonists as an object that a gesturing hand held and manipulated, and less likely to express protagonists with whole-body enactment gestures. Furthermore, for older age groups, gesture space increasingly became less similar to narrated space. The older age groups were less likely to use large gestures or gestures in the periphery of the gesture space to represent movements that were large relative to a protagonist’s body or that took place next to a protagonist. They were also less likely to produce gestures on a physical surface (e.g., table) to represent movement on a surface in narrated events. The development of gestural depiction indicates that older speakers become less immersed in the story world and start to control and manipulate story representation from an outside perspective in a bounded and stage-like gesture space. We discussed this developmental shift in terms of increasing ‘symbolic distancing’ (Werner & Kaplan, 1963).
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Gesture, Speech and gesture, Gesture -- Psychological aspects, Communicative competence in children, Nonverbal communication in children | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Language, Interaction and Acquisition | |||||||||
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1879-7873 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 9 May 2018 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 9 | |||||||||
| Number: | 1 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 40-68 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1075/lia.15020.sek | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 January 2018 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 May 2018 | |||||||||
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