"Locally-Anchored Spatial Gestures": Historical Description of the Local Environment As a Gesture Elicitation Task

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  • Name : "Locally-Anchored Spatial Gestures": Historical Description of the Local Environment As a Gesture Elicitation Task
  • Title : "Locally-Anchored Spatial Gestures": Historical Description of the Local Environment As a Gesture Elicitation Task
  • Date : 1999
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    • Description : This entry has been superceded by the 2001 version! Gesture is an integral part of face-to-face communication, and provides a rich area for cross-cultural comparison. “Locally-anchored spatial gestures” are gestures that are roughly oriented to the actual geographical direction of referents. For example, such gestures may point to a location or a thing, trace the shape of a path, or indicate the direction of a particular area. The goal of this task is to elicit locally-anchored spatial gestures across different cultures. The task follows an interview format, where one participant prompts another to talk in detail about a specific area that the main speaker knows well. The data can be used for additional purposes such as the investigation of demonstratives.
    • Description : Additional info: Volume 1999, filed under Gesture, Space project. Tags: gesture
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    • Continent : Europe
    • Country : Netherlands
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    • Name : Language and Cognition Field Manuals
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      • Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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      • Role : Researcher
      • Name : Sotaro Kita
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