Hinterwimmer, Stefan, Patil, Umesh and Ebert, Cornelia
(2021).
On the Interaction of Gestural and Linguistic Perspective Taking.
Frontiers in Communication, 6.
pp. 1-15.
Frontiers Media.
ISSN 2297-900X
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-532149 | ||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3389/fcomm.2021.625757 | ||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Frontiers in Communication | ||||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-15 | ||||||||||||||||
| Date: | 15 June 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Frontiers Media | ||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2297-900X | ||||||||||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | ||||||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 3: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur > Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I | ||||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Psychology Language, Linguistics Germanic |
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| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/53214 |
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