Exploring bilingual children’s integration of gestures into talk-in-interaction

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Dialogue Pub Date : 2019-10-29 DOI:10.1075/ld.00047.wan

Phalangchok Wanphet, J. Sfaxi

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This paper explores how gestures, or the movements of hands, arms, and fingers, are employed by young bilinguals, or those who possess a good command of two languages. Moreover, it uncovers the sequential environment in which those gestures are found. The data come from twelve hours of recorded, naturally-occurring interaction between six bilingual girls in English. The findings reveal that their gestures have cognitive, communicative, interpersonal, and interactional functions. The gestures help solve speech problems, such as disambiguating speech, compensating for speech, and searching for words or what to say next. They also help allocate turns-at-talk, draw addressees’ attention, and maintain social relations. At a discourse level, the study reveals how bilinguals display similar gestures within the same discourse domain.

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探索双语儿童手势与互动对话的融合

这篇论文探讨了年轻的双语者或精通两种语言的人是如何使用手势或手、手臂和手指的运动的。此外，它还揭示了发现这些手势的顺序环境。这些数据来自六个会说英语的女孩之间12个小时的自然互动记录。研究结果表明，他们的手势具有认知、沟通、人际关系和互动功能。手势有助于解决语言问题，如消除语音歧义、补偿语音、搜索单词或下一步要说什么。它们还有助于分配谈话的顺序，吸引对方的注意力，并维持社会关系。在语篇层面，该研究揭示了双语者如何在相同的语篇领域中表现出相似的手势。

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期刊介绍： In our post-Cartesian times human abilities are regarded as integrated and interacting abilities. Speaking, thinking, perceiving, having emotions need to be studied in interaction. Integration and interaction take place in dialogue. Scholars are called upon to go beyond reductive methods of abstraction and division and to take up the challenge of coming to terms with the complex whole. The conclusions drawn from reasoning about human behaviour in the humanities and social sciences have finally been proven by experiments in the natural sciences, especially neurology and sociobiology. What happens in the black box, can now, at least in part, be made visible. The journal intends to be an explicitly interdisciplinary journal reaching out to any discipline dealing with human abilities on the basis of consilience or the unity of knowledge. It is the challenge of post-Cartesian science to tackle the issue of how body, mind and language are interconnected and dialogically put to action. The journal invites papers which deal with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, in theory and in practice, in business, in court, in the media, in politics and academia. In particular the humanities and social sciences are addressed: linguistics, literary studies, pragmatics, dialogue analysis, communication and cultural studies, applied linguistics, business studies, media studies, studies of language and the law, philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, sociology, anthropology and others. The journal Language and Dialogue is a peer reviewed journal and associated with the book series Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand.