Information Status Predicts the Incidence of Gesture in Discourse: An Experimental Study

IF 2.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL

Discourse Processes Pub Date : 2022-07-04 DOI:10.1080/0163853X.2022.2085476

Sandra Debreslioska, M. Gullberg

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The study aimed to disentangle the influence of information status and referential form on the distribution of gestures in sustained discourse. Previous research shows that new and less accessible rather than old and more accessible information, expressed by rich rather than lean referential forms, is more likely to be accompanied by gestures. However, earlier studies have drawn on correlational results. This study probes the relationship between information status and gesture production experimentally. Participants retold stories referring to discourse entities as normal (Control), using only lexical noun phrases (NOUN condition), or only pronouns (PRONOUN condition). The results from the experimental conditions showed that speakers tend to produce gestures with reintroduced rather than maintained referents regardless of referential form. The findings suggest a strong and direct relationship between information status and gesture production when referential forms are controlled for, lending further support to a view of speech and gesture as an integrated system.

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信息状态预测语篇手势发生率的实验研究

摘要本研究旨在理清信息状态和指称形式对持续语篇中手势分布的影响。先前的研究表明，新的、不太容易获得的信息，而不是旧的、更容易获得的、通过丰富而非贫乏的指称形式表达的信息，更有可能伴随着手势。然而，早期的研究已经得出了相关的结果。本研究通过实验探讨了信息状态与手势产生之间的关系。参与者将提及话语实体的故事复述为正常（对照），只使用名词短语（noun条件），或只使用代词（PRONOUN条件）。实验结果表明，无论指称形式如何，说话人都倾向于用重新引入的指称而不是保持的指称来产生手势。研究结果表明，当指称形式受到控制时，信息状态与手势产生之间存在着强烈而直接的关系，进一步支持将语音和手势视为一个集成系统的观点。

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来源期刊

Discourse Processes Multiple-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal.