List of figures

Figure 1 Overview of the Methods of Gesture Analysis 13 Figure 2 Extract from ELAN annotation file for the example 1 “weapons of mass destruction” 16 Figure 3 Conceptual structure of reduplication (adapted from Stolz et al., 2011, p. 186) 28 Figure 4 Fuzzy boundary between repetition and reduplication (adapted from Stolz et al., 2011, p. 147) 31 Figure 5 Sign SICK and eight aspectual modulations (taken from Klima & Belugi, 1979, p. 265) 33 Figure 6 Reciprocal form of HELFEN (‘help’) through backward reduplication (taken from Pfau & Steinbach, 2005, p. 573) 34 Figure 7 Ungrammatical reciprocal form of GEBEN (‘give’) through back ward reduplication (taken from Pfau & Steinbach, 2005, p. 573) 35 Figure 8 Plural marking in the sign KIND (‘child’) through sideward reduplication (taken from Pfau & Steinbach, 2005, Bressem & Ladewig, 2011, p. 580) 35 Figure 9 Noun-verb pair (taken from Supalla & Newport, 1978, p. 102) 36 Figure 10 Verb LOOK-AT (taken from Klima & Beluggi, 1979, p. 280) 37 Figure 11 Ideal succession of gesture phases (taken from Bressem & Ladewig, 2011, p. 54) 39 Figure 12 Constituent structure of gestural sequences with and without preparation phases (adapted from Fricke, 2012, p. 179) 40 Figure 13 Cognitive-semantic classification of gestural repetition 47 Figure 14 Example 1 iteration “weapons of mass destruction” 49 Figure 15 Example 2 iteration “Arko” 50 Figure 16 Example 3 iteration “metal thing” 52 Figure 17 Example 4 reduplication “send back and forth” 56 Figure 18 Example 5 reduplication “single steps” 57 Figure 19 Overview of most frequent types of iterations and their forms, meanings, and functions 61 Figure 20 Motivation of gestural forms 69 Figure 21 Diagrammatic iconic relation in gestural reduplication 82 Figure 22 Overview of iterations and reduplications and their form and meaning 87 Figure 23 Continuum of co-expressivity between gestural and verbal meaning (adapted from Gut, Looks, Thies, & Gibbon, 2002, p. 9) 90 Figure 24 Continuum of integrability of speech and gesture (adapted from Ladewig, 2012, p. 184) 119 Figure 25 Overview of iterations and reduplications and their temporal and syntactil relation with speech 126 Figure 26 Continuum of constructions in multimodal language use 142 Figure 27 Types of multimodal constructions 143 Figure 28 Types of verbo-kinesic constructions 144 Figure 29 Example 6 iteration “big rain drops” 160 Figure 30 Example 7 iteration “handles” 165