Structural Congruity in Co-Speech Gesture
| dc.contributor.advisor | Geenen, J.G. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Peeters, D | |
| dc.contributor.author | Koops, A | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-07-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study aimed to investigate the differences in the production of gestures in spontaneous and planned speech. Given the cognitive link between speech and gesture (Kelly et al., 2010; Peeters et al., 2015; McNeill, 2005, 2007) and the differences in the process of spontaneous and planned speech production (Blaauw, 1995; Chawla & Krauss, 1994; Levelt, 1989), the question that was answered was: What are the differences between the gestures that are produced in spontaneous and planned speech? This research was conducted with the use of a semi-structured sociolinguistic interview and a presentation by the same participants, in which their co-speech gestures were analysed. The different types of gestures and the synchronous speech showed various extents of structural congruity; metaphoric gestures and speech were strongly congruent, beat gestures and speech did show some structural congruity but to a lesser extent, and iconic gestures did not show structural congruence. The structural congruity of metaphoric and beat gestures gives further evidence for the cognitive link between speech and gesture. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2426 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Letteren | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | English Language and Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Master Taalwetenschappen/Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Master | en_US |
| dc.title | Structural Congruity in Co-Speech Gesture | en_US |
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