Speech and gesture regulations in expressing vague reference in expository dialogue
This study explores the organization of multimodal systems, mediated by two types of hierarchical regulations: systemic regulations governing each mode (speech and gesture) and multimodal regulations operationalizing mode alignment. To identify these regulations, we examine the variability of the multimodal speech-gesture system, modulated by the cognitive factor of vague reference in expository dialogue. The data ...
Simultaneous interpreter in multimodal dimension: the role of gestures in moments of non-interpretation
... interruptions in the flow of speech due to difficulties. Video recordings of a TEDtalk on biology interpreted from English into Russian by 24 simultaneous interpreters are analyzed with the help of quantitative and qualitative methods. The distribution of gestures with the moments of ‘non-interpretation’ indicates that referential (representational and deictic) gestures serve the compensatory function of strengthening the mappings between three frames of reference in which a simultaneous interpreter ...
Cognitive pragmatics as multimodal pragmatics: an analysis of intersubjective positioning in spoken dialogue
The study follows the tenets of cognitive multimodal pragmatics, focusing on some specific features of intersubjective positioning with gestures in Russian dialogic speech. It is hypothesized that gestures with recurring formal features (type and direction of movement, palm configuration, etc.) exhibit certain regularities when used with pragmatic markers of intersubjective positioning,...
Rock poetry between music and words: the drive and poetics of lyrics
... сообщество поклонников Земфиры : [сайт]. URL: http:// fanzemfira.ru/load/ (дата обращения: 03.09.2017).
Sviridov S. V.
rock lyrics, drive, aesthetics, poetics, hyperbole, grotesque, antiaestheticism, linguistic gesture
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Expressiveness in the theatre as a meaning-making technology and the role of gestures in its realization
... author turns to theatrical interpretations of the plays by Alexander Vampilov, Alexander Kazantsev, Natalya Sadur, and to two public readings of the play “A man from Podolsk” by Dmitry Danilov, with the total duration of 740 minutes. The focus is on gesture as a pivotal semiotic resource of the theatre. The results of the comparative quantitative analysis show the difference (i) in the gesture patterns and (ii) the frequency of their usage in the two kinds of theatrical discourse. The qualitative ...
