Cognitive pragmatics as multimodal pragmatics: an analysis of intersubjective positioning in spoken dialogue
... perspective, certain features of embodied cognition in dialogic communication have been identified. The findings confirm the significance of the bodily orientation of the speakersas related to the viewpoints they express. This is achieved through several mimetic schemas the gestures are based upon: demonstration of an object, establishing physical contact with the interlocutor, and localization or placement of objects in space.
intersubjective positioning, gesture, recurrent gesture, mimetic schema, embodied ...
