A Cultural Study of Open-Palm Hand Gestures and their Prosodic Correlates

Autor: Ferré, Gaëlle, Mettouchi, Amina
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Nantes - UFR Lettres et Langages (UFRLL), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique (LLACAN), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Nantes - UFR Lettres et Langages (UFRLL), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2020-58⟩
Popis: International audience; This paper presents an exploratory study of open-palm gestures with five recurring hand orientations and their use by storytellers speaking different languages, within distinct cultures-Metropolitan French, American English (US), and Kabyle Berber (Algeria). With the help of single (CA) and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), we show that (a) storytellers of the three languages do not perform the same recurrent openpalm gesture orientations and (b) that they do not align their gestures with the same speech events: the speech prosody accompanying those gestures is different depending on the language of the storytellers. Overall, the study provides a preliminary picture of the various cultural stances adopted in the activity of storytelling.
Databáze: OpenAIRE