Having a different pointing of view about the future: The effect of signs on co-speech gestures about time in Mandarin–CSL bimodal bilinguals
| Autor: | Yan Gu, Yeqiu Zheng, Marc Swerts |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Language, Communication and Cognition, Center Ph. D. Students, Research Group: Econometrics |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language JAPANESE Speech recognition space-time metaphor LANGUAGE EMBODIMENT Sign language Chinese Sign Language Mandarin Chinese 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Education CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE medicine SPACE 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Temporal orientation CONCEPTIONS CONSTRUALS ENGLISH bimodal bilingual sign on gesture 05 social sciences temporal gesture Sagittal plane language.human_language medicine.anatomical_structure METAPHORS language EXPERIENCE Psychology Gesture Sign (mathematics) |
| Zdroj: | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(4):1366728918000652, 836-847. CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS |
| ISSN: | 1366-7289 |
| Popis: | Mandarin speakers often use gestures to represent time laterally, vertically, and sagittally. Chinese Sign Language (CSL) users also exploit signs for that purpose, and can differ from the gestures of Mandarin speakers in their choices of axes and direction of sagittal movements. The effects of sign language on co-speech gestures about time were investigated by comparing spontaneous temporal gestures of late bimodal bilinguals (Mandarin learners of CSL) and non-signing Mandarin speakers. Spontaneous gestures were elicited via a wordlist definition task. In addition to effects of temporal words on temporal gestures, results showed significant effects of sign. Compared with non-signers, late bimodal bilinguals (1) produced more sagittal but fewer lateral temporal gestures; and (2) exhibited a different temporal orientation of sagittal gestures, as they were more likely to gesture past events to their back. In conclusion, bodily experience of sign language can not only impact the nature of co-speech gestures, but also spatio-motoric thinking and abstract space-time mappings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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