Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Gestural Types: Forms and Functions
- Part II Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis
- 6 Contributions to the Study of Visible Action as Utterance: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
- 7 Systems of Gesture Coding and Annotation
- 8 A Toolbox of Methods for Gesture Analysis
- 9 The Gestural Sign: A Concrete and Reasoned Analysis of Co-Speech Gesture
- 10 Creation and Analysis of the Multimedia Russian Corpus for Gesture Research
- 11 A Kinesiological Approach to Gesture Analysis
- 12 Motion-Tracking Technology for the Study of Gesture
- Part III Gestures and Language
- Part IV Gestures in Relation to Cognition
- Part V Gestures in Relation to Interaction
- Index
- References
10 - Creation and Analysis of the Multimedia Russian Corpus for Gesture Research
from Part II - Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Gestural Types: Forms and Functions
- Part II Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis
- 6 Contributions to the Study of Visible Action as Utterance: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
- 7 Systems of Gesture Coding and Annotation
- 8 A Toolbox of Methods for Gesture Analysis
- 9 The Gestural Sign: A Concrete and Reasoned Analysis of Co-Speech Gesture
- 10 Creation and Analysis of the Multimedia Russian Corpus for Gesture Research
- 11 A Kinesiological Approach to Gesture Analysis
- 12 Motion-Tracking Technology for the Study of Gesture
- Part III Gestures and Language
- Part IV Gestures in Relation to Cognition
- Part V Gestures in Relation to Interaction
- Index
- References
Summary
The chapter considers gesture studies in relation to corpus linguistic work. The focus is on the Multimedia Russian Corpus (MURCO), part of the Russian National Corpus. The chapter includes a brief biography of the creator of this corpus, Elena Grishina. The compilation of the corpus out of a set of Russian classic feature films and recorded lectures is described as well as the methods of annotating it in detail. The gesture coding is not limited to manual/hand gestures, but also includes head gestures and use of eye gaze. The chapter considers the findings from the corpus, and reported in Grishina’s posthumously published volume on Russian gestures from a linguistic point of view. The categories include pointing gestures, representational gestures, auxiliary (discourse-structuring) gestures, and several cross-cutting categories, including gestures in relation to pragmatics and to grammatical categories, like verbal aspect. Additional consideration is given to other video corpora in English (and other languages) which are being used for gesture research, namely the UCLA NewsScape library being managed by the Red Hen Lab and the Television Archive.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies , pp. 249 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024