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8 - A Toolbox of Methods for Gesture Analysis

from Part II - Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2024

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Cornelia Müller
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Alan Cienki
Alan Cienki
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Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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This chapter offers a toolbox of Methods for Gesture Analysis (MGA). Developed in the context of research on emerging protolinguistic structures in cospeech gestures, the present version of MGA differs from earlier publications (Bressem, Ladewig, Müller 2013; Bressem 2013) in offering sets of tools for gesture analysis that adapt flexibly to different research questions. Essential starting points for MGA are an understanding of hand gestures as temporal forms embedded in a dynamically unfolding context and an understanding of context that itself varies with the adopted framework. The baseline for any chosen tool is a microanalysis that entails some account of the form of the gesture (as temporal form), i.e. ‘form analysis’,and some analysis of how a gesture, a sequence of gestures, a multimodal sequence is placed in a given temporally unfolding context-of-use, i.e. context-analysis. Macroanalyses of gesture dynamics are briefly introduced. MGA offers a toolbox with a flexible set of tools that encourages critical reflection on the insight that can be gained from analyzing gestures in multimodal communication and interaction.

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cognitive linguisticsconversation analysiscross-cultural comparisonempirical methods in multimodality researchgesture and signmultimodal interactionnonhuman primatespragmaticssemioticsvisual language
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The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies , pp. 182 - 216
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Print publication year: 2024

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