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  • 17 - On Grammar–Gesture Relations: Gestures Associated with Negation

  • from Part III - Gestures and Language
  • Edited by Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
    Published online:
    01 May 2024
    Print publication:
    18 April 2024, pp 446-474

  • Summary

    Gestures associated with negation have become a well-defined area for gesture studies research. The chapter offers an overview of this area, identifies distinct empirical lines of enquiry, and highlights their contribution to aspects of linguistic and embodiment theory. After relating a surge of interest in this topic to the notion of recurrent gestures (but not restricted to it), the chapter offers a visualization of the widespread geographical coverage of studies of gestures associated with negation, then distils a set of common observations concerning the form, organizational properties, and functions of such gestures. This area of research is then further thematized by exploring distinct chains of studies that have adopted linguistic, cognitive-semantic, functional, psycholinguistic, comparative, and cultural perspectives to analyze the gestural expression of negation. Studies of gestures associated with negation are shown to have played a vital role in shaping understandings of the multimodality of grammar, the embodiment of cognition, and the relations between gestures and sign.