Autori: Giorgi, Alessandra, Petrocchi, Erika
Titolo: On the syntactic representation of co-speech gestures in expressive language
Periodico: Lingue e linguaggio
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 47 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 21 - Pagina finale: 39

Language is assumed to be a multimodal system in which prosody, manual and non-manual gestures, and body positioning interact with syntactic structure in systematic ways. While gestures have often been analyzed from a semantic perspective, recent work has shown that they can be integrated into the syntactic architecture of the clause. We adopt this perspective and propose an analysis of co-speech gestures in expressive contexts, focusing on emotional meanings such as surprise and disapproval. Data from typologically diverse languages are considered. The discussion addresses three main questions: (I) What triggers the use of gesture in expressive utterances? (II) Are these gestures language-specific or universal? (III) What is their role within the grammar? We argue that a formal model integrating syntax, prosody, and gestures is required to account for the structural properties of expressive phenomena and to advance a theory of language as a fundamentally multimodal architecture.




SICI: 1720-9331(2025)47:1<21:OTSROC>2.0.ZU;2-O
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1418/117441
Testo completo alternativo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1418/117441

Esportazione dati in Refworks (solo per utenti abilitati)

Biblioteche ACNP che possiedono il periodico