Locally-anchored spatial gestures, version 2: Historical description of the 
local environment as a gesture elicitation task

Kita, Sotaro

doi:10.17617/2.874647

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Locally-anchored spatial gestures, version 2: Historical description of the local environment as a gesture elicitation task

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Kita, Sotaro
Language and Cognition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Kita, S. (2001). Locally-anchored spatial gestures, version 2: Historical description of the local environment as a gesture elicitation task. In S. C. Levinson, & N. J. Enfield (Eds.), Manual for the field season 2001 (pp. 132-135). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.874647.

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Gesture is an integral part of face-to-face communication, and provides a rich area for cross-cultural comparison. “Locally-anchored spatial gestures” are gestures that are roughly oriented to the actual geographical direction of referents. For example, such gestures may point to a location or a thing, trace the shape of a path, or indicate the direction of a particular area. The goal of this task is to elicit locally-anchored spatial gestures across different cultures. The task follows an interview format, where one participant prompts another to talk in detail about a specific area that the main speaker knows well. The data can be used for additional purposes such as the investigation of demonstratives.