Interactional gestures as soccer celebrations
Published online: 22 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.19023.hel
https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.19023.hel
Abstract
The article presents a variety of gesture types used as celebrations during or after soccer matches and explains
the forms, meaning, reference and functions of the gestures as a semiotic phenomenon. The qualitative analysis of media images and
comments on celebratory performances shows that pre-planned, creative celebrations, including trademarks or signatures, which have
recently overshadowed spontaneous, conventionalized displays of affect, take the form of interactional gestures of different
types: performatives, regulators, pointing, icons, metaphors, pantomime, emblems or signs, as well as the form of compositions of
gestures, such as icons and pointing. During the match, gestures of all the above types serve to display affects and take on other
new functions. Also, even gestures like regulators, identified in literature as conversational ones, are used without the
accompanying speech. A disintegrated speech context for the interpretation of the meaning and reference of celebratory gestures is
provided in after-match media discourse.
Keywords: non-verbal communication, gestures, celebrations, sport
Article outline
- 1.Sports celebrations
- 2.Gestures as celebrations in sport
- 2.1Celebratory displays in recent research
- 2.1.1Celebration influence on success in sport competition
- The impact of initial nonverbal behavior
- The impact of post-goal nonverbal behavior
- The impact of non-verbal behavior outside and inside the team
- Emotional contagion and psychological momentum as a response to nonverbal triggers
- 2.1.2The spontaneous and conventionalized expression of emotions
- 2.1.3The nonverbal celebratory behaviors
- 2.1.1Celebration influence on success in sport competition
- 2.2Research questions
- 2.1Celebratory displays in recent research
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1Soccer celebrations in the media
- 3.2Soccer celebrations in a photocorpus-based research
- 3.3Definition of ‘gestures’
- 3.4Types of gestures and methods of their identification
- Affect displays or markers of emotions
- Performative gestures
- Regulators
- Pointing or deictic gestures
- Placing
- Emblems
- Iconic gestures
- Metaphoric gestures
- Pantomime
- Signs
- Signature or trademark gestures
- 3.5The meaning and reference of celebratory gestures
- 4.Interactional gestures as soccer celebrations
- 4.1Performative gestures
- 4.2Pointing
- 4.2.1Single pointing
- Pointing at himself or a teammate
- Pointing to the sky or at the supportive person
- Dedicative pointing
- 4.2.2Pointing in compositions of gestures
- 4.2.1Single pointing
- 4.3Iconic gestures
- Numerical displays
- Alphabetical displays
- Shapes displays
- Logotypes displays
- 4.4Pantomime
- 4.4.1Metaphors
- Driving or flying
- Shooting
- Playing ball
- Fighting
- Playing music or artistic performances
- 4.4.2Popular culture motifs
- 4.4.3Humoristic pantomimes
- 4.4.4Role-playing of the team’s events
- 4.4.1Metaphors
- 4.5Emblematic gestures
- Dedicative gestures
- Offensive gestures
- 4.6Signature or trademark gestures
- 5.Conclusion
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