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In:Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating
Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
[Gesture Studies 7] 2017
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Chapter 10
Multi-modal communication of common ground

A review of social functions

Published online: 26 April 2017
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Abstract
Until recently, the literature on common ground depicted its influence as a purely verbal phenomenon. We review current research on how common ground influences gesture. With informative exceptions, most experiments found that speakers used fewer gestures as well as fewer words in common ground contexts; i.e., the gesture/word ratio did not change. Common ground often led to more poorly articulated gestures, which parallels its effect on words. These findings support the principle of recipient design as well as more specific social functions such as grounding, the given-new contract, and Grice’s maxims. However, conceptual pacts or linking old with new information may maintain the original form. All together, these findings implicate gesture-speech ensembles rather than isolated effects on gestures alone.
Article outline
  • Common ground and verbal utterance design
    • Personal common ground
    • Incremental common ground
  • Multi-modal investigations of common ground
    • Reduction of word frequency
    • Social effects on the frequency and form of gestures
      • Visibility
      • Addressee effects
      • Dialogue vs. monologue
    • Effects of personal (prior) common ground on gestures
      • Rate measures
      • Comparison of form
    • Effects of incremental common ground on gestures
      • Rate measures
      • Comparison of form
    • General conclusions
  • Social functions of gestures in common ground contexts
    • Functions of gestures in studies of personal common ground
      • Gestures can serve the maxim of quantity
      • Gestures may avoid prolixity
      • “Remember when …. ?”: Prominent gestures may link common ground with new information
    • Functions of gestures in studies of incremental common ground
      • Gestural form can mark information as given
      • Grounding
      • Conceptual pacts
  • The flexible interplay of speech and gesture in common ground contexts
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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