In:Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova
[Human Cognitive Processing 62] 2018
► pp. 107–142
Chapter 4Speakers’ gestural expression of event construal
Quantitative and qualitative analyses
Published online: 25 October 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.62.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.62.c4
Article outline
- 1.Introduction (Boutet, Morgenstern, Cienki)
- 1.1Choice of the coding protocol for gesture analysis
- 1.2Inter-coder reliability
- 1.3Category-specific particularities
- 1.4Summing up
- 2.The French speakers’ gestural expression of event construal (Boutet, Morgenstern)
- 2.1Introduction: Hypothesis for French
- 2.2Boundary schemas in French gestures
- 2.2.1Quantitative results
- 2.2.2Qualitative analyses
- 2.2.3Counterexamples: The role of lexical aspect and the multi-functionality of gestures
- 2.3Conclusion
- 3.German (Müller)
- 3.1Introduction: Hypothesis for German
- 3.2Results of boundary schema analysis for German
- 3.2.1Quantitative results
- 3.2.2Qualitative analyses
- 3.2.2.1Use of bounded gestures with Perfekt and unbounded gestures with Präteritum
- 3.2.2.2Some reasons for the distribution of bounded and unbounded gestures with the Präteritum
- 3.3Discussion: German as a complex case
- 4.Russian (Denisova, Iriskhanova, Cienki)
- 4.1Introduction: Hypothesis for Russian
- 4.2Results of boundary schema analysis for Russian
- 4.2.1Quantitative results
- 4.2.2Additional factors analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively
- 4.2.2.1Preliminary analysis
- 4.2.2.2In-depth analysis
- 4.2.2.3Results and discussion
- 4.3Conclusion
- 5.Summary (Cienki, Müller)
