Kasper Kok
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kasper Kok is involved.
Articles
2017 Functional and temporal relations between spoken and gestured components of language: A corpus-based inquiry International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
Based on the Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus (Lücking et al. 2013), this paper presents a systematic comparison of the linguistic characteristics of unimodal (speech only) and multimodal (gesture-accompanied) forms of language use. The results suggest that each of these two modes… read more
2016 The grammatical potential of co-speech gesture: A Functional Discourse Grammar perspective Functions of Language 23:2, pp. 149–178 | Article
In recent years, consensus has been growing that certain co-speech gestures must be incorporated in grammatical theory. Contrary to traditional beliefs, gestural expression has been found to be systematic in various ways, to exhibit some degree of compositional structure and to be to a certain… read more
2016 Mapping out the multifunctionality of speakers’ gestures Gesture 15:1, pp. 37–59 | Article
Although it is widely acknowledged that gestures are complex functional elements of human communication, many current functional classification systems are rather rigid, implicitly assuming gestures to perform only one function at any given time. In this paper, we present a theoretical view on… read more