Kashmiri Stec
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kashmiri Stec is involved.
2018 Seeing first person changes gesture but saying first person does not Gesture 17:1, pp. 158–175 | Article
Events with a motor action component (e.g., handling an object) tend to evoke gestures from the point of view of a character (character viewpoint, or CVPT) while events with a path component (moving through space) tend to evoke gestures from the point of view of an observer (observer viewpoint,… read more
2017 Gestures of the abstract: Do speakers use space consistently and contrastively when gesturing about abstract concepts? Pragmatics & Cognition 24:1, pp. 33–61 | Article
Speakers perform manual gestures in the physical space nearest them, called gesture space. We used a controlled elicitation task to explore whether speakers use gesture space in a consistent way (assign spaces to ideas and use those spaces for those ideas) and whether they use space in a… read more
2014 Reporting practices in multimodal viewpoint research: A methodological meta-analysis Gesture 14:2, pp. 225–253 | Article
This study assesses methodological reporting practices in multimodal viewpoint research using the 51 primary studies previously synthesized by Stec (2012). These studies were coded for the designs and reporting practices associated with the collection and analysis of multimodal data in order to… read more
2012 Meaningful shifts: A review of viewpoint markers in co-speech gesture and sign language Gesture 12:3, pp. 327–360 | Article
This review describes the primary strategies used to express changes in conceptual viewpoint (Parrill, 2012) in co-speech gesture and sign language. We describe the use of the face, eye gaze, body orientation and hands to represent these differences in viewpoint, focusing particularly on McNeill’s… read more