Jennifer Gerwing
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jennifer Gerwing is involved.
2023 Chapter 2. Microanalysis of Clinical Interaction (MCI) A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah and Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.), pp. 43–74 | Chapter
A pragmatic agenda for clinical communication must derive sound practice recommendations based on investigations of actual clinical practice rather than idealized practice. While it is reasonable to recommend that clinicians foster the inclusion and active participation of their patients, if… read more
2014 Including facial gestures in gesture-speech ensembles From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), pp. 15–34 | Article
Conversational facial gestures fit Kendon’s (2004) specifications of the functions of hand gestures. We illustrate how facial gestures in dialogue, like hand gestures, convey referential content as well as serving pragmatic, interpersonal and interactive functions. Hand and facial gestures often… read more
2011 Chapter 4. Dyadic evidence for grounding with abstract deictic gestures Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 49–60 | Chapter
Speakers use gestures to communicate within a dialogue, not as isolated individuals. We therefore analyzed gestural communication within dyadic dialogues. Specifically, we microanalyzed grounding (the sequence of steps by which speaker and addressee ensure their mutual understanding) in a task that… read more
2011 The flexible semantic integration of gestures and words: Comparing face-to-face and telephone dialogues Gesture 11:3, pp. 308–329 | Article
One measure of the communicative function of gestures is to test how speakers’ gestures are influenced by whether an addressee can see them or not, that is, by manipulating visibility between participants. We question traditional dependent variables (i.e., rate measures), suggesting that they may… read more
2009 The relationship between verbal and gestural contributions in conversation: A comparison of three methods Gesture 9:3, pp. 312–336 | Article
Gestures and their concurrent words are often said to be meaningfully related and co-expressive. Research has shown that gestures and words are each particularly suited to conveying different kinds of information. In this paper, we describe and compare three methods for investigating the… read more
2005 Linguistic influences on gesture’s form Gesture 4:2, pp. 157–195 | Article
Hand gestures in face-to-face dialogue are symbolic acts, integrated with speech. Little is known about the factors that determine the physical form of these gestures. When the gesture depicts a previous nonsymbolic action, it obviously resembles this action; however, such gestures are not only… read more