Why Do We Move Our Hands When We Talk? by Tom Scott - YouTube
- co-speech gestures (Kendon 2004)
- paralinguistic = accompany language
- types
- iconic = literal object
- metaphoric = symbolise abstract concept
- deictic = positional
- pragmatic = turn-taking, go-away
- (beat/baton = rhythmic gestures)
- emblems
- don’t have to occur outside of speech
- form tight to meaning → learned
- can change over time
- e.g. thumbs-up
- why?
- redundancy → agreement
- emphasis
- creating understanding
- expressing social norms
- distancing
- intrinsic to language, universal!