Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue

Autor/inn/en	Holler, Judith; Bavelas, Janet; Woods, Jonathan; Geiger, Mareike; Simons, Lauren
Titel	Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 59 (2022) 8, S.619-645 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
DOI	10.1080/0163853X.2022.2107859
Schlagwörter	Synchronous Communication; Dialogs (Language); Nonverbal Communication; Speech Communication; Foreign Countries; College Students; School Personnel; Time; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Canada; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dialog; Dialogs; Dialogue; Dialogues; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Ausland; Collegestudent; Schulpersonal; Zeit; Kanada; Großbritannien
Abstract	The "given-new contract" entails that speakers must distinguish for their addressee whether references are new or already part of their dialogue. Past research had found that, in a monologue to a listener, speakers shortened repeated words. However, the notion of the given-new contract is inherently dialogic, with an addressee and the availability of co-speech gestures. Here, two face-to-face dialogue experiments tested whether gesture duration also follows the given-new contract. In Experiment 1, four experimental sequences confirmed that when speakers repeated their gestures, they shortened the duration significantly. Experiment 2 replicated the effect with spontaneous gestures in a different task. This experiment also extended earlier results with words, confirming that speakers shortened their repeated words significantly in a multimodal dialogue setting, the basic form of language use. Because words and gestures were not necessarily redundant, these results offer another instance in which gestures and words independently serve pragmatic requirements of dialogue. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01