Author(s):
Rodrigues, Isabel Maria Galhano 
Date: 2013
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/64817
Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
Subject(s): Deixis; Linguística portuguesa
Document details
"Vou buscar ali, ali acima!"
Description
Based on a case study, this article explores multimodal deixis - the ensemble gesture-speech deixis - in European Portuguese. Various forms of pointing gestures will be identified and correlated to simultaneous speech, giving account of the different types of deixis and of the kind of reference established by deictic elements. In the description of the modalities which assume the function of “pointing at”, the following co-textual and contextual aspects were considered: the relevance of indicating an object, a place, a space, a person or an abstract idea; the need for precision in pointing; speakers’ expectations regarding hearers’ knowledge about the referents.
Based on a case study, this article explores multimodal deixis - the ensemble gesture-speech deixis - in European Portuguese. Various forms of pointing gestures will be identified and correlated to simultaneous speech, giving account of the different types of deixis and of the kind of reference established by deictic elements. In the description of the modalities which assume the function of “pointing at”, the following co-textual and contextual aspects were considered: the relevance of indicating an object, a place, a space, a person or an abstract idea; the need for precision in pointing; speakers’ expectations regarding hearers’ knowledge about the referents.
Document Type
Article
Language Portuguese
Language Portuguese
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