A general process corresponding to the development of systematic communicative codes, or linguistic development interms of lexicalisation (and possibly also grammaticalisation) can be detected in the continuum for gesture types. The gradual replacement of speech with gesture influences both the form and communicative functions of gestures. In the absence of speech, gestures tend to develop standardised forms and more abstract meanings. Just as speech is seen as a physiological event based on articulatory gestures, so the performance of gestures depends on articulators and a place of articulation, the articulators being the hand(s) and arm(s), and the place of articulation
being gesture space.

Keywords:

gesture, function, code, lexicalisaton, type, form, meaning

Pages:

59-66

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Type:

Research Paper

Fields:

Linguistics, Semiotics

Topic:

Types of Speech and Interactional
Mechanisms in Communication

UDC:

81`221.2

DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.495152

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