TY  - JOUR
AB  - Previous work has shown the positive effect of encouraging gestures in performing varioustasks; in these studies, the participants generally appeared to gesture more when explicitlyasked to do it. However, little attention has been paid to whether encouraging gestures alsoaffects other gesture features, i.e., gesture type and salience. In this paper we explore this issue.Twenty native Italian speakers described the content of short comic strips to a listener in 2conditions: Non-Encouraging gestures (N); Encouraging gestures (E). Co-speech gestures weremanually coded and classified according to gesture type (Representational vs. Non-Representational) and gesture salience (Salient vs Non-Salient). The results show thatinstructing speakers to gesture led to an increase in gesture rate, in gesture salience, and in thenumber of representational gestures. By contrast, in the non-encouraging condition the rate ofNon-Salient gestures was significantly higher, but no difference was found for Non-Representational gestures.
AU  - Cravotta, Alice
AU  - Prieto, Pilar
AU  - Busà, Maria Grazia
DA  - 2019
DO  - 10.17619/UNIPB/1-803
PB  - Universitätsbibliothek
DP  - Universität Paderborn
LA  - eng
M2  - 21
PY  - 2019
SP  - 21-26
T2  - Proceedings of the 6th Gesture and Speech in Interaction Conference
TI  - Encouraging gesture use in a narration task increases speakers gesture rate, gesture salience and the production of representational gestures
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:466:2-35614
Y2  - 2026-01-17T08:21:53
ER  -