Vagueness and Gesture

Jens Allwood; Evelyn Vilkman

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Jens Allwood: University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Evelyn Vilkman: University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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2013

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NEALT Proceedings. Northern European Association for Language and Technology; 4th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication; November 15-16; Gothenburg; Sweden

Issue:

093

Article no.:

011

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79-83

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Abstract and Fulltext

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2013-10-29

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978-91-7519-461-5

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Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

ISSN (print):

1650-3686

ISSN (online):

1650-3740

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NEALT Proceedings Series

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Linköping University Electronic Press; Linköpings universitet

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In communication; vagueness; unspecificity; approximation; uncertainty and hesitation (VUAUH) can all be expressed by words; prosody or gesture. This paper examines the relationship between the expression of VUAUH and gestures connected to them. A corpus consisting of political debates was used to select relevant data. The data enabled us to connect some of the VUAUH types; or combinations of types; to gestures. Findings indicated that; for example; approximation was expressed together with head waggle.

Keywords: vagueness; gesture

NEALT Proceedings. Northern European Association for Language and Technology; 4th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication; November 15-16; Gothenburg; Sweden

Author:

Jens Allwood, Evelyn Vilkman

Title:

Vagueness and Gesture

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NEALT Proceedings. Northern European Association for Language and Technology; 4th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication; November 15-16; Gothenburg; Sweden

Author:

Jens Allwood, Evelyn Vilkman

Title:

Vagueness and Gesture

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