Jens Allwood
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Evelyn Vilkman
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Published in: NEALT Proceedings. Northern European Association for Language and Technology; 4th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication; November 15-16; Gothenburg; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 93:11, p. 79-83
NEALT Proceedings Series 21:11, p. 79-83
Published: 2013-10-29
ISBN: 978-91-7519-461-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
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.
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