Gestural Usage
Gestural Usage
Gestural usage is the use of a deictic expression in such a way that a physical monitoring of the speech situation is necessary for interpretation of the expression.
(English)
- In the following sequence, an accompanying gesture is necessary to interpret the expression:
- This one’s genuine, but this one is a fake.
Page/s: 65
Source: Levinson 1983
Levinson, Stephen C. 1983.Pragmatics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
Page/s: 40
Source: Fillmore 1975
Fillmore, Charles J. 1975.Santa Cruz lectures on deixis: 1971. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Related terms
- RT⇆ Deixis
- RT⇆ Symbolic Usage
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/gestural-usage
