Verbal or visual? : How information is distributed across speech and gesture in spatial dialog
- In spatial dialog like in direction giving humans make frequent use of speechaccompanying gestures. Some gestures convey largely the same information as speech while others complement speech. This paper reports a study on how speakers distribute meaning across speech and gesture, and depending on what factors. Utterance meaning and the wider dialog context were tested by statistically analyzing a corpus of direction-giving dialogs. Problems of speech production (as indicated by discourse markers and disfluencies), the communicative goals, and the information status were found to be influential, while feedback signals by the addressee do not have any influence.
| Author details: | Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10375 |
| Publication type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2006 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2006/11/10 |
| Source: | brandial´06 : Proceedings of the 10th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (SemDial-10) / ed. By David Schlangen ; Raquel Fernández. - Univ.-Verl. : Potsdam, 2006. - vii, 201 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. |
| RVK - Regensburg classification: | ER 300 |
| Organizational units: | Extern / Extern |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Tagungsbände/Proceedings (nicht fortlaufend) / brandial’06 : Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (SemDial-10) |
| External remark: | Der Aufsatz ist erschienen in: brandial´06 : Proceedings of the 10th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (SemDial-10) / ed. By David Schlangen ; Raquel Fernández. - Univ.-Verl. : Potsdam, 2006. - vii, 201 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. ISBN 978-3-939469-29-2 
URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10484 Die Printausgabe kann beim Universitätsverlag Potsdam bestellt werden. |
