Time on hands: Deliberate and spontaneous temporal gestures by speakers of Mandarin.

The present study investigates deliberate and spontaneous temporal gestures in Mandarin speakers. The results of our analysis show that when asked to gesture about past and future events deliberately (Study 1), Mandarin speakers tend to mimic space-time mappings in their spoken metaphors or graphic...

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Publicado en:Gesture Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 396 - 416
Autor principal: Heng Li
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 2017
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