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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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Published in:Gesture Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 396 - 416
Main Author: Heng Li
Format: Article
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 2017
Subjects:
Spacetime
Metaphor
Mandarin dialects
Hand signals
Speech & gesture
Time perception
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