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Language and Gesture in Chinese Conversation: Bishou-shuohuà

By Kawai Chui
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By Kawai Chui
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Language and Gesture in Chinese Conversation is a study of the semantic and temporal relationships between the speech and the gesture in the context of discourse interaction in Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. The cross-modal representation of ideas in natural discourse reveals the nature of BĬSHŎU-SHUŌHUÀ in the communication of meaning.

The study addresses two central issues:

• How do language and gesture represent the semantic information of various types of ideas?

• How do the linguistic...

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