Gestures are modulated by social context A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
Gestures are modulated by social context A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
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手势受到社会背景的调节跨两种文化的多模式礼貌研究
作者：
Brown L
本文探讨手势作为标记礼貌相关意义的资源。我们问了14个韩国人和14个加泰罗尼亚人 让学生复述一幅漫画，一次是对一位不知名的上级复述，一次是对一位亲密的朋友复述。两种语言的参与者都减少了手势 当与社交关系疏远的上级互动时。两种语言的使用者在称呼上级时都减少了手势，减少了手势空间，减少了对方式的编码，减少了对 角色视点手势。我们看到手势频率的减少和对习惯的编码频率的降低是 在与地位较高的人交谈时，缩短手势标志着一个不那么好玩的交流环境， 严肃而恭敬的角色。总之，我们的研究说明了礼貌在手势产生中的重要性，以及社交礼貌的重要性。 人类交流中手势的本质。
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their gesture space, decreased the encoding ofmanner, and reduced the use of character-viewpoint gestures. We see the decrease in gesture frequency and the less frequent encoding ofmanneras indicators of lower levels of iconicity when talking with status superiors. Curtailing gesture marks a less playful communicative context, and a more serious and deferential persona. Altogether, our research speaks to the importance of politeness in gesture production, and the social nature of gestures in human communication.