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Departing from an overview of research on gesture families and, in particular, on "gestures of negation" (Kendon 2004), the chapter describes "the family of Away gestures" along with their structural motivations: shared formational features, shared motivations, and shared semantic themes. Building upon Kendon's analysis of two gesture families, the Open Hand Supine (OHS) family and the Open Hand Prone (OHP) family, we present a systematized reconstruction of a structural island of interrelated gestures: the Away family. The family consists of four recurrent gestures (including Kendon's Open Hand Prone family), which share one formational or kinesic feature "a (mostly straight) movement away from the body" and a motivation: The family is semantically based on a similar effect of different kinds of manual actions, which serve to clear the body space from unwanted objects. The chapter presents an account of how an action scheme may selectively be used to motivate gestural meaning. It also shows how such an action scheme may provide a semantic motivation for a structural island within the gestural mode of expression that is visible in both forms and functions of the gestures. In doing

Author

Jana Bressem; Cornelia Müller

Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110209624

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Fiction, Humanities