Embodied Argumentation in Public Debates: the Role of Gestures in the Segmentation of Argumentative Moves

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Title
Embodied Argumentation in Public Debates: the Role of Gestures in the Segmentation of Argumentative Moves
Title of the book
Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres
Author(s)
Jacquin Jérôme
Publisher
John Benjamins
ISBN
9789027211316 ((imprimé)
9789027264695 ((e-book)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2017
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Editor
Tseronis Assimakis, Forceville Charles
Volume
14
Series
Argumentation in Context
Chapter
9
Pages
239-262
Language
english
Abstract
This chapter examines argumentative talk-in-interaction in video-recorded public debates held in Switzerland, during which all the participants were temporally and spatially co-present. It focuses on the issue of segmenting talk into argumentative moves, by looking at the way gestures combine with the verbal mode to enhance and display the different steps of the ongoing argumentation (e.g. when the speaker moves from one argument to another, or from an argument to the conclusion). In other words, while the embodied dimension of argumentation in talk-in-interaction remains largely unexplored, the chapter provides empirical evidence for the way argumentation is multimodally produced and processed in context. Three specific gestures are considered: gestures claiming the floor, gestures pointing to a participant, and metaphoric grasping gestures. The chapter concludes with suggestions for further lines of research.
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