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Table of contents
1 Introduction
2 General characteristics of gestures
2.1 Gesture types
2.1.1 Iconics and metaphorics
2.1.2 Beats
2.1.3 Cohesives
2.1.4 Deictics
2.2 Gesture and speech as a single system
2.3 Attention to speech-accompanying gestures
3 Communicative functions of gestures
3.1 Structuring speech and helping interaction
3.2 Structuring discourse in narrative situations
3.3 Distinguishing layers of discourse
3.4 Voice
3.5 Emphasis
3.6 Completion
3.7 Commenting on an utterance
3.8 Adding “realness”
3.9 Information about the speaker
4 Gestures and the speech production process
4.1 Research concerned with gesture’s role in speech production
4.2 Models of speech production including gestures
4.2.1 Krauss&Hadar’s model
4.2.2 De Ruiter’s model
4.2.3 McNeill’s growth point theory
4.2.4 Competition hypotheses
5 Gestures and mental processing
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
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- Sonja Kaupp (Author), 2011, Speech-accompanying gestures and their impact on speech production and communication, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/180007
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