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Self-referential gestures in conversation

University of California, Berkeley, monburden{at}gmail.com

One way speakers can refer to themselves in conversation is with a stressed first-person pronoun accompanied by a movement of the hand to or toward the chest. This can be produced alone or in tandem with a reference and gesture to another person. Close analysis of several instances of self-referential gesture demonstrates that this form of self-reference is designed to achieve interactional work beyond simple reference, specifically relational disaggregation and self-referential extraction.

Key Words: conversation • gesture • interaction • prosody • reference • self-reference

Discourse Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4, 558-566 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1461445607079166


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