Vagueness and Gestures
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In communication, vagueness, unspecificity, approximation, uncertainty and hesitation (VUAUH) can all be expressed by words, prosody or gesture. This paper examines the relationship between the expression of VUAUH and gestures connected to them. A corpus consisting of political debates was used to select relevant data. The data enabled us to connect some of the VUAUH types, or combinations of types, to gestures. Findings indicated that, for example, approximation was expressed together with head waggle.
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