Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures : the case of hand fling
Abstract
The last decades have seen major advances in the study of gestures both in humans and non-human primates. In this paper, we seriously examine the idea that there may be gestural form types that are shared across great ape species, including humans, which may underlie gestural universals, both in form and meaning. We focus on one case study, the hand fling gesture common to chimpanzees and humans, and provide a semantic analysis of this gesture.
Citation
Patel-Grosz , P , Henderson , M , Grosz , P G , Graham , K & Hobaiter , C 2023 , ' Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures : the case of hand fling ' , Linguistics Vanguard , vol. 9 , no. 1 , pp. 63-72 . https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0004
Publication
Linguistics Vanguard
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2199-174XType
Journal article
Description
Funding: This research was partially supported by funding from the Faculty of Humanities career development grant at the University of Oslo [PI: Patel-Grosz]; Matthew Henderson, Kirsty Graham and Catherine Hobaiter received research funding from the European Union’s 8th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, under grant agreement no 802719 [PI: Hobaiter].Collections
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