Primary and secondary pragmatic functions of pointing gestures

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1722-1741

  Enfield, N J ^a   Kita, Sotaro ^b   de Ruiter, J P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Composite utterances; Gesture; Information structure; Interaction; Pointing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548427770     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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