Handling pain: The semantic interplay of speech and co-speech hand gestures in the description of pain sensations

Speech Communication

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 244-256

  Rowbotham, Samantha ^a   Holler, Judith ^a,b   Lloyd, Donna ^a,c   Wearden, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co speech gesture; Gesture speech redundancy; Pain communication; Pain sensation; Semantic interplay of gesture and speech

Indexed keywords

CO-SPEECH GESTURE; CONSECUTIVE ANALYSIS; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; GESTURE-SPEECH; PAIN SENSATION; SPECIFICITY ANALYSIS; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES;

HEALTH; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84888289566     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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