Italians really gesture more
Viadrina Center for Gesture and Multimodality Studies
As part of the International Lecture Series hosted by the Viadrina Center for Gesture and Multimodality Studies, Dr. Maria Graziano (University of Lund) gave an insightful talk on „Different rhetorical styles through different gesture production: evidence from Italian and Swedish narratives“.
During her talk, she presented results from her research which illustrated that Italians do not only gesture more but also that they use different types of gestures and have different rhetorical types while retelling a previosly watched cartoon, which is more visible in gesture than in speech. One take-home point of her talk: If we want to have an analysis of the rhetorical stylse of these narratives, we need to look at both speech and gesture. If not, she would not have found any of her these differences.
The team of the Chair of Language Use and Multimodal Communication enjoys the international exchange and the truly European research.
Impressions of the visit
Recently Maria Graziano published a paper together with her collegue Marianne Gullberg which can be accessed here.
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