Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought. David McNeill. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 416 pp.

Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

Abstract There is no punctuation in English endowed with attenuating qualities which could function as the contrary of “!”, and in a language with no speech levels, such paucity of expression can come at a cost, especially online. This paper on the non-standard 1sg in English — i — aims to demonstrate that the use of this novel form is both conscious and meaningful, indeed it is a variation carrying its own linguistic mechanisms. Using linguistics and statistics we will see: a) how the use of the lowercase variant, which in English is an aberration, can have prosodic effects on the utterance, and thus signify a feeling. And, b) how textometry allows us to reveal the use of this non-standard 1sg in a contrastive corpus of tweets addressed directly to (@) Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, over four days of the UK general elections, by testing its frequency with several collocations, among others: slurs and hate speech, hapax, and conjunctions. The results obtained tend towards the confirmation that the non-standard 1sg is used not only to signal youth, but also as a precautionary implement deployed when weighing in on divisive topics, amounting to publishing a statement with a caveat.

Offsetting love and hate: The prosodic effects of the non-standard 1sg in tweets to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn over four days of the UK general election

Time is one of the most precious resources in the audio-visual media. Journalists working in radio broadcasting are particularly subject to time constraints. Their message has to be passed on by the speech signal in a few minutes or seconds without visual support of written text or pictures. Therefore, the message has to be structured in a way that the most important aspects of the information are made prominent and interesting for the audience. On the other hand, journalists have to keep in time and need strategies to orient themselves in time in order to achieve exact timing of their spoken discourse. In this article, I lend support to the notion that the rhythmic structure of speech is one of the major tools for journalists to succeed in this endeavor. First, I review some of the literature on the nature of speech rhythm and its role for speech perception, language acquisition, processing and interaction. Second, the state of the art about what we know about rhythmic prominence in radio broadcasting is given. Finally, the idea will be advanced that speech rhythm, sometimes in conjunction with gesture, improves timing and time estimation in journalists speaking on air. A rich set of literature from different domains is presented in order to identify major questions and pathways for future research on speech rhythm in radio broadcasting.

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