国际伴语手势研究:回望与展望

An International Research on Co-speech Gesture:Retrospect and Prospect

伴语手势是伴随言语产生的符号性动作,与言语模态一起组成言语交际的多模态资源,是非言语模态中重要的模态,对言语交际和外语教学起着积极的作用。本文首先从研究主题和研究方法等方面回顾和梳理了国际伴语手势研究几十年的成果,其次讨论了研究过程中形成的各种理论、模型和假设等,论述了所产生的争议,最后从消除争议、厘清关系、验证功能和挖掘认知等层面探讨了伴语手势研究的未来发展趋势。

Co-speech gesture is the semiotic hand movement of the speaker accompanying the speech production and forms the multimodal semiotic resources for the human communication together with verbal modalities.It is an important component of nonverbal modalities and plays a crucial role both in human communication and in foreign language teaching and learning.The present paper first reviews decades of research by foreign researchers on co-speech gesture in the light of research themes and research methodology,then discusses the theoretical underpinnings that include models and hypotheses,and recounts the disputes arising from the research before finally coming to the prospects for future research in terms of solving disputes,clarifying interrelations,verifying functions and delving into cognitive features,etc.