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Examining Gesture Production in the Presence of Communication Challenges
Published on: January 26, 2024
Communicative intentions can modulate the linguistic perception-action link
Yoshihisa Kashima1, Harold Bekkering, Emiko S Kashima
1Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia. ykashima@unimelb.edu.au
Abstract:
Although applauding Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) attempt to ground language use in the ideomotor perception-action link, which provides an "infrastructure" of embodied social interaction, we suggest that it needs to be complemented by an additional control mechanism that modulates its operation in the service of the language users' communicative intentions. Implications for intergroup relationships and intercultural communication are discussed.
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