Gesture and rhetorical delivery: The transmission of knowledge in complex situations
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-kent13101469792021-08-03T05:37:44Z Gesture and rhetorical delivery: The transmission of knowledge in complex situations Streit, Sigrid Rhetoric gesture knowledge embodied knowledge delivery rhetoric In early treatises on rhetoric, authors such as Aristotle and Quintilian identify delivery as one of the five canons of rhetoric, the one which involves bodily expressions, namely voice, gesture and the face. While current research in rhetoric has considered delivery in the abstract sense that helps communicate human thought, researchers outside the field are exploring the practical role gesture plays in human communication. Such research argues that gesture and speech are equally important elements of communication. But, this research has not yet identified how humans represent embodied knowledge, knowledge communicated through the body in complex multimodal environments. This gap is linked to a significant circumstance: Researchers generally agree that this type of knowledge is difficult to represent through language alone; because it is associated with bodily movement, it is difficult to evaluate how it facilitates communication. Accordingly, my dissertation (a) returns gesture to the rhetorical study of delivery, and (b) expands efforts to understand embodied human (inter)action in complex multimodal environments in terms of rhetorical delivery. To those ends, my dissertation reappropriates Halliday’s theory of systemic functional linguistics and its extensions into the realm of multimodality. Then, my study uses Mediated Discourse Analysis, as proposed by scholars such as Norris, Jones, Scollon and Scollon, as a heuristic tool to connect and extend discourse analysis and links it with taxonomies and methodologies employed in gesture study by authors such as Kendon, McNeill, and Goldin-Meadow. Then, the study analyzes the use and role of touch gestures, that is, gestures that include objects and human bodies. My work sheds light on the ways in which experts communicate knowledge to students in various stages of acquiring embodied practices. This effort identifies new types of gesture and argues for their inclusion in Kendon’s Continuum of gestures. My findings extend current gesture taxonomies and current understanding of the ways in which gesture appears in conjunction with speech. My study also connects rhetorical studies of delivery, gesture, and embodied knowledge. 2011-07-08 English text Kent State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1310146979 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1310146979 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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