補足手勢與訊息類型

Complementary Gestures and Information Types

在中文會話中所使用的「補足手勢」跟說話內容沒有直接的語法和語意關係，但這類手勢也傳達訊息。本研究主要探討補足手勢傳達什麼類型的訊息、補足手勢的語用功能，以及訊息結構。研究發現補足手勢可以傳達沒有說出的訊息包括：對談論事件的態度、談論事件所引發的相關訊息，和表達主題。根據參與者正在交談的內容，雖然這些訊息都不是當下的談話焦點，補足手勢卻能提供更多的意義，豐富事件談論的內容，也能維持主題的連續性。

This paper investigates what kinds of information can be conveyed by complementary gestures that do not have a direct syntactic and semantic relation with particular linguistic constituents, what discourse functions the gestures have in communication, and how the relationship between gesturing and speaking can help in understanding the organization of information in Chinese daily conversation. The findings show that complementary gestures can convey attitudinal, scriptevoked, and topical information. With regard to what all the participants are talking about, these various types of information are not the immediate concern of the participants at the moment of utterance; nonetheless, the complementary gestures provide additional meanings to enrich speech events or maintain the continuity of a topic under discussion.