RESEARCHER AND INTERLOCUTOR IN THE SAME FRAME. TACTILE GESTURES AND THEIR FUNCTION IN FIELD ANTHROPOLOGICAL-LINGUISTIC INTERVIEW Cover Image

ИСТРАЖИВАЧ И САГОВОРНИК У КАДРУ. ТАКТИЛНИ ГЕСТОВИ И ЊИХОВА ФУНКЦИЈА У ТЕРЕНСКОМ АНТРОПОЛОШКО-ЛИНГВИСТИЧКОМ ИНТЕРВЈУУ
RESEARCHER AND INTERLOCUTOR IN THE SAME FRAME. TACTILE GESTURES AND THEIR FUNCTION IN FIELD ANTHROPOLOGICAL-LINGUISTIC INTERVIEW

Author(s): Svetlana Ćirković
Subject(s): Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: Diniaş; Serbs in Romania; anthropological-linguistic interview; nonverbal communication; tactile gestures; haptics; pragmatics;

Summary/Abstract: This study is based on field anthropological and linguistic research carried out in May 2018 in the Serbian communities of Diniaş, Cenei, Rudna and Stanciova in Romania as part of the project Research on the History and Culture of Serbs in Romania. The study is a result of the author’s follow-up research in the field of non-verbal communication and the methodology of visual field research. One of the uncommon situations in field anthropological-linguistic research is considered, a situation in which the interlocutor and the researcher are in the same frame during video recording of field interview. It has been observed that the spatial position of researcher and interlocutor provides tactile contact between them, i.e. the interlocutor uses a tactile gesture in communication with the researcher. The focus of this contribution is on the analysis of the use and function of tactile gestures in the anthropological-linguistic interview and the verbal part of the narrative with which this type of gesture is linked.

  • Issue Year: 5/2019
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 475-492
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian