Beeile dich!, Sei still! und Versprochen! Eine kontrastive Analyse von emblematischen Gesten deutscher und polnischer Jugendlicher
Hurry up!, Be quiet! and I promise! A contrastive analysis of emblematic gestures of German and Polish schoolchildren

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to present the formal repertoire of selected emblematic gestures. The study was conducted within “Borderlandˮ – a project related to intercultural communication in the borderland region of Frankfurt Oder (Germany) and Słubice (Poland). Some basic questions that are taken into consideration include whether similar or different gestures appear on the border of languages and cultures. The study focuses on gestures of 47 children between the ages 13 and 15 who were videotaped and subjected to a variety of tasks (including gestures related to three utterances Be quiet!, Hurry up! and I promise!). The findings of the corpus-based analysis demonstrate that the realisation of gestures used by Polish and German speakers are to some extent similar, how-ever, the repertoire of forms is also in some cases different.

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