{"id":13887,"date":"2020-11-16T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13887"},"modified":"2020-11-15T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:03:26","slug":"linglunch-11-19-naomi-francis-university-of-oslo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/11\/16\/linglunch-11-19-naomi-francis-university-of-oslo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 11\/19 - Naomi Francis (University of Oslo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Naomi Francis (University of Oslo)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Marking objections with gestures<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, November 19th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This talk explores the role of a gesture, which I call <em>WAYTA<\/em> (for <em>What Are You Talking About?!<\/em>), in marking particularly strong objections. I argue that the distribution of this gesture is sensitive to properties of discourse that are also relevant for the distribution of elements of spoken language (e.g., <em>actually<\/em>, <em>doch<\/em>), and that this gesture can replace otherwise obligatory linguistic material. I also discuss crosslinguistic variation and the division of labour between gesture, prosody, and the material that they overlay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Naomi Francis (University of Oslo) Title: Marking objections with gestures Time: Thursday, November 19th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm Abstract: This talk explores the role of a gesture, which I call WAYTA (for What Are You Talking About?!), in marking particularly strong objections. I argue that the distribution of this gesture is sensitive to properties of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13889,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions\/13889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}