Affiliation:
1. Federal University of Minas Gerais , Minas Gerais , Brazil
2. The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , TX , USA
Abstract
Abstract
Starting from a non-dualistic view on embodiment this paper approaches the relationship between cognition, gesture, language, and cultural practice by analyzing the gestural construction of the cultural concept jeitinho in talk-in-interaction. After introducing our phenomenological view on embodiment and gesture in interaction, we give a short overview of some main studies broaching the issue of cultural matters before presenting the concept jeitinho as delineated in historical, sociological, and anthropological approaches. In the empirical section, we offer a fine-grained analysis of four videosequences taken from a conversation about jeitinho between two Brazilian and two German professors who have lived in Brazil for more than 20 years. We show that the gestural style of both Brazilian professors differs significantly from the gestural engagement of the German professors since they schematically embody a sinuous gesture style and construe the cultural concept jeitinho as a qualium by adopting a character viewpoint while the German participants remain observers regarding their gestural performance.
Funder
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
University of Texas at Austin
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Communication,Language and Linguistics
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