AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

”I will give it my all!”:personal pronouns in the announcement speeches of the United States Presidential candidates in 2016

by H (Heidi) Spets




Institution: University of Oulu
Department:
Year: 2016
Keywords: English Philology
Posted: 02/05/2017
Record ID: 2064655
Full text PDF: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201602031106


Abstract

The aim of this study is to look at the connections between speech and gesture at the level of iconic gestures and their lexical affiliates. The primary interest is to see if the lexical affiliates of gestures representing the four aspects of iconicity belong to any specific word class or take a specific position within clause structure. David McNeill’s theories on gestures and the growth point as well as Nick Enfield’s idea of the composite utterance serve as the main theoretical background for this study. The findings suggest that iconic gestures connect to specific units of speech.