Covert negation in Israeli Hebrew: Evidence from co-speech gestures

摘要: Abstract The present study examines various uses of the gestures that are usually associated with explicitly expressed negation (overt negation) in spoken Israeli Hebrew. analysis such uncovers hidden negative structures (covert at different levels, as lexical, propositional, or discursive. For example, reveals gestural patterns coordinated grammatical markers may co-occur lexemes have a component part their meaning (such absence, bad, and like), discourse imply restriction procedural meaning. fact same used all these contexts suggests indicate higher abstract notion — namely, ‘negativity’ rather than negation. Grammatical negation, therefore, should be considered one expressions negativity. Moreover, findings contribute to claim there is conceptual affiliation between speech gesture goes beyond individual linguistic segments.