Do Speakers Design Their Cospeech Gestures for Their Addressees? The Effects of Addressee Location on Representational Gestures

摘要: Do speakers use spontaneous gestures accompanying their speech for themselves or to communicate message addressees? Two experiments show that change the orientation of depending on location shared space, is, intersection gesture spaces and addressees. Gesture orientations more frequently when they accompany spatial prepositions such as into out, which describe motion has a beginning end point, rather than across, depicts an unbounded path across space. Speakers so represent point INTO OUT by moving out Thus, design addressees therefore them communicate. This implications view are part language well role in production.