Markers of uncertainty in speech and gesture: some cognitive implications for Grice’s maximsстатья
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Аннотация:This article presents an empirical study of verbal and gestural markers of uncertainty in de-scriptive discourse.The participants of the experiment were asked to sequentially describe paintings of four differ-ent genres (romantic realism, neo-expressionism, abstractionism, and surrealism), so that the listenerscould recognize them from a list of various paintings. All the participants were amateurs in arts.The authors argue that the interlocutors who find themselves in a situation of uncertainty, whichmight interfere with the process of joint problem solving, highlight their cognitive state for the listener by using recurrent hand movements, mainly, swaying, cyclic and palm-up-open-hand gestures. More specifically, the authors show that the use of verbal and / or gestural markers of uncertainty is related to two factors – conceptual transparency of the stimulus that triggers the discourse, and the intentionsof the speaker either to describe a painting, or to reflect on its message and the feelings caused by it.The authors have come to believe that maximizing the relevance of uncertainty with the help ofverbal and non-verbal means, the speaker complies with Grice’s Maxims of Quality and Manner bysignaling to the listener that he has to solve a problem in a situation of vagueness or ambiguity.