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  • 5 - From the Neck Up: Facial Gestures in Dialogue

  • from Part I - Gestural Types: Forms and Functions
  • Edited by Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
    Published online:
    01 May 2024
    Print publication:
    18 April 2024, pp 112-130

  • Summary

    Gestures of the face have a relatively limited presence in scholarly gesture discourses. The use of facial movements as intentional communication has been historically undermined in facial behavior research. The face has been primarily studied as expressions of emotion, traditionally theorized as involuntary signs of internal affective states. Emotion expressions are differentiated from facial movements that serve conversational functions in face-to-face dialogue. The facial gestures presented in this chapter illustrate the flexibility and diversity of meanings conveyed by facial communicative actions. Gestures can refer to affective events not present in the immediate here and now, communicate understanding of another individual’s affective experience, and convey information about a target referent. Other facial gestures have counterparts in hand gestures with similar pragmatic and semantic functions. The study of facial gestural components of linguistic communicative events is important to the construction of a comprehensive model of language.