Prendre son cours à bras le corps

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze how the kinesthetic modalities (hand gestures, gaze, head movements, facial expressions) are articulated with teacher speech to build pedagogical discourse. We first use the three pedagogical functions defined by Dabène (1984) showing how they are realized through various modalities. In the second part, we consider the semantic links between gesture and speech and finally, we conduct a detailed analysis of synchrony between gesture and speech.

Keywords

• teaching gestures
• teaching action
• multimodality
• speech pauses