Gesturing the discourse marker entonces in native speakers and learners of Spanish

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Abstract

This chapter presents the results of a study of gestures co-occurring with the Spanish discursive marker entonces (‘then’/‘so’) in the Spanish narrations of 15 native speakers and 15 learners of Spanish as a foreign language from Hong Kong with a proficiency level close to A2. Entonces is a multi- and polyfunctional discourse marker, with interactive, discursive, and logico-argumentative functions as well as being a temporal adverb (functions also found in its English translations ‘then’ and ‘so’). In general, novice speakers resort to this marker often, even from the initial levels, particularly with an interactive function but their gestures indicate other functions too.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultimodality Across Epistemologies in Second Language Research
PublisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.
Pages283-297
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781040015575
ISBN (Print)9781032409818
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2024

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences

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