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“I Showed Him an Open Hand, He Showed me a Fist”

2025/03/13 by Bauman, Richard
#gesture #iconicity #multimodality #ostension

paper · doi:10.71743/ksfnpb69

Abstract

This essay offers a multimodal performance analysis of a widely documented international folktale. The emergent unfolding of the tale plot, which turns on constrasting interpretations of a series of thematized gestures, illuminates the dynamic tension between iconicity and ostension in performance.

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