2025/03/13 by Bauman, Richard
#gesture #iconicity #multimodality #ostension
paper · doi:10.71743/ksfnpb69
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.