Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings

dc.authoridGöksun, Tilbe/0000-0002-0190-7988
dc.authoridOzer, Demet/0000-0003-3230-2874
dc.authorwosidGöksun, Tilbe/ABI-5133-2020
dc.authorwosidÖzer, Demet/HHM-9595-2022
dc.contributor.authorÖzer, Demet
dc.contributor.authorOzer, Demet
dc.contributor.authorGoksun, Tilbe
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T15:12:31Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T15:12:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.department-temp[Ozder, Levent Emir; Ozer, Demet; Goksun, Tilbe] Koc Univ, Dept Psychol, TR-34450 Istanbul, Turkey; [Ozer, Demet] Kadir Has Univ, Dept Psychol, Istanbul, Turkeyen_US
dc.description.abstractBilinguals tend to produce more co-speech hand gestures to compensate for reduced communicative proficiency when speaking in their L2. We here investigated L1-Turkish and L2-English speakers' gesture use in an emotional context. We specifically asked whether and how (1) speakers gestured differently while retelling L1 versus L2 and positive versus negative narratives and (2) gesture production during retellings was associated with speakers' later subjective emotional intensity ratings of those narratives. We asked 22 participants to read and then retell eight emotion-laden narratives (half positive, half negative; half Turkish, half English). We analysed gesture frequency during the entire retelling and during emotional speech only (i.e., gestures that co-occur with emotional phrases such as happy). Our results showed that participants produced more representational gestures in L2 than in L1; however, they used more representational gestures during emotional content in L1 than in L2. Participants also produced more co-emotional speech gestures when retelling negative than positive narratives, regardless of language, and more beat gestures co-occurring with emotional speech in negative narratives in L1. Furthermore, using more gestures when retelling a narrative was associated with increased emotional intensity ratings for narratives. Overall, these findings suggest that (1) bilinguals might use representational gestures to compensate for reduced linguistic proficiency in their L2, (2) speakers use more gestures to express negative emotional information, particularly during emotional speech, and (3) gesture production may enhance the encoding of emotional information, which subsequently leads to the intensification of emotion perception.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJames S. McDonnell Foundationen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was funded by James S. McDonnell Foundation (https://doi.org/10.37717/220020510) given to Tilbe Goksun.en_US
dc.identifier.citation4
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/17470218221126685en_US
dc.identifier.endpage1816en_US
dc.identifier.issn1747-0218
dc.identifier.issn1747-0226
dc.identifier.issue8en_US
dc.identifier.pmid36073978en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85139617008en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage1797en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221126685
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5467
dc.identifier.volume76en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000865135100001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.khas20231019-WoSen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofQuarterly Journal of Experimental Psychologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectIconic GesturesEn_Us
dc.subjectNegative AffectEn_Us
dc.subjectHand GesturesEn_Us
dc.subjectFacial ExpressionEn_Us
dc.subjectRecipient DesignEn_Us
dc.subjectSpeechEn_Us
dc.subjectLanguageEn_Us
dc.subjectMemoryEn_Us
dc.subjectCommunicationEn_Us
dc.subjectSpeakingEn_Us
dc.subjectIconic Gestures
dc.subjectNegative Affect
dc.subjectHand Gestures
dc.subjectFacial Expression
dc.subjectRecipient Design
dc.subjectSpeech
dc.subjectGestureen_US
dc.subjectLanguage
dc.subjectbilingualismen_US
dc.subjectMemory
dc.subjectmultimodal communicationen_US
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectemotionen_US
dc.subjectSpeaking
dc.subjectnarrative productionen_US
dc.titleGesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellingsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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