Gestures Influence the Production of New Meanings in Gesture

Spacing variant 1 This gesture takes up the notion of size but pro-duces a mismatch in semantic content. 

In these two variants, we see how speaker and audience use their own gestural interpretations to reflect upon the patterns, discontinuities, and relationships in Libby s gestures. What is perhaps most interesting is the way that 

While it may seem artificial to ask miners to guess the meanings conveyed in gesture in videos without speech, rhetoricians have not previously found it artificial to rely on speech without gesture. Researchers rely upon written transcripts because they are stable and permanent records of rhetorical interaction and because they can be analyzed and re-analyzed as conditions warrant. But we may also rely on written transcripts because we have not had adequate technologies or methods of analysis to capture and interpret how speakers communicate meanings in gesture. 

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