Speakers Use Gesture as Queries to Invite Response

The notion of a query suggests that gestures can be used rhetorically to invite spoken or gestural responses in others—like an embodied question. When 

Libby s colleague (front, foreground) uses gesture as a query to invite response. 

When Libby s colleague (Fig. 8.9) shifted her hands from a wide strata gesture (hands parallel and horizontal) to a wide spacing gesture (hands parallel on the vertical), she looked to her colleague for confirmation or response. Her colleague copied this gesture before she responded in speech Probably the spacin of the bolts.  

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