French Face-to-Face Interaction: Repetition as a Multimodal Resource - Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction - page 161

4 A: puis à ce moment là les matinées où où elle est au au co- si
elle doit aller au collège (0.62) so then on the mornings when
when she is at at scho- if she must go to school
5 A: [bien moi moi je reste ici je prends euh enfin je m'en occupe]
so I I stay here, I take uh, well I look after it
{Gesture 1}{Gesture 2}{Gesture3}{Gesture 4 ————-———}
6 B: [ouais toi tu restes ouais ouais vous euh] yeah yeah you stay
yeah yeah you uh
{Gesture 5}
Example 3 is slightly different from what we have seen above. As
he utters so I , speaker A produces a metaphoric gesture (Gesture 1)
which is an asymmetrical double-handed gesture (the left hand moves
a bit more than the right one), and which consists of his hands being
oriented palm up at the beginning of the stroke. Then he rotates his
wrists, so his hands are on the side and opens them a little again.
Speaker B has a similar movement of his right hand only although
the configuration of his fingers is different (Gesture 5). The twisting
movement is actually what makes the gesture look as a repetition of
A's metaphoric. This is shown in Figures 6a and 6b.
Figure 6a. Two-hand metaphoric gesture produced by speaker A (Gesture 1) in example 3.
Figure 6b. Single-hand metaphoric gesture produced by speaker B (Gesture 5) in example 3.