Carla Cristilli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carla Cristilli plays a role.
Articles
2014 How gestures help children to track reference in narrative From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), pp. 331–350 | Article
This chapter analyzes the ways in which gestures compensate for children’s difficulties to track reference by linguistic anaphors. The research, carried out on the narratives produced by two groups of Italian children (6 and 10 years old), analyzed both the incidence of representational vs. deictic… read more
2011 Chapter 14. Learning to use gesture in narratives: Developmental trends in formal and semantic gesture competence Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 187–200 | Chapter
This study analyses the way in which children develop their competence in the formal and semantic aspects of gesture. The analysis is focused upon the use of representational gestures in a narrative context. A group of 30 Italian children from 4 to 10 years was videotaped while telling a video… read more
2011 Chapter 7. ‘Parallel gesturing’ in adult-child conversations Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 89–102 | Chapter
Sometimes a speaker repeats an interlocutor’s gesture, at least partially. Such ‘parallel gesturing’ illustrates how gestures can enter into the conversational exchange along with speech. Here we describe examples observed in adult-child conversations (children between 3 and 9 years). Four contexts… read more