Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture

Kruk, Jessica; Gawne, Lauren; Freestone, Pete

Abstract

This paper draws attention to the important effect that gesture in science fiction can have on real-world communicative contexts, as well as the benefits and challenges of using corpus approaches in gesture study.

Citation

Kruk, J., Gawne, L., & Freestone, P. (2022, November). Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society 2022, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: Australian Linguistic Society 2022
• Conference Location: University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
• Start Date: Nov 29, 2022
• End Date: Dec 2, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jan 2, 2023
• Keywords: science fiction, linguistics, gesture, Star Trek, The Hunger Games
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2997038
• Publisher URL: https://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference2022/Program