Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture
(2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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, Melbou
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.