Beeile dich!, Sei still! und Versprochen! Eine kontrastive Analyse von emblematischen Gesten deutscher und polnischer Jugendlicher

Violetta Frankowska

doi:10.18778/2196-8403.2024.10

Authors

Violetta Frankowska Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0726-6680

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2196-8403.2024.10

Keywords:

gestures, emblems, nonverbal communication, videos, schoolchildren

Abstract

The article aims to present the formal repertoire of selected emblematic gestures. The study was conducted within “Borderlandˮ – a project related to intercultural communication in the borderland region of Frankfurt Oder (Germany) and Słubice (Poland). Some basic questions that are taken into consideration include whether similar or different gestures appear on the border of languages and cultures. The study focuses on gestures of 47 children between the ages 13 and 15 who were videotaped and subjected to a variety of tasks (including gestures related to three utterances Be quiet!, Hurry up! and I promise!). The findings of the corpus-based analysis demonstrate that the realisation of gestures used by Polish and German speakers are to some extent similar, how-ever, the repertoire of forms is also in some cases different.

Author Biography

Violetta Frankowska, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Dr., arbeitet seit der Promotion 2013 als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für deutsche Sprache am Institut für Germanistik der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität in Poznań. Forschungs- und Interesseschwerpunkte: Pragmalinguistik (insbesondere Höflichkeit im deutsch-polnischen Vergleich), Gestenforschung, Übersetzung, Textlinguistik (Internet-Memes).

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