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10 - Creation and Analysis of the Multimedia Russian Corpus for Gesture Research

from Part II - Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2024

By
Ekaterina Rakhilina  and
Alan Cienki
Edited by
Alan Cienki
Alan Cienki
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Summary

The chapter considers gesture studies in relation to corpus linguistic work. The focus is on the Multimedia Russian Corpus (MURCO), part of the Russian National Corpus. The chapter includes a brief biography of the creator of this corpus, Elena Grishina. The compilation of the corpus out of a set of Russian classic feature films and recorded lectures is described as well as the methods of annotating it in detail. The gesture coding is not limited to manual/hand gestures, but also includes head gestures and use of eye gaze. The chapter considers the findings from the corpus, and reported in Grishina’s posthumously published volume on Russian gestures from a linguistic point of view. The categories include pointing gestures, representational gestures, auxiliary (discourse-structuring) gestures, and several cross-cutting categories, including gestures in relation to pragmatics and to grammatical categories, like verbal aspect. Additional consideration is given to other video corpora in English (and other languages) which are being used for gesture research, namely the UCLA NewsScape library being managed by the Red Hen Lab and the Television Archive.

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Grishinacorpus linguisticsRussiangrammarhead gesturespointingdeicticrepresentational gesturespragmaticsfilm
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The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies , pp. 249 - 272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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