Swahili gestures
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Title:
Swahili gestures comments ( vielezi) and exclamations ( viingizi)
Creator:
Omar, Yahya Ali ( Author, Primary )
Eastman, Carol M., 1941- ( contributor )
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, UK
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Language:
English

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Gesture ( LCSH )
Swahili language ( LCSH )
Kiswahili, lugha
Ishara
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Kenya
Coordinates:
1 x 38

Notes

Abstract:
In this paper a number of gestures used by Kenya coastal Swahili speakers is described. We describe gestures that are associated with speech in various ways ranging from some requiring speech as they are performed to others referred to via verbs or phrases which are performed non-verbally. We attempt to place the verbal-dependent gestures on a continuum of verbal—non-verbal communication. We also describe verbally-independent gestures and gesturally independent speech forms that function similarly in discourse. ( en )
General Note:
Published in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Volume 48, Issue 02 (June 1985), pp 321 - 332
General Note:
How to cite this article: Carol M. Eastman and Yahya Ali Omar (1985). Swahili gestures: comments (vielezi) and exclamations ( viingizi). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 48, pp 321-332 doi:10.1017/S0041977X00033383

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SOAS, University of London
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