КОНСТРУИРОВАНИЕ СОБЫТИЯ В ДИСКУРСЕ ТЕАТРАЛЬНОЙ ЧИТКИ: КОГНИТИВНО-КОММУНИКАТИВНЫЙ АСПЕКТ

Abstract

The paper presents a study of the interplay of speech and co-speech gestures which emerges during the public play-reading. The research issue is to identify the specific features and functions of gestures in co-occurring verbal and gestural conceptualizations exemplified by a public reading of D. Danilov’s “A Man from Podolsk”. We assume that gestural features and functions are related to the peculiarities of the public play-reading as a separate type of theatrical discourse. The data obtained were annotated in ELAN program followed by functional annotation with the help of functional annotation of the Russian Emotion Corpus (REC). The results of the quantitative and qualitative analyses prove the hypothesis stated and as such reveal the specificity of meaning construal process. It is demonstrated that the functions exhibit certain correlations between the types of gestures; the activity indicators are the highest for referent construal; then come state construal and salient effect. The most frequent are pragmatic gestures (56%) followed by representative and deictic gestures (18% and 12% respectively). Therefore, the data provide evidence to support the role of gestures accompanying speech under the guidance of a single communicative intention in the process of event construal.