Space, hands and gaze: Pointing as a resource for narrative
| Publicatietype: | In proceedings |
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| Publication status: | Published |
| Boektitel: | Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2025 (PRAVIDCO 2025) |
| Jaar: | 2025 |
| Uitgever: | Matfyzpress |
| Locatie: | Prague |
| URL: | https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pravi... |
| Samenvatting: | The connection between space, language and memory has often been emphasized in studies of social and cultural memory. This paper aims to empirically respecify this relationship. I focus on pointing practices of oral history interview participants giving guided tours of locations that play a significant role in their life stories. I distinguish two forms of it – pointing with the gaze and pointing with a hand. The former refers to the “here” of the narrative, generally incorporating the current space, while the latter is used to delineate a narrative “there”, specifying more precisely a concrete element of the environment. I also suggest that the recording’s intelligibility depends on making clearly discernible the scenic features being talked about, which is the specific work of the camera operator. In addition to refocusing social memory studies, my contribution also enriches the understanding of pointing gestures and situates narrative practices firmly in their spatial settings. |
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