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dc.contributor.authorDevylder, Simon
dc.contributor.authorHinnel, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorvan de Weier, Joost
dc.contributor.authorBrink Andersen, Linea
dc.contributor.authorLaporte-Devylder, Lucie
dc.contributor.authorKulukul, Heron Ken Tomaki
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T10:39:58Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T10:39:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-04
dc.description.abstractWhen people talk about kinship systems, they often use co-speech gestures and other representations to elaborate. This paper investigates such polysemiotic (spoken, gestured, and drawn) descriptions of kinship relations, to see if they display recurring patterns of conventionalization that capture specific social structures. We present an exploratory hypothesis-generating study of descriptions produced by a lesser-known ethnolinguistic community to the cognitive sciences: the Paamese people of Vanuatu. Forty Paamese speakers were asked to talk about their family in semi-guided kinship interviews. Analyses of the speech, gesture, and drawings produced during these interviews revealed that lineality (i.e., mother's side vs. father's side) is lateralized in the speaker's gesture space. In other words, kinship members of the speaker's matriline are placed on the left side of the speaker's body and those of the patriline are placed on their right side, when they are mentioned in speech. Moreover, we find that the gesture produced by Paamese participants during verbal descriptions of marital relations are performed significantly more often on two diagonal directions of the sagittal axis. We show that these diagonals are also found in the few diagrams that participants drew on the ground to augment their verbo-gestural descriptions of marriage practices with drawing. We interpret this behavior as evidence of a spatial template, which Paamese speakers activate to think and communicate about family relations. We therefore argue that extending investigations of kinship structures beyond kinship terminologies alone can unveil additional key factors that shape kinship cognition and communication and hereby provide further insights into the diversity of social structures.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDevylder, Hinnel, van de Weier, Brink Andersen, Laporte-Devylder, Kulukul. Kin Cognition and Communication: What Talking, Gesturing, and Drawing About Family Can Tell us About the Way We Think About This Core Social Structure. Cognitive Science. 2024;48(9)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2299063
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cogs.13484
dc.identifier.issn0364-0213
dc.identifier.issn1551-6709
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/35521
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.journalCognitive Science
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)en_US
dc.titleKin Cognition and Communication: What Talking, Gesturing, and Drawing About Family Can Tell us About the Way We Think About This Core Social Structureen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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