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Swahili gestures: comments (vielezi) and exclamations (viingizi)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Carol M. Eastman  and
Yahya Ali Omar
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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.

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , June 1985 , pp. 321 - 332
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1985

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