THROW
Naomi Francis, Patrick Georg Grosz, Pritty Patel-Grosz
April 2023 

This paper provides a detailed description of the distribution of an utterance-accompanying or utterance-replacing throwing away gesture (see Bressem & Müller 2014, 2017), THROW, and proposes a formal analysis of its contribution. We argue that this gesture conveys dismissal, which we model as the marking of the question addressed by a preceding discourse move as unimportant. This work extends the growing body of linguistic work on formal gesture semantics to discourse-management gestures; moreover, we find that the dismissal meaning encoded by THROW is unlike other discourse-management operators in being unable to operate on propositional content that it accompanies.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/007043 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8455
keywords:	formal semantics, gesture semantics, dismissal, discourse management, super linguistics
previous versions:	v2 [February 2023] v1 [January 2023]
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