Focal Gestures in Spoken Descriptive and Narrative Discourse
The article is devoted to the studying of focal gestures functioning in the oral narrative and descriptive types of discourse and to the comparative analysis of two video corpora established in the course of experiments. The results of the analysis showed that the shift of focus in representative gestures, which is sensitive to discourse types, allows us to consider this type of gestures as a non-verbal discursive marker. Therefore it is possible to consider gestures as an important nonverbal indicator of a discursive type.