Hologestos: produções linguísticas numa perspectiva multimoda

Abstract

This paper aims to chart the emergence of gestures produced in mother-child interactive situations in the first eighteen months of baby’s life, what we call hologestos. Such gestures coordinated with speech production in interactive situations dyadic (holófrases), allow to understand the emergence of language acquisition from an envelope in which multimodal co-operate four plans: look, prosody, gesture, verbal output. For this, we work with videotaped data of two mother-infant dyads, covering the first eighteen months of a child’s life. Results indicate that combining the first uses gestures to childhood holophrases to observe the emergence of certain symbols such as gestures or mime. These gestures are coincident with the first verbal productions (holofrásticas), and a moment later, the emergence of gestures - which relate to the flow of speech - has come at about 15/18 months when the child already has a higher thread their verbal and speech production involves higher prosodic blocks. This allows us to move away from designing a sign of primitivism and pre-linguistic character. That is, we advocate the view that gestures do not hold the place of speech in language acquisition, their status would not be pre-linguistic. Instead, we consider the gesture as co-participate, since it constitutes the matrix of language.