" This area of rain will stick South in the far North " Pointing and Deixis in Weather Reports

Gaëlle Ferré (1) , Quentin Brisson (1)

1 LLING - Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes

Pointing in face-to-face interactions has been largely studied in the literature, as well as route and spatial descriptions in map task experiments. Weather reports share features with both when it comes to the expression of spatial information. Although monologic by nature, weather reports, as will be shown in this preliminary study, are highly complex descriptions with constant switches from one viewpoint to another as well as frequent shifts in deictic center. The changes in viewpoints and deictic center may be congruent in speech and gesture, but they may also occur in one modality at a time, thus creating mismatches between the gestural and verbal information. Pointing in weather reports is also conditioned by the type of medium used, and the mixed frames of reference involved by the activity itself.

Mots clés: pointing; weather reports; viewpoint; frames of reference; deictic shifts

Domaines: Linguistique

Gaëlle Ferré, Quentin Brisson. " This area of rain will stick South in the far North " Pointing and Deixis in Weather Reports. Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Gaëlle Ferré; Mark Tutton, Sep 2015, Nantes, France. pp.101-106. ⟨hal-01201912⟩