May the Force Be with You... Gesturality of the Barcelonians Associated with Mockery, Insult and Protection

[eng] The aim of the article is to inventory gestures related to mockery, insult, attracting good luck, or warding off bad luck that a group of informants from Barcelona have performed. The data come from the application of the survey from the Atlas de Gestos, whose task is to collect gestures from...

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Autores: Forment, Mar, Illamola i Gómez, Cristina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Gesture
Nonverbal communication
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spelling May the Force Be with You... Gesturality of the Barcelonians Associated with Mockery, Insult and ProtectionForment, MarIllamola i Gómez, CristinaGestComunicació no verbalGestureNonverbal communication[eng] The aim of the article is to inventory gestures related to mockery, insult, attracting good luck, or warding off bad luck that a group of informants from Barcelona have performed. The data come from the application of the survey from the Atlas de Gestos, whose task is to collect gestures from the Pan-Hispanic context to describe the gestural repertoire of each territory and conduct comparative studies. The results, interpreted based on social factors (gender, age, and level of instruction), confirm the wide range of gestures for different functions (10 for mockery, 11 for insult and attracting good luck, and 9 for warding off bad luck). Regarding differences based on social variables, the results allow for indicating trends, namely, while the most used gesture to express mockery is sticking out the tongue, young people prefer the gesture of pointing and laughing, and informants over 55 years old only prefer laughing. Concerning insults, the use of peineta is widespread, although differences in behavior between men and women are observed. As for attracting good luck, Barcelona informants opt for crossing fingers, although older generations use gestures with more religious connotations, such as clasping hands. Finally, to ward off bad luck, Barcelona locals mention the gesture of crossing made with the index fingers of each hand.MDPI2024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/216487Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Hispànica, Teoria de la Literatura i Comunicació)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060191Languages, 2024, vol. 9, num.191, p. 1-37https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060191cc-by (c) Forment, Mar et al., 2024http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/2164872026-05-27T06:46:51Z
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title May the Force Be with You... Gesturality of the Barcelonians Associated with Mockery, Insult and Protection
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Forment, Mar
Gest
Comunicació no verbal
Gesture
Nonverbal communication
title_short May the Force Be with You... Gesturality of the Barcelonians Associated with Mockery, Insult and Protection
title_full May the Force Be with You... Gesturality of the Barcelonians Associated with Mockery, Insult and Protection
title_fullStr May the Force Be with You... Gesturality of the Barcelonians Associated with Mockery, Insult and Protection
title_full_unstemmed May the Force Be with You... Gesturality of the Barcelonians Associated with Mockery, Insult and Protection
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Illamola i Gómez, Cristina
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Illamola i Gómez, Cristina
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Comunicació no verbal
Gesture
Nonverbal communication
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Comunicació no verbal
Gesture
Nonverbal communication
description [eng] The aim of the article is to inventory gestures related to mockery, insult, attracting good luck, or warding off bad luck that a group of informants from Barcelona have performed. The data come from the application of the survey from the Atlas de Gestos, whose task is to collect gestures from the Pan-Hispanic context to describe the gestural repertoire of each territory and conduct comparative studies. The results, interpreted based on social factors (gender, age, and level of instruction), confirm the wide range of gestures for different functions (10 for mockery, 11 for insult and attracting good luck, and 9 for warding off bad luck). Regarding differences based on social variables, the results allow for indicating trends, namely, while the most used gesture to express mockery is sticking out the tongue, young people prefer the gesture of pointing and laughing, and informants over 55 years old only prefer laughing. Concerning insults, the use of peineta is widespread, although differences in behavior between men and women are observed. As for attracting good luck, Barcelona informants opt for crossing fingers, although older generations use gestures with more religious connotations, such as clasping hands. Finally, to ward off bad luck, Barcelona locals mention the gesture of crossing made with the index fingers of each hand.
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