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Ishino, Mika (University of Chicago, Chicago)

Pointing in face-to-face interaction

In pro-drop languages like Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, when pronouns are recoverable in the discourse context, they can be left unexpressed. This paper shows how pointing gestures serve as such a cue in face-to-face interaction in Japanese. In so doing, I will show how zero anaphors (or null pronouns) and gestures pointing to interlocutors interact with one another. In other words, this paper describes that being part of a unifi ed system together with speech, pointing gestures play a pronoun-like role in face-to-face interaction in the pro-drop language, Japanese.