Jennifer Gerwing
Biographic Data
| ID | 198050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Gerwing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerwing |
| SIGNATURE | GERWING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6211-8723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Communicative Practices Clinicians Use to Correct Patient Misconceptions in Primary Care Visits
To investigate how clinicians correct patient misconceptions, we analyzed 23 video recordings of primary care visits. Analysis focused on operationalizing, identifying, and characterizing clinician corrections, integrating two inductive approaches: microanalysis of clinical interaction and conversation analysis. According to our definition, patient misconception-clinician correction episodes met three essential criteria: (1) the clinician refuted…
How Do Physicians Frame Medical Information in Talks With Their Patients? An Inductive Microanalysis
During medical consultations, physicians need to share a substantial amount of information with their patients. How this information is framed can be crucial for patient understanding and outcomes, but little is known about the details of how physicians frame information in practice. Using an inductive microanalysis approach in the study of videotaped medical interactions, we aimed to identify the information frames (i.e., higher-level ways of or…
Pre-empting Understanding Problems in L1/L2 Conversations
This study presents a quantitative analysis of pre-emptive strategies used by first language speakers in talk addressed to second language speakers with moderate proficiency. The strategies identified in the conversations are reformulation, simplification, left-dislocation, and decomposition. The data come from simulated emergency calls in which an (L1) ‘operator’ instructed a (L2) ‘caller’ how to put a ‘patient’ (a manikin) in the recovery posit…
Body-oriented gestures as a practitioner's window into interpreted communication
With increasing global migration, health care providers and patients may lack a shared language. Interpreters help to secure understanding. Doctors and patients cannot evaluate how the interpreter translates their utterances; however, they can see hand movements, which can provide a window into the interpretation process. While research on natural language use has acknowledged the semiotic contribution of co-speech gestures (i.e., spontaneous han…
Doing mutual understanding. Calibrating with micro-sequences in face-to-face dialogue
Effect of Dialogue on Demonstrations
Demonstrations (e.g., direct quotations, conversational facial portrayals, conversational hand gestures, and figurative references) lack conventional meanings, relying instead on a resemblance to their referent. Two experiments tested our theory that demonstrations are a class of communicative acts that speakers are more likely to use in dialogue than in monologue. We compared speakers' rates of demonstrations in face-to-face dialogues, telephone…
The flexible semantic integration of gestures and words
One measure of the communicative function of gestures is to test how speakers’ gestures are influenced by whether an addressee can see them or not, that is, by manipulating visibility between participants. We question traditional dependent variables (i.e., rate measures), suggesting that they may have been insufficient for capturing essential differences in the gestures speakers use in each condition. We propose that investigating the qualitative…
The relationship between verbal and gestural contributions in conversation
Gestures and their concurrent words are often said to be meaningfully related and co-expressive. Research has shown that gestures and words are each particularly suited to conveying different kinds of information. In this paper, we describe and compare three methods for investigating the relationship between gestures and words: (1) an analysis of deictic expressions referring to gestures, (2) an analysis of the redundancy between information pres…
Linguistic influences on gesture’s form
Hand gestures in face-to-face dialogue are symbolic acts, integrated with speech. Little is known about the factors that determine the physical form of these gestures. When the gesture depicts a previous nonsymbolic action, it obviously resembles this action; however, such gestures are not only noticeably different from the original action but, when they occur in a series, are different from each other. This paper presents an experiment with two …
Language and Gesture
Language and Gesture. David McNeill. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 420 pp
Linguistic influences on gesture’s form
Hand gestures in face-to-face dialogue are symbolic acts, integrated with speech. Little is known about the factors that determine the physical form of these gestures. When the gesture depicts a previous nonsymbolic action, it obviously resembles this action; however, such gestures are not only noticeably different from the original action but, when they occur in a series, are different from each other. This paper presents an experiment with two …
Doing mutual understanding. Calibrating with micro-sequences in face-to-face dialogue
Effect of Dialogue on Demonstrations
Demonstrations (e.g., direct quotations, conversational facial portrayals, conversational hand gestures, and figurative references) lack conventional meanings, relying instead on a resemblance to their referent. Two experiments tested our theory that demonstrations are a class of communicative acts that speakers are more likely to use in dialogue than in monologue. We compared speakers' rates of demonstrations in face-to-face dialogues, telephone…
Body-oriented gestures as a practitioner's window into interpreted communication
With increasing global migration, health care providers and patients may lack a shared language. Interpreters help to secure understanding. Doctors and patients cannot evaluate how the interpreter translates their utterances; however, they can see hand movements, which can provide a window into the interpretation process. While research on natural language use has acknowledged the semiotic contribution of co-speech gestures (i.e., spontaneous han…
The relationship between verbal and gestural contributions in conversation
Gestures and their concurrent words are often said to be meaningfully related and co-expressive. Research has shown that gestures and words are each particularly suited to conveying different kinds of information. In this paper, we describe and compare three methods for investigating the relationship between gestures and words: (1) an analysis of deictic expressions referring to gestures, (2) an analysis of the redundancy between information pres…
The flexible semantic integration of gestures and words
One measure of the communicative function of gestures is to test how speakers’ gestures are influenced by whether an addressee can see them or not, that is, by manipulating visibility between participants. We question traditional dependent variables (i.e., rate measures), suggesting that they may have been insufficient for capturing essential differences in the gestures speakers use in each condition. We propose that investigating the qualitative…
Language and Gesture
Language and Gesture. David McNeill. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 420 pp
Linguistic influences on gesture’s form
Hand gestures in face-to-face dialogue are symbolic acts, integrated with speech. Little is known about the factors that determine the physical form of these gestures. When the gesture depicts a previous nonsymbolic action, it obviously resembles this action; however, such gestures are not only noticeably different from the original action but, when they occur in a series, are different from each other. This paper presents an experiment with two …
The relationship between verbal and gestural contributions in conversation
Gestures and their concurrent words are often said to be meaningfully related and co-expressive. Research has shown that gestures and words are each particularly suited to conveying different kinds of information. In this paper, we describe and compare three methods for investigating the relationship between gestures and words: (1) an analysis of deictic expressions referring to gestures, (2) an analysis of the redundancy between information pres…
The flexible semantic integration of gestures and words
One measure of the communicative function of gestures is to test how speakers’ gestures are influenced by whether an addressee can see them or not, that is, by manipulating visibility between participants. We question traditional dependent variables (i.e., rate measures), suggesting that they may have been insufficient for capturing essential differences in the gestures speakers use in each condition. We propose that investigating the qualitative…
Effect of Dialogue on Demonstrations
Demonstrations (e.g., direct quotations, conversational facial portrayals, conversational hand gestures, and figurative references) lack conventional meanings, relying instead on a resemblance to their referent. Two experiments tested our theory that demonstrations are a class of communicative acts that speakers are more likely to use in dialogue than in monologue. We compared speakers' rates of demonstrations in face-to-face dialogues, telephone…
Doing mutual understanding. Calibrating with micro-sequences in face-to-face dialogue
Pre-empting Understanding Problems in L1/L2 Conversations
This study presents a quantitative analysis of pre-emptive strategies used by first language speakers in talk addressed to second language speakers with moderate proficiency. The strategies identified in the conversations are reformulation, simplification, left-dislocation, and decomposition. The data come from simulated emergency calls in which an (L1) ‘operator’ instructed a (L2) ‘caller’ how to put a ‘patient’ (a manikin) in the recovery posit…
Body-oriented gestures as a practitioner's window into interpreted communication
With increasing global migration, health care providers and patients may lack a shared language. Interpreters help to secure understanding. Doctors and patients cannot evaluate how the interpreter translates their utterances; however, they can see hand movements, which can provide a window into the interpretation process. While research on natural language use has acknowledged the semiotic contribution of co-speech gestures (i.e., spontaneous han…
Communicative Practices Clinicians Use to Correct Patient Misconceptions in Primary Care Visits
To investigate how clinicians correct patient misconceptions, we analyzed 23 video recordings of primary care visits. Analysis focused on operationalizing, identifying, and characterizing clinician corrections, integrating two inductive approaches: microanalysis of clinical interaction and conversation analysis. According to our definition, patient misconception-clinician correction episodes met three essential criteria: (1) the clinician refuted…
How Do Physicians Frame Medical Information in Talks With Their Patients? An Inductive Microanalysis
During medical consultations, physicians need to share a substantial amount of information with their patients. How this information is framed can be crucial for patient understanding and outcomes, but little is known about the details of how physicians frame information in practice. Using an inductive microanalysis approach in the study of videotaped medical interactions, we aimed to identify the information frames (i.e., higher-level ways of or…
Psychology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Gesture (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works)