Kawai Chui
Biographic Data
| ID | 659328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kawai Chui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kawai |
| FAMILY NAME | Chui |
| SIGNATURE | CHUI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Chengchi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1279-383X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Do gestures compensate for language deficiency in interactional discourse?
This study investigated speech obstacles of Taiwanese Mandarin-speaking late talkers at 24 months of age by analyzing their use of gestures independently or alongside speech to resolve communicative challenges, compared to age-matched typically developing children. Spontaneous gesture and speech data were collected during mother–child interactions. Children’s linguistic abilities were also assessed using the Taiwan version of the MacArthur-Bates …
Self-repair in Chinese, Russian, and Czech narrative discourse
This study investigated repetition, replacement, and morphological repairs in narrative discourse across Taiwan Mandarin, Russian, and Czech to identify common and language-specific self-repair patterns in sister and non-sister languages. Repair rate, recycling scope, and morphosyntactic features of trouble sources and recycled constituents were analyzed. Repetition repair was the most frequent type to delay speech production across all languages…
Spatial conceptualization of sequence time in language and gesture
The study investigates the consistency and divergence between language and gesture in the expression of spatial orientations in the metaphorical conceptualization of sequence time, and the influence of the diversity in the reading and writing practices used in Taiwan on the spatialization of earlier and later events across modalities. The study was based on Chinese conversational data in face-to-face communication. The spontaneous gestures occurr…
Entity Metaphor, Object Gesture, and Context of Use
The study investigates the manifestation of the “IDEA-IS-AN-ENTITY” metaphor across the linguistic and manual modalities by the use of the object gesture in daily conversation, to understand the relationship between metaphorical conceptualization and the context of use. Two types of the entity metaphor were distinguished: “cross-modal entity metaphor” and “gesture-only entity metaphor.” For the former, the metaphor was expressed by metaphorical s…
Mimicked gestures and the joint construction of meaning in conversation
Cross-linguistic comparison of representations of motion in language and gesture
In the linguistic-gestural representation of motion events, the past studies showed that manner and path in English are mentioned within one clause, and the two components can be represented together in one gesture. In Turkish and Japanese, they are expressed separately in two clauses, and two separate gestures — one for manner and one for path — are produced accordingly. The present study investigates the linguistic-gestural expression of motion…
Gestural Manifestation of Knowledge in Conceptual Frames
Frames are cognitive structures of knowledge grounded in people's social interaction in recurrent sociocultural activities or individual incidences. Discussion concerning the knowledge in frames largely focuses on its linguistic manifestation with regard to roles and role relations in scenes. Little attention has been paid to the scriptal knowledge in conceptual frames. The present study provides empirical evidence that frame knowledge is also re…
Do gestures compensate for the omission of motion expression in speech
The present study investigates whether and to what extent motion-event gestures compensate for the omission of linguistic expression in Chinese discourse and across different languages to understand language-specificity/language-universality and the coordination of motion information across the two modalities. The Chinese conversational and narrative data consistently show that manner fog (i.e., manner absent from speech but present in gesture) w…
Conceptual metaphors in gesture
This study investigates metaphoric gestures in face-to-face conversation. It is found that gestures of this kind are mainly performed in the central gesture space with noticeable and discernable configurations, providing visible evidence for cross-domain cognitive mappings and the grounding of conceptual metaphors in people's recurrent bodily experiences and in what people habitually do in social and cultural practices. Moreover, whether metaphor…
Conversational coherence and gesture
The present study claims that the use of spontaneous gestures can contribute to accomplishing coherence in sequential conversational exchanges. Three types of speech-accompanying gestures were analyzed in Chinese conversation. Based on the syntactic-semantic relation with the co-occurring utterance, the first type is associated with words that do not convey explicit meaning; the second type is associated with covert constituents; the third type d…
Linguistic and imagistic representations of motion events
Temporal patterning of speech and iconic gestures in conversational discourse
Is the correlation between grounding and transitivity universal
This paper studies the correlation between grounding and transitivity in Chinese narratives and conversations based on the ten Transitivity features proposed by Hopper and Thompson (1980), to examine the universality of the correlation across different spoken discourse and different languages. According to the percentages of high-transitivity features vis-à-vis grounding, highly transitive clauses in Chinese narratives, just like English written …
Temporal patterning of speech and iconic gestures in conversational discourse
Mimicked gestures and the joint construction of meaning in conversation
Conceptual metaphors in gesture
This study investigates metaphoric gestures in face-to-face conversation. It is found that gestures of this kind are mainly performed in the central gesture space with noticeable and discernable configurations, providing visible evidence for cross-domain cognitive mappings and the grounding of conceptual metaphors in people's recurrent bodily experiences and in what people habitually do in social and cultural practices. Moreover, whether metaphor…
Linguistic and imagistic representations of motion events
Cross-linguistic comparison of representations of motion in language and gesture
In the linguistic-gestural representation of motion events, the past studies showed that manner and path in English are mentioned within one clause, and the two components can be represented together in one gesture. In Turkish and Japanese, they are expressed separately in two clauses, and two separate gestures — one for manner and one for path — are produced accordingly. The present study investigates the linguistic-gestural expression of motion…
Is the correlation between grounding and transitivity universal
This paper studies the correlation between grounding and transitivity in Chinese narratives and conversations based on the ten Transitivity features proposed by Hopper and Thompson (1980), to examine the universality of the correlation across different spoken discourse and different languages. According to the percentages of high-transitivity features vis-à-vis grounding, highly transitive clauses in Chinese narratives, just like English written …
Temporal patterning of speech and iconic gestures in conversational discourse
Conversational coherence and gesture
The present study claims that the use of spontaneous gestures can contribute to accomplishing coherence in sequential conversational exchanges. Three types of speech-accompanying gestures were analyzed in Chinese conversation. Based on the syntactic-semantic relation with the co-occurring utterance, the first type is associated with words that do not convey explicit meaning; the second type is associated with covert constituents; the third type d…
Linguistic and imagistic representations of motion events
Do gestures compensate for the omission of motion expression in speech
The present study investigates whether and to what extent motion-event gestures compensate for the omission of linguistic expression in Chinese discourse and across different languages to understand language-specificity/language-universality and the coordination of motion information across the two modalities. The Chinese conversational and narrative data consistently show that manner fog (i.e., manner absent from speech but present in gesture) w…
Conceptual metaphors in gesture
This study investigates metaphoric gestures in face-to-face conversation. It is found that gestures of this kind are mainly performed in the central gesture space with noticeable and discernable configurations, providing visible evidence for cross-domain cognitive mappings and the grounding of conceptual metaphors in people's recurrent bodily experiences and in what people habitually do in social and cultural practices. Moreover, whether metaphor…
Cross-linguistic comparison of representations of motion in language and gesture
In the linguistic-gestural representation of motion events, the past studies showed that manner and path in English are mentioned within one clause, and the two components can be represented together in one gesture. In Turkish and Japanese, they are expressed separately in two clauses, and two separate gestures — one for manner and one for path — are produced accordingly. The present study investigates the linguistic-gestural expression of motion…
Gestural Manifestation of Knowledge in Conceptual Frames
Frames are cognitive structures of knowledge grounded in people's social interaction in recurrent sociocultural activities or individual incidences. Discussion concerning the knowledge in frames largely focuses on its linguistic manifestation with regard to roles and role relations in scenes. Little attention has been paid to the scriptal knowledge in conceptual frames. The present study provides empirical evidence that frame knowledge is also re…
Mimicked gestures and the joint construction of meaning in conversation
Entity Metaphor, Object Gesture, and Context of Use
The study investigates the manifestation of the “IDEA-IS-AN-ENTITY” metaphor across the linguistic and manual modalities by the use of the object gesture in daily conversation, to understand the relationship between metaphorical conceptualization and the context of use. Two types of the entity metaphor were distinguished: “cross-modal entity metaphor” and “gesture-only entity metaphor.” For the former, the metaphor was expressed by metaphorical s…
Spatial conceptualization of sequence time in language and gesture
The study investigates the consistency and divergence between language and gesture in the expression of spatial orientations in the metaphorical conceptualization of sequence time, and the influence of the diversity in the reading and writing practices used in Taiwan on the spatialization of earlier and later events across modalities. The study was based on Chinese conversational data in face-to-face communication. The spontaneous gestures occurr…
Do gestures compensate for language deficiency in interactional discourse?
This study investigated speech obstacles of Taiwanese Mandarin-speaking late talkers at 24 months of age by analyzing their use of gestures independently or alongside speech to resolve communicative challenges, compared to age-matched typically developing children. Spontaneous gesture and speech data were collected during mother–child interactions. Children’s linguistic abilities were also assessed using the Taiwan version of the MacArthur-Bates …
Self-repair in Chinese, Russian, and Czech narrative discourse
This study investigated repetition, replacement, and morphological repairs in narrative discourse across Taiwan Mandarin, Russian, and Czech to identify common and language-specific self-repair patterns in sister and non-sister languages. Repair rate, recycling scope, and morphosyntactic features of trouble sources and recycled constituents were analyzed. Repetition repair was the most frequent type to delay speech production across all languages…
Gesture (11 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (11 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Communication (10 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Communication (8 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (8 works)