Afryka

No. 45 (2017): Afryka
Artykuły

Nonverbal Ways of Expressing Negation in Hausa Culture

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  • Izabela Will
Izabela Will
Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki, Wydział Orientalistyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Polska

Published 2017-04-01

Keywords

  • co-speech gestures,
  • emblems,
  • Hausa culture,
  • negation,
  • Nigeria

Abstract

Gestures, at first glance, look like spontaneous movements of hands that help the speaker to produce the utterance. A more detailed analysis shows that these movements are strictly associated with certain concepts, and rather than being random, they are meaningful and systemic. The first part of the paper contains an overview of gestures of negation used by Hausa speakers (both emblems and co-speech gestures). In the second part, four types of co-speech gestures are scrutinised: shaking the index finger sideways, hand scissors, brushing the palms against each other and brushing the back of the hands. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the gestures in question co-occur with the specific markers of negation and emphasize one of the meanings or functions of the negation, such as prohibition, refusal, rejection, denial, nonexistence and totality.

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