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Peer reviewedCreider, Chet A. – Sign Language Studies, 1977
This paper describes the gestural behavior of four tribal groups, Kipsigis, Luo, Gusii, and Samburu, observed and elicted in the course of two and one-half years of field work in Western Kenya in 1970-72. The gestures are grouped into four categories: (1) initiators and finalizers of interaction; (2) imperatives; (3) responses; (4) qualifiers.…
Descriptors: African Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, Bantu Languages, Body Language
Creider, Chet A. – 1978
Data from videotaped conversations in a number of East African languages and in English are used to establish the existence of a preference in the African interactional systems for the use of verbal feedback by listeners in contrast to a preference for the use of non-verbal (gaze, head nod) feedback in English. This difference is related to…
Descriptors: African Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, Body Language, Cultural Context
