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Lola has used the verb ‘review’ which John recasts as the more idiomatic ‘revision’,but both of these words are motivated by the same metaphor: ‘looking backwards’.John then develops this idea with another metaphorical expression ‘go back over’,rewordings that pick up and expand on Lola’s. However, the coherence betweenhis contribution and Lola’s is not supported by a gesture that might have drawnLola’s attention to the fact that the words he has uttered are fully consonant withhers. If John had imitated Lola’s rotating gesture, it would have been plain that,like her, he is referring to mental, rather than visual processes. On the other handhis use of a different gesture emphasises the fact that there are different waysof viewing the writing process, and may thus have been very useful for Lola fordifferent reasons as it demonstrates that there are different ways of viewing theessay-writing process. The contrast between their two sets of gestures can beseen most clearly in the following exchange:http://youtu.be/KafKHTG7P6EJohnLolaSo what you have to do in the examis you have to, you have to, so eachlecture is about a different topic andyou have to explain one of thosetopics, urm so maybe language andgender, we talked about language andgender, that as last week, or this weekwas speech, you know, so the featuresof speech compared to the featuresof writing, urm so yes, you do thatMy problem is that they are notdeveloped so they have just insquares, so I have to joint all theideas, so the, what, this is what I haveto doHands facing each other,palms flat vertical choppingmotionWriting gesture with righthand (on ‘developed’), thenleft hand is held palm up whileright hand is held up palm out,moving as if placing objectson a vertical surface (‘just insquares’), then two flat handsmove in circles in verticalplane (‘so I have to joint’), thenpalm up (‘so the’) then pointdown (‘this is [what I have todo]’)362 | International Students