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LolaJohnOr maybe my house when I read all thePowerPoints I try to do a story in mymind and I do, like, an outlineRightLH palm up, RH index fingermoves L to R over LH, RHchanges to two fingers as ifholding small object (‘read allthe PowerPoints’), then bothhands waving on each side ofher head near her temples,then RH with index fingerpointing toward her foreheadmoves out and down (‘I do,like, an outline’).In this extract, which immediately follows the one described above, Lola stretchesher hand out to one side perhaps to indicate the linear nature of an essay. Johnpicks up on this and along with her previous utterance in which she talks aboutjoining ideas, and introduces the idea of a ‘story’. At this point, he makes use of asmall rotating gesture which echoes the small rotating gestures that she has beenusing throughout the tutorial. However, he immediately goes back to using thetwo-handed vertical chopping gestures (as if compartmentalising things) when hetalks about ‘pieces’ of information using a series of ‘placing’ gestures that are inthe air, perhaps because they represent abstract concepts. He appears to havepicked up on her ‘flow’ gesture possibly because this represents ‘narrative’. Lolacontinues to use flowing gestures, which are then used by John and the exchangeends with Lola making a rotation gesture near her temples, perhaps to indicatethat the mental process in her head. John looks at her very attentively at this pointsuggesting that there is a close alignment between the two of them at this stageof their conversation. The ‘story’ metaphor (including its accompanying gestures)creates the shared space for common ground. The story is a new conception,which is a blend of her flow and his structure model. Much later on in the tutorial,Lola appears to have taken the idea of structuring an essay on board:http://youtu.be/yveCNusbU-0364 | International Students