Yet spoken ideophones may signal depictive and descriptive qualities via speech, while manual actions may signal depictive, descriptive, and indexical qualities via the shape, movement, and placement of the hands in space. For example, tokens of spoken ideophones and manual depicting actions may both be analysed as iconic forms.
However, when it comes to analysing and comparing iconicity across different interactions (e.g., deaf, deafblind, hearing) and modes of communication (e.g., manual signs, speech, writing), it is not always clear we are looking at the same thing. Investigations of iconicity in language, whereby interactants coordinate meaningful bodily actions to create resemblances, are prevalent across the human communication sciences. 3Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.2College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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