@article{oai:kuis.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000221, author = {瀬戸, 千尋 and セト, チヒロ and SETO, Chihiro}, journal = {異文化コミュニケーション研究}, month = {Mar}, note = {P(論文), It is generally agreed among communication researchers that ways of communicating, especially those of gesturing, vary from culture to culture. Not only styles and meanings of gestures but also their use frequency is culture-bound in connection with the languages used by communicators. In terms of cultural contexts, the frequency of gesture use increases in low-context cultures, whereas it decreases in high-context cultures. In addition, the languages communicators employ may affect the frequency of their gesturing. In this scholarly context, the present research attempts to prove that the frequency of gesture use is affected not only by cultural contexts but also by communicators' chosen languages. Toward this goal, this research empirically compares the gesture use frequency of Japanese-English bilinguals whose mother tongue is Japanese with that of English-Japanese bilinguals whose first language is English, when they switch their languages. The paper first reviews the literature on communicative gesturing, posing two hypotheses concerned. Second, it introduces the research method employed. Third and finally, the paper indicates research results with a discussion on them.}, pages = {65--77}, title = {<研究論文>ジェスチャーの使用頻度に関する実証的研究 : 言語の潜在的影響}, volume = {12}, year = {2000} }