The throwing away gesture: discourse management in the visual-gestural modality

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This talk proposes a formal analysis of the recurrent *throwing away* gesture (THROW) and its contribution to discourse, thereby refining existing descriptions of its distribution. The THROW gesture (illustrated in the gifs at https://bit.ly/316rYE1 and https://bit.ly/3EddPTF) consists of a single downward flap of a raised hand at the wrist (Bressem & Müller 2014, 2017). We argue that THROW is an operator that makes a not-at-issue contribution conveying the gesturer’s dismissal of a salient proposition. This dismissal is encoded as expressive meaning similar to the meaning of interjections, such as *ouch, oops, alas* (Ameka 1992, Kaplan 1999, Gutzmann 2013, Rett 2021), or, more closely: *pah*. It contributes a stand-alone illocutionary act, independent of any speech that the gesture might accompany.

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