Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 168):
In example (4), a biochemistry lecturer instructs students to take note of and remember a key technical term, saying and that’s a word you should encode. Synchronous with word he points to his mouth (locating the source of words), and synchronous with encode he points to his head (as the location of memory).
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To be clear, these are instances of using body language to make endophoric reference. Here material elements of outer experience (mouth, temple) ideationally construe semiotic elements of inner experience (word, encode), and the pointing gesture signals that those meanings are recoverable from those construals by body language.
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