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batonic gesture Beating gesture used for emphasis, e.g. to reinforce major stresses in the accompanying utterance.
Example:I mean it's like Eddie says, [1.0 sec pause] as time goes on it gets worse'n worse'n worse'n worse [with thrusting gesture on time and on each instance of worse] (From Schegloff, 1984).
Topic: Gesturing