RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Sikveland, Rein Ove A1 Ogden, Richard YR 2012 T1 Holding gestures across turns: Moments to generate shared understanding JF Gesture VO 12 IS 2 SP 166 OP 199 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.12.2.03sik PB John Benjamins SN 1568-1475, AB It is widely supposed that speakers only gesture while speaking. In this paper, we consider how participants in Norwegian conversation use gestures held beyond the end of a turn-at-talk as a way to handle issues of shared understanding. Analysis combining the techniques of conversation analysis, linguistic, phonetic and visual analysis, demonstrates how participants use and orient to such held gestures as displays of occasions where participants do not (yet) have a shared understanding. The paper discusses how understanding is explicitly brought forward in a sequence of turns, and how shared understandings are reached and marked through a combination of spoken and gestural elements. The paper emphasizes the temporal progressivity of talk, the delicate timing of speech and gesture relative to one another, and the participants’ collaboration in successfully achieving and maintaining intersubjectivity., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/gest.12.2.03sik