Language and Gesture
Language and Gesture
This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the-art analyses to demonstrate that gestures are not merely an embellishment of speech but are integral parts of language itself. The volume contributes to a rapidly growing field of study, offering a wide range of theoretical perspectives. It has strong cross-linguistic and cross-cultural components, examining gestures by speakers of Mayan, Australian, East Asian, as well as English and European languages.
- Landmark study in a growing field offering state-of-the-art analyses of gesture in relation to speech and thought
- Spans three disciplines - psychology, anthropology and linguistics
- Authors are leading scholars
Product details
August 2000Hardback
9780521771665
420 pages
229 × 152 × 27 mm
0.79kg
44 b/w illus. 31 tables
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Table of Contents
- Introduction David McNeill
- Part I. Gesture in Action:
- 1. Pointing, gesture spaces, and mental maps John Haviland
- 2. Language and gesture: Unity or duality? Adam Kendon
- 3. Verbal and gestural expressions of space in socio-spatial context: The integration of space, spatial modality and spatial context Asli Özyürek
- 4. Gestures that count Charles Goodwin
- 5. Gestural interaction between the instructor and the learner in origami instruction Nobuhiro Furuyama
- 6. Gestures, knowledge, and the world Curtis Le Baron and Jurgen Streeck
- Part II. Gesture in Language:
- 7. Growth points in thinking-for-speaking David McNeill and Susan D. Duncan
- 8. How representational gestures help speaking Sotaro Kita
- 9. When do most spontaneous representational gestures actually occur with respect to speech? Shuichi Nobe
- 10. The disruption of gesture by stuttering: insights into the nature of the gesture-speech integration Rachel I. Mayberry and Joselynne Jaques
- 11. A multichannel view of communication: the grounding of language comprehension in perception Elena Levy and Carol Fowler
- 12. Gesture and the transition from one-to two-word speech: when hand and mouth come together Cynthia Butcher and Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Part III. Modeling Gesture Performance:
- 13. Lexical gestures and lexical access: a process model Robert M. Krauss, Yihsiu Chen and Rebecca F. Gottesman
- 14. The production of gesture and speech Jan Peter de Ruiter
- 15. Catchments and contexts: non-modular factors in speech and gesture production David McNeill
- Part IV. From Gesture to Sign:
- 16. Blended spaces and deixis in sign language discourse Scott Liddell
- 17. Gestural precursors to linguistic constructs: how input shapes the form of language Jill Morford and Judy Kegl
- 18. Gesture to sign (language) William C. Stokoe.
