Integrating Gestures : The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture
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Integrating Gestures : The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture

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Integrating Gestures : The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture

About this book

Gestures convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers and with humans. Consequently, the modern field of gesture studies has attracted researchers from a number of different disciplines such as anthropology, cognitive science, communication, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, primatology, psychology, robotics, sociology and semiotics. This volume presents an overview of the depth and breadth of current research in gesture. Its focus is on the interdisciplinary nature of gesture. The chapters included in the volume are divided into six themes: the nature and functions of gesture, first language development and gesture, second language effects on gesture, gesture in the classroom and in problem solving, gesture aspects of discourse and interaction, and gestural analysis of music and dance.

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Table of contents

  1. Integrating Gestures
  2. Editorial page
  3. Title page
  4. LCC data
  5. Table of contents
  6. Part I. Nature and functions of gestures
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction
  8. Chapter 2. Addressing the problems of intentionality and granularity in non-human primate gesture
  9. Chapter 3. Birth of a Morph
  10. Chapter 4. Dyadic evidence for grounding with abstract deictic gestures
  11. Chapter 5. If you don’t already know, I’m certainly not going to show you!
  12. Chapter 6. Measuring the formal diversity of hand gestures by their hamming distance
  13. Chapter 7. ‘Parallel gesturing’ in adult-child conversations
  14. Part II. First language development and gesture
  15. Chapter 8. Sentences and conversations before speech?
  16. Chapter 9. Giving a nod to social cognition
  17. Chapter 10. Sensitivity of maternal gesture to interlocutor and context
  18. Chapter 11. The organization of children’s pointing stroke endpoints
  19. Chapter 12. Is there an iconic gesture spurt at 26 months?
  20. Chapter 13. The development of spatial perspective in the description of large-scale environments
  21. Chapter 14. Learning to use gesture in narratives
  22. Chapter 15. The changing role of gesture form and function in a picture book interaction between a child with autism and his support teacher
  23. Part III. Second language effects on gesture
  24. Chapter 16. A cross-linguistic study of verbal and gestural descriptions in French and Japanese monolingual and bilingual children
  25. Chapter 17. Gesture and language shift on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border
  26. Part IV. Gesture in the classroom and in problem-solving
  27. Chapter 18. Seeing the graph vs. being the graph
  28. Chapter 19. How gesture use enables intersubjectivity in the classroom
  29. Chapter 20. Microgenesis of gestures during mental rotation tasks recapitulates ontogenesis
  30. Part V. Gesture aspects of discourse and interaction
  31. Chapter 21. Gesture and discourse
  32. Chapter 22. Speakers’ use of ‘action’ and ‘entity’ gestures with definite and indefinite references
  33. Chapter 23. “Voices” and bodies
  34. Chapter 24. Gestures in overlap
  35. Part VI. Gestural analysis of music and dance
  36. Chapter 25. Music and leadership
  37. Chapter 26. Handjabber
  38. Name index
  39. Subject index