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Elements Of Meaning In Gesture

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Author : Geneviève Calbris
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011

Elements Of Meaning In Gesture written by Geneviève Calbris and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows how various gestural signs can be created in the same gesture by analogical links between physical and semantic elements. Originating in our world experience via mimetic and metonymic processes, these analogical links are activated by contexts of use and thus lead to a diverse range of semantic constructions rather as, from the components of a Meccano kit, many different objects can be assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate between the concrete and the abstract, gesture may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for gesture as a symbolic system in its own right that interfaces with thought and speech production, Calbris' book brings a challenging new perspective to gesture studies and will be seminal for generations of gesture researchers.

Pragmatics Utterance Meaning And Representational Gesture

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Author : Jack Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-02-28

Pragmatics Utterance Meaning And Representational Gesture written by Jack Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only recently that the role of gesture during utterance production and comprehension has been the focus of investigation. If we are to understand the role of gesture in communication, we must answer the following questions: Do gestures communicate? Do people produce gestures with an intention to communicate? This Element argues that the answer to both these questions is yes. Gestures are (or can be) communicative in all the ways language is. This Element arrives at this conclusion on the basis that communication involves prediction. Communicators predict the behaviours of themselves and others, and such predictions guide the production and comprehension of utterance. This Element uses evidence from experimental and neuroscientific studies to argue that people produce gestures because doing so improves such predictions.

The Semantics And Pragmatics Of Everyday Gestures

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Author : Cornelia Müller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

The Semantics And Pragmatics Of Everyday Gestures written by Cornelia Müller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Body language categories.

TABLE OF CONTENT TOWARDS A LEXICOGRAPHY OF GESTURES MASSIMO SERENARI: The structure of dictionary entries - results of empirical investigations REINHARD KRÜGER: Fare le corna and the invention of a novel. Théophile Gautiers Gettatura (1857) and De Jorio's Mimica degli antichi (1832) or, problems of a gesture-etymology GRIGORII E. KREIDLIN: Russian gestures and Russian phraseology I. Types of lexical information and the structure of lexical entries in a dictionary of Russian gestures ISABELLA POGGI: The Italian gestionary. Meaning representation, ambiguity, and context PIO ENRICO RICCI BITTI / SILVANA CONTENTO: Symbolic gestures and gesturing in communication LLUÍS PAYRATÓ: Notes on pragmatic and social aspects of everyday gestures PETER COLLETT: Problems and procedures in the study of gestures TOWARDS A DOCUMENTATION OF GESTURE USES PENNY BOYES BRÄM / THÜRING BRÄM: Expressive gestures used by classical orchestra conductors GENEVIÈVE CALBRIS: Déixis représentative DAVID MCNEILL / KARL-ERIK MCCULLOUGH / SUSAN D. DUNCAN: An ontogenetic universal and how to explain it ADAM KENDON: Contrasts in gesticulation: A Neapolitan and a British speaker compared MONICA RECTOR / SALVATO TRIGO: Body signs: Portuguese communication on three continents MANDANA SEYFEDDINIPUR: Meta-discursive gestures from Iran: Some uses of the 'Pistol Hand' RAGNHILD NEUMANN: The conventionalization of the Ring Gesture in German discourse CHRISTINE KÜHN: Body and soul: Gestures as mediators in communication CORNELIA MÜLLER: Forms and uses of the Palm Up Open Hand: A case of a gesture family?

Metaphor And Gesture

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Author : Alan J. Cienki
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008

Metaphor And Gesture written by Alan J. Cienki and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.

Gesturecraft

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Author : Jürgen Streeck
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009-04-22

Gesturecraft written by Jürgen Streeck and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making sense of it, and symbolizing the interaction process itself. Gesture is analyzed as embodied communicative action grounded in the hands' practical and cognitive engagments with material worlds. The book responds to the quest for the role of the human body in cognition and interaction with an analytic perspective informed by phenomenology, conversation analysis, context analysis, praxeology, and cognitive science. Many of the cross-linguistic video-data of everyday interaction investigated in its chapters are available on-line.

Gesture And Thought

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Author : David McNeill
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15

Gesture And Thought written by David McNeill and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Psychology categories.

Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, set about answering this question over twenty-five years ago. In Gesture and Thought he brings together years of this research, arguing that gesturing, an act which has been popularly understood as an accessory to speech, is actually a dialectical component of language. Gesture and Thought expands on McNeill’s acclaimed classic Hand and Mind. While that earlier work demonstrated what gestures reveal about thought, here gestures are shown to be active participants in both speaking and thinking. Expanding on an approach introduced by Lev Vygotsky in the 1930s, McNeill posits that gestures are key ingredients in an “imagery-language dialectic” that fuels both speech and thought. Gestures are both the “imagery” and components of “language.” The smallest element of this dialectic is the “growth point,” a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, and language groups, McNeill shows how growth points organize themselves into utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking. An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of human communication and thought, Gesture and Thought is a work of such consequence that it will influence all subsequent theory on the subject.

The Gestural Origin Of Language

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Author : David F. Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-04-19

The Gestural Origin Of Language written by David F. Armstrong and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-19 with Psychology categories.

In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today. According to their model, it is sign, not spoken languages, that is the original mode of human communication. The authors demonstrate that modern language is derived from practical actions and gestures that were increasingly recognized as having the potential to represent, and hence to communicate. In other words, the fundamental ability that allows us to use language is our ability to use pictures or icons, rather than linguistic symbols. Evidence from the human fossil record supports the authors' claim by showing that we were anatomically able to produce gestures and signs before we were able to speak fluently. Although speech evolved later as a secondary linguistic communication device that eventually replaced sign language as the primary mode of communication, speech has never entirely replaced signs and gestures. As the first comprehensive attempt to trace the origin of grammar to gesture, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students and professionals in psychology, linguistics, and philosophy.

The Anatomy Of Meaning

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Author : N. J. Enfield
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-26

The Anatomy Of Meaning written by N. J. Enfield and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible phenomena to create unified 'composite utterances'. In this book N. J. Enfield presents original case studies of speech-with-gesture based on fieldwork carried out with speakers of Lao (a language of Southeast Asia). He examines pointing gestures (including lip and finger-pointing) and illustrative gestures (examples include depicting fish traps and tracing kinship relations). His detailed analyses focus on the 'semiotic unification' problem, that is, how to make a single interpretation when multiple signs occur together. Enfield's arguments have implications for all branches of science with a stake in meaning and its place in human social life. The book will appeal to all researchers interested in the study of meaning, including linguists, anthropologists, and psychologists.

Grammar Gesture And Meaning In American Sign Language

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Author : Scott K. Liddell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-03-13

Grammar Gesture And Meaning In American Sign Language written by Scott K. Liddell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

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Recent Perspectives On Gesture And Multimodality

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Author : Anabela Cruz-Santos
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-14

Recent Perspectives On Gesture And Multimodality written by Anabela Cruz-Santos and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

What is gesture and what does it do? What is the meaning of multimodality? What do these concepts signify within the different theoretical approaches to interaction and communication among human beings? Why do we study gesture and multimodality? The thirteen chapters that make up this volume provide answers to these questions. They bring together an eclectic set of recent studies on visible bodily actions conducted by junior and senior researchers and are a testimony to the curiosity and vitality that have always distinguished gesture studies. This young yet rapidly growing field investigates the semiotic features of gesture in relation to speech as integral parts of utterances, the different uses of gestures with and without speech, such as gestures in language acquisition, gestures in the performing arts (music, dance, theatre) and gestures in Artificial Intelligence.