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• FOREWORD BY IVAN FONAGY PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTATION I. Determining the Relevant Features of a Gestural Expression: An Intracultural Experimental Study II. The Iconic and Cultural Nature of Gesture: An Intercultural Experimental Study III. Physical Components of the Gestural Sign IV. Semantic Fields of the Gestural Sign V. Mimic Representation VI. The Relationship between Signifier and Signified: Motivation VII. An Application: The Motivation of Refusal VIII. Gesture and Speech CONCLUSION APPENDIXES REFERENCES INDEX.
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Everyone gestures while speaking, in a specific and generally unconscious manner. What are the functions of gestures? What relationship do they have to speech? How do gestures work to create meaning? In this valuable book, Genevieve Calbris undertakes to answer those questions. Based on the author's own extensive experimental research, The Semiotics of French Gestures presents a systematic description and a detailed semiotic analysis of French gestures. The book aims to establish a structual semantics of the set of gestures and facial expressions that accompany or replace spoken language. As this book demonstrates, the study of gesturing is indispensable to a full understanding of a foreign language and its use in real-life situations. The Semiotics of French Gestures will be a valuable source for scholars and students of communication, semiotics, linguistics, and languages.
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• Preface Introduction: Keith Thomas
• 1. Walking, Standing and Sitting in Ancient Greek Culture: Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen)
• 2. Gestures and Convention: the gestures of Roman actors and orators: Fritz Graf (University of Basel)
• 3. The Rationale of Gestures in the West: third to thirteenth centuries: Jean-Claude Schmitt (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
• 4. The Language of Gesture in Early Modern Italy: Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
• 5. The Renaissance Elbow: Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Gallery)
• 6. The Order of Gestures: a social history of sensibilities under the Ancien Regime in France: Robert Muchembled (France)
• 7. The `Hand of Friendship': shaking hands and other gestures in the Dutch Republic: Herman Roodenburg (P.J. Meertens Instituut)
• 8. Gesture, Ritual and Social Order in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Poland: Maria Bogucka (Poland)
• 9. The Kiss Sacred and Profane: reflections on a cross-cultural confrontation: Willem Frijhoff (Netherlands)
• 10. Gestured Masculinity: body and sociability in rural Andalusia: Henk Driessen (Netherlands) Gestures in History: a select bibliography (Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg). Notes on Contributors.
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People are often inclined to view our gestures as something "natural". Yet a closer look at history tells us that they change from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with vital insights into social and cultural developments of the past. This book sets out to explore such changes in the development of gestures - from modes of walking and oratorial gesture in Greece and Rome to the origin of the modern handshake, from the arm akimbo in Renaissance portraiture to early modern table manners, from Spanish tavern sociability to the modern kiss. These discrete accounts place the history of gestures in their wider cultural context and together form a vivid picture of life and manners through the centuries.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Pt.
• 1: Setting the Stage
• 1: Images, Inside and Out
• 2: Conventions, Gestures, and Signs Pt.
• 2: Varieties of Gesture
• 3: Guide to Gesture Classification, Transcription, and Distribution
• 4: Gestures of the Concrete
• 5: Experiment on Gestures of the Concrete
• 6: Gestures of the Abstract Pt.
• 3: Theory
• 7: Gestures and Discourse
• 8: Self-Organization of Gesture and Speech
• 9: How Gestures Affect Thought
• 10: Experiments on Self-Organization Pt.
• 4: Topics
• 11: Children
• 12: The Brain Appendix: Procedures for Eliciting, Recording, Coding, and Experimenting with Gestures References Index.
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Using data from more than ten years of research, David McNeill seeks to show that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. This text argues that because gestures directly transfer mental images to visible forms, conveying ideas that language cannot always express, we must examine language and gesture together to unveil the operations of the mind.
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• Preface
• 1. The universe of gesture
• 2. The nature of gesture
• 3. Are signed and spoken languages differently organized?
• 4. Is language modular?
• 5. Do we have a genetically programmed drive to acquire language?
• 6. Language from the body politic
• 7. The origin of syntax: gesture as name and relation
• 8. Language from the body: an evolutionary perspective
• References
• Index.
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This book proposes a radical alternative to dominant views of the evolution of language, and in particular the origins of syntax. The authors argue that manual and vocal communication developed in parallel, and that the basic elements of syntax are intrinsic to gesture. They draw on evidence from areas such as primatology, anthropology, and linguistics, to present a groundbreaking account of the notion that language emerged through visible bodily action. They go on to examine the implications of their findings for linguistic theory and theories of the biological evolution of the capacity for language. Written in a clear and accessible style, Gesture and the Nature of Language will be indispensable reading for all those interested in the origins of language.
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• Pt. 1. Space in language and gesture
• pt. 2. Point of view and referential shift
• pt. 3. Morpho-syntax of verbs in ASL
• pt. 4. Gestural systems and sign language
• pt. 5. Language acquisition and gesture.

This study brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the nature and structure of sign languages and other gesteral systems, and how they exploit the space in which they are conveyed.
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Features a new introduction on the nature and function of gestures, substantially enlarged contents, a wider selection of sources, expanded commentary to many gestures, and more illustrations. It describes culturally transmitted gestures from printed and pictorial sources, arranging the descriptions according to the parts of the body executing the respective gestures as well as by their significance.
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This text contains papers presented at the First Gesture Workshop, which was designed to bring together researchers working on gesture-based interfaces and gestural interaction and to provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of ideas and research currently in progress. All aspects of gestural interaction were encompassed, including: what gestures are; appropriateness of gestures used in interfaces; interactional issues; suitable applications; and sign-language recognition. The book should be of interest to researchers in the fields of gestural interaction, human-computer interaction, multi-modal interfaces, automatic sign language interpretation and pattern recognition.
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• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• An introduction to signed languages
• 1. Neuropsychology of communicative movements
• 2. Neural disorders of language and movement: Evidence from American sign language
• 3. Emotional and conversational non-verbal signals
• 4. Language from faces : Uses of the face in speech and in sign
• 5. Triangulating the growth point - Arriving at consciousness
• 6. The role of speech-related arm/hand gestures in word retrieval
• 7. Development of gesture with and without speech in hearing and deaf children
• 8. Do signers gesture?
• 9. Signs, gestures, and signs
• 10. Two modes - two languages?
• 11. Embodied conversational agents: A new paradigm for study of gesture and for human computer interface.
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Gestures are a special sort of action. They communicate the individual's moods and desires to the world and they operate under different psychological and cognitive constraints to other actions. The connections between gesture and language - spoken and signed - pose some fascinating questions. How intimately are gesture and language connected? Did one evolve from the other? To what extent are they similarly processed in the brain? In what ways are signed languages akin to spoken language and gestures? Gesture, Speech, and Sign examines these questions, bringing together an international array of expertise to explore the origins, neurobiology, and uses of these three communication systems. A unique feature of the book is its discussion of how a greater understanding of these issues can be used to improve human-computer interactions. Designed to appeal to a multi-disciplinary audience Gesture, Speech, and Sign will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science, and those involved in deaf studies.
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Life in Rome was relentlessly public and oratory was at its heart. In this in-depth study of oratorical gestures and crowd acclamations as methods of communication at public spectacles, the author seeks to recapture the original context of these interactive, dramatic and contentious public performances. At the most basic level, the book is a study of communication - how Roman speakers communicated with their audiences and how audiences in turn were able to reply and convey their reactions to the speakers. Aldrete begins by investigating how orators employed an extraordinarily sophisticated system of hand and body gestures in order to enhance the persuasive power of their speeches. He then turns to the target of these orations, the audience, and examines how they responded through the mechanism of acclamations, that is rhythmically shouted comments. The author finds that much in these ancient spectacles that is relevant to modern questions of political propaganda, manipulation of public image, crowd behaviour and speechmaking.
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• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii NOTE TO THE READER xv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii Introduction 3 ONE Nonverbal Communication 12 Circumstantial Notices in Literature 12 Illustrations 16 Continuities 20 Generally Understandable 22 Mostly Greek 26 Summary 28 TWO Some Attic Red-Figure Scenes 29 The Vote on the Arms of Achilles 29 Sociabilities 32 Come Here 33 Summary 35 THREE Homer 36 Demonstrative: Homer Iliad 16.844 36 "Incomplete" Conditional Sentence 37 Aposiopesis 38 Gesture for Apodosis 39 Gesture for Protasis 45 Summary 46 FOUR Archaic Poets 48 Archilochus 48 Pindar 50 Summary 52 FIVE Tragedy 53 Aeschylus 54 Sophocles 57 Euripides 63 Summary 66 SIX Aristophanes 67 Quotation and Parody 67 Continuities: Curses! 73 Summary 77 SEVEN Orators 78 Forensic Oratory 78 Deliberative or Display Oratory 79 Alcidamas 80 Antiphon 80 Andocides 83 Lysias 85 Demosthenes 88 Lycurgus 90 The Law Code of Gortyn 91 Summary 93 EIGHT Historians 94 Herodotus 94 Thucydides 99 Xenophon 105 Summary 108 NINE Plato 110 Plato's Characters in Action 110 Summary 125 Conclusion 126 BIBLIOGRAPHY 131 ART INDEX 141 lNDEX LOCORUM 143 GENERAL INDEX 149.
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"When a Gesture Was Expected" encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy. All these works anticipated performing readers, and, as a result, they included prompts, places where a gesture could complete a sentence or amplify or comment on the written words. In this radical and highly accessible book, Alan Boegehold urges all readers to supplement the traditional avenues of classical philology with an awareness of the uses of nonverbal communication in Hellenic antiquity. This additional resource helps to explain some persistently confusing syntaxes and to make translations more accurate. It also imparts a living breath to these immortal texts. Where part of a work appears to be missing, or the syntax is irregular, or the words seem contradictory or perverse - without evidence of copyists' errors or physical damage - an ancient author may have been assuming that a performing reader would make the necessary clarifying gesture. Boegehold offers analyses of many such instances in selected passages ranging from Homer to Aeschylus to Plato. He also presents a review of sources of information about such gestures in antiquity as well as thirty illustrations, some documenting millennia-long continuities in nonverbal communication.
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• List of plates
• Foreword Timothy Graham
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1. The Vatican Terence and its model
• 2. The classical miniatures and the stage
• 3. Dramatic gestures in the miniatures
• Appendix to chapter 3: the views of Jachmann
• 4. Anglo-Saxon gestures
• Bibliography
• Index.
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This book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome. Reginald Dodwell was an eminent art historian and former Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. In this, his last book, he notes a striking similarity of both form and meaning between Anglo-Saxon gestures and those in illustrated manuscripts of the plays of Terence. He presents evidence for dating the archetype of the Terence manuscripts to the mid-third century, and argues persuasively that their gestures reflect actual stage conventions. He identifies a repertory of eighteen Terentian gestures whose meaning can be ascertained from the dramatic contexts in which they occur, and conducts a detailed examination of the use of the gestures in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The book, which is extensively illustrated, illuminates our understanding of the vigour of late Anglo-Saxon art and its ability to absorb and transpose continental influence.
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• 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 Ozyurek
• 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.
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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. Language and Gesture offers a wide range of theoretical approaches, with emphasis not simply on behavioural descriptions but also on the underlying processes. The book has strong cross-linguistic and cross-cultural components, examining gestures by speakers of Mayan, Australian, East Asian as well as English and other European languages. The content is diverse including chapters on gestures during aphasia and severe stuttering, the first emergence of speech-gesture combinations of children, and a section on sign language. In a rapidly growing field of study this volume opens up the agenda for research into a new approach to understanding language, thought and society.
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• Of miming and signing : the dramatic rhetoric of gesture / Jody Enders
• Gesture and characterization in the liturgical drama / Dunbar H. Ogden
• Offering the forbidden fruit in MS. Junius 11 / Janet Schrunk Ericksen
• Gesture in medieval British drama / Clifford Davidson
• Gestures of greeting : annunciations, sacred and secular / Barbara D. Palmer
• The body in motion in the York Adam and Eve in Eden / Natalie Crohn Schmitt
• Gesture and audience : the Passion and Duccio's Maestà / Beth A. Mulvaney
• Body language in Jeu de Robin et Marion : the Aix witness / Jesse Hurlbut.

• Nonverbal means as regulators in communication: sociocultural perspectives
• Keele žestilise päritolu hüpotees
• Žestid keskajal
• Gestures in dialogue
• Gestures and spatial relationships in Estonian
• Gestures in communication and their use for pointing and referring in space: Estonian examples
• Gestures as pre-positions in communication
• Metaphoric gestures and concomitant verbal phrases: Estonian evidence.

• 1. Why different, why the same? Explaining effects and non-effects of modality upon linguistic structure in sign and speech Richard P. Meier
• Part I. Phonological Structure in Signed Languages: 2. Modality differences in sign language phonology and morphophonemics Diane Brentari
• 3. Beads on a string? Representations of repetition in spoken and signed languages Rachel Channon
• 4. Psycholinguistic investigations of phonological structure in American Sign Language David P. Corina and Ursula C. Hildebrandt
• 5. Modality-dependent aspects of sign language production: evidence from slips of the hands and their repairs in German Sign Language Annette Hohenberger, Daniela Happ and Helen Leuninger
• 6. The role of manually coded English in language development of deaf children Samuel J. Supalla and Cecile McKee
• Part II. Gesture and Iconicity in Sign and Speech: 7. A modality-free notion of gesture and how it can help us with the morpheme vs. gesture question in sign language linguistics (or at least give us some criteria to work with) Arika Okrent
• 8. Gesture as the substrate in the process of ASL grammaticization Terry Janzen and Barbara Shaffer
• 9. A cross-linguistic examination of the lexicons of four signed languages Anne-Marie Currie, Richard P. Meier and Keith Walters
• Part III. Syntax in Sign: Few or No Effects of Modality: 10. Where are all the modality effects? Diane Lillo-Martin
• 11. Applying morphosyntactic and phonological readjustment rules in natural language negation Roland Pfau
• 12. Nominal expressions in Hong Kong Sign Language: does modality make a difference? Gladys Tang and Felix Sze
• Part IV. Using Space and Describing Space: 13. Pronominal reference in signed and spoken language: are grammatical categories modality-dependent? Susan Lloyd McBurney
• 14. Is verb agreement the same cross-modally? Christian Rathmann and Gaurav Mathur
• 15. The effects of modality on spatial language: how signers and speakers talk about space Karen Emmorey
• 16. The effects of modality on BSL development in an exceptional learner Gary Morgan, Neil Smith, Ianthi Tsimpli and Bencie Woll
• 17. Deictic points in the visual/gestural and tactile/gestural modalities David Quinto-Pozos.
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The realisation that signed languages are true languages is one of the great discoveries of linguistic research. The work of many sign language researchers has revealed deep similarities between signed and spoken languages in their structure, acquisition and processing, as well as differences, arising from the differing articulatory and perceptual constraints under which signed languages are used and learned. This book provides a cross-linguistic examination of the properties of many signed languages, including detailed case studies of Hong Kong, British, Mexican and German sign languages. The contributions to this volume, by some of the most prominent researchers in the field, focus on a single question: to what extent is linguistic structure influenced by the modality of language? Their answers offer particular insights into the factors that shape the nature of language and contribute to our understanding of why languages are organised as they are.
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Many nonverbal behaviours - smiling, blushing, shrugging - reveal our emotions. Once nonverbal behaviour, gesturing, exposes our thoughts. This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Susan Goldin-Meadow begins with an intriguing discovery: when explaining their answer to a task, children sometimes communicate different ideas with their hand gestures than with their spoken words. Moreover, children whose gestures do not match their speech are particularly likely to benefit from instruction in that task. Not only do gestures provide insight into the unspoken thoughts of children (one of Goldin-Meadow's central claims), but gestures reveal a child's readiness to learn and even suggest which teaching strategies might be most beneficial. In addition, Goldin-Meadow characterizes gesture when it fulfills the entire function of language (as in the case of Sign Languages of the Deaf), when it is reshaped to suit different cultures (American and Chinese), and even when it occurs in children who are blind from birth. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers - adults and children alike - by watching their hands, this book discloses the active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more fundamentally, in thinking. In general, we are unaware of gesture, which occurs as an undercurrent alongside an acknowledged verbal exchange. In this book, Susan Goldin-Meadow makes clear why we must not ignore the background conversation.
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Many non-verbal behaviours - smiling, blushing, shrugging - reveal our emotions. One non-verbal behaviour, gesturing, exposes our thoughts. This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so.
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• Part 1: The Problem of Language Learning. Out of the Mouths of Babes. How Do Children Learn Language? Language-Learning Across the Globe. Language-Learning by Hand. Does More or Less Input Matter?
• Part 2: Language Development without a Language Model. Background on Deafness and Language-Learning. How Do We Begin? Words. The Parts of Words. Combining Words Into Simple Sentences. Making Complex Sentences out of Simple Ones: Recursion. Building a System. Beyond the Here-And-Now: The Functions Gesture Serves. How Might Hearing Parents Foster Gesture Creation in Their Deaf Children? Gesture Creation Across the Globe.
• Part 3: The Conditions that Foster Language and Language-Learning. How Do the Resilient Properties of Language Help Children Learn Language? When Does Gesture Become Language? Is Language Innate? The Resilience of Language. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is "yes". The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn the spoken language that surrounds them. In addition, they have not yet been exposed to sign language, either by their hearing parents or their oral schools. Nevertheless, the children use their hands to communicate - they gesture - and those gestures take on many of the forms and functions of language. The properties of language that we find in the deaf children's gestures are just those properties that do not need to be handed down from generation to generation, but can be reinvented by a child de novo - the resilient properties of language. This book suggests that all children, deaf or hearing, come to language-learning ready to develop precisely these language properties. In this way, studies of gesture creation in deaf children can show us the way that children themselves have a large hand in shaping how language is learned.
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• 1. The domain of gesture
• 2. Visible action as gesture
• 3. Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century
• 4. Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt
• 5. Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return
• 6. Classifying gestures
• 7. Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech
• 8. Deployments of gesture in the utterance
• 9. Gesture and speech in semantic interaction
• 10. Gesture and referential meaning
• 11. On pointing
• 12. Gestures of the 'precision-grip': topic, comment and question markers
• 13. Two gesture families of the open hand
• 14. Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes
• 15. Gesture and sign on common ground
• 16. Gesture, culture and the communication economy
• 17. The status of gesture
• Appendix I. Transcription conventions
• Appendix II. The recordings.
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Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this long-awaited study provides a comprehensive treatment of gesture and its use in interaction, drawing on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate its varied role in the construction of utterances. Adam Kendon accompanies his analyses with an extended discussion of the history of the study of gesture - a topic not dealt with in any previous publication - as well as exploring the relationship between gesture and sign language, and how the use of gesture varies according to cultural and language differences. Set to become the definitive account of the topic, Gesture will be invaluable to all those interested in human communication. Its publication marks a major development, both in semiotics and in the emerging field of gesture studies.
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• Towards a lexicography of gestures. The structure of dictionary entries: results of empirical investigations / Massimo Serenari
• 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 / Feinhard Krüger
• Russian gestures and Russian phraseology I: Types of lexical information and the structure of lexical entries in a dictionary of Russian gestures / Grigorii E. Kreidlin
• The Italian gestionary: meaning representation, ambiguity, and context / Isabella Poggi
• Symbolic gestures and gesturing in comunication / Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti, Silvana Contento
• Notes on pragmatic and social aspects of everyday gestures / Lluís Payrató
• Problems and rocedures in the study of gestures / Peter Collett
• Towares a documentation of gesture uses. Expressive gestures used by classical orchestra conductors / Penny Boyes Bräm, Thüring Bräm
• Déixis représentative / Geneviève Calbris
• An ontogenetic universal and how to explain it / David McNeill, Karl-Erik McCullough, Susan D. Duncan
• Contrasts in gesticulation: a Neapolitan and a British speaker compared / Adam Kendon
• Body signs: Portuguese communication on three continents / Monica Rector, Salvato Trigo
• Meta-discursive gestures from Iran: some uses of the 'Pistol Hand' / Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• The conventionalization of the Ring Gesture in German discourse / Ragnhild Neumann
• Body and soul: gestures as mediators in communication / Christine Kühn
• Forms and uses of the Palm Up Open Hand: a case of a gesture family? / Cornelia Müller.

• Why gestures?
• How gestures carry meaning
• Two dimensions
• Imagery-language dialectic
• Discourse
• Children and whorf
• Neurogesture
• The thought-language-hand link and language origins.

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 in "Gesture and Thought" with an unlikely accomplice - Tweety Bird. McNeill argues that gestures are active participants in both speaking and thinking. He posits that gestures are key ingredients in an "imagery-language dialectic" that fuels speech and thought; gestures are the "imagery" and also the components of "language, " rather than mere consequences. The smallest unit of this dialectic is the "growth point, " a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Enter Tweety Bird. In "Gesture and Thought", the central growth point comes from a cartoon. In his quest to eat Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat first scales the outside of a rain gutter to reach his prey. Unsuccessful, he makes a second attempt by climbing up the inside of the gutter. Tweety, however, drops a bowling ball down the gutter; Sylvester swallows the ball. Over the course of twenty-five years, McNeill showed this cartoon to numerous subjects who spoke a variety of languages. A fascinating pattern emerged. Those who remembered the exact sequence of the cartoon while retelling it all used the same gesture to describe Sylvester's position inside the gutter. Those who forgot, in the retelling, that Sylvester had first climbed the outside of the gutter did not use this gesture at all. Thus that gesture becomes part of the "growth point" - the building block of language and thought. An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of how we communicate and its connection to thought, "Gesture and Thought" is a work of such consequence that it will influence all subsequent linguistic and evolutionary theory on the subject.
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• Table of Contents Translators' preface by David Bradby Editor's introduction by David Bradby
• 1. Imitation: from mimicry to miming by Jacques Lecoq
• 2. The Gestures of Life by Jacques Lecoq
• 3. From Pantomime to Modern Mime by Jacques Lecoq
• 4. Has Mime become separated from Theatre? by Jean Perret
• 5. Mime, the art of movement by Jacques Lecoq
• 6. The Explosion of Mime by Jean Perret and Jacques Lecoq
• 7. The Theatre of Gesture and image.
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Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Aetienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautre celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.
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• 1. I. Introduction
• 2. 1 Introduction: The Dynamic Dimension of Language (by Levy, Elena T.)
• 3. 2 On the Origins of Modern Gesture Studies (by Kendon, Adam)
• 4. II. Language and Cognition
• 5. 3 Gesture with Speech and Without it (by Goldin-Meadow, Susan)
• 6. 4 From Gestures to Signs in the Acquisition of Sign Language (by Hoiting, Nini)
• 7. 5 How does Spoken Language Shape Iconic Gestures? (by Kita, Sotaro)
• 8. 6 Forgetful or Strategic? The Mystery of the Systematic Avoidance of Reference in the Cartoon Story Narrative (by Furuyama, Nobuhiro)
• 9. 7 Metagesture: An Analysis of Theoretical Discourse about Multimodal Language (by Parrill, Fey)
• 10. 8 Potential Cognitive Universals: Evidence from Head Movements in Turkana (by McClave, Evelyn)
• 11. 9 Blending in Deception: Tracing Output Back to its Source (by Franklin, Amy)
• 12. 10 A Dynamic View of Metaphor, Gesture and Thought (by Muller, Cornelia)
• 13. 11 Second Language Acquisition from a McNeillian Perspective (by Stam, Gale)
• 14. III. Environmental Context and Sociality
• 15. 12 Face-to-face Dialogue as a Micro-social Context: The Example of Motor Mimicry (by Bavelas, Janet)
• 16. 13 Master Speakers, Master Gesturers: A String Quarter Master Class (by Haviland, John B.)
• 17. 14 Constructing Spatial Conceptualizations from Limited Input: Evidence from Norwegian Sign Language (by Liddell, Scott K.)
• 18. 15 Environmentally Coupled Gestures (by Goodwin, Charles)
• 19. 16 Indexing Locations in Gesture: Recalled Stimulus Image and Interspeaker Coordination as Factors Influencing Gesture Form (by Kimbara, Irene)
• 20. 17 The Role of Iconic Gesture in Semantic Communication and its Theoretical and Practical Implications (by Beattie, Geoffrey)
• 21. 18 Intersubjectivity in Gestures: The Speaker's Perspective toward the Addressee (by Ishino, Mika)
• 22. 19 An Integrated Approach to the Study of Convention, Conflict, and Compliance in Interaction (by Duncan, Starkey)
• 23. IV. Atypical Minds and Bodies
• 24. 20 Discourse Focus, Gesture, and Disfluent Aphasia (by Duncan, Susan D.)
• 25. 21 The Construction of a Temporally Coherent Narrative by an Autistic Adolescent: Co-contributions of Speech, Enactment and Gesture (by Levy, Elena T.)
• 26. 22 The Body in Communication: Lessons from the Near-Human (by Cassell, Justine)
• 27. Index.
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Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural discourse and by his theory of the human capacity for language. The introductory chapter by Adam Kendon contextualizes McNeill's research paradigm within a history of earlier gesture studies. Chapters in the first section, Language and Cognition, emphasize what McNeill refers to as the intrapersonal plane. Many of the chapters adduce evidence for McNeill's claim that gestures can serve as a window onto the speaker's mind. Chapters in the second section, Environmental Context and Sociality, emphasize the interpersonal plane and exemplify McNeill's focus on how moment-to-moment language use is determined by contextual factors. The final section of the volume, Atypical Minds and Bodies, concerns lessons to be learned from studies of aphasic patients, autistic children, and artificial humans.
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• Iconicity and arbitrariness in French Sign Language / Christian Cuxac and Marie-Anne Sallandre
• Diagrammatic and imagic hypoicons in signed and verbal languages / Paola Pietrandrea and Tommaso Russo
• Sign language phonology / Diane Brentari
• Linguistic units in signed and verbal languages / Claire Blanche-Benveniste
• Routes from gestures to language / Sherman Wilcox
• Interfaces / Annarita Puglielli and Mara Frascarelli
• The expression of grammatical categories in signed languages / Terry Janzen
• Constructions and categories in verbal and signed languages / Raffaele Simone
• Constructs of the mind / Phyllis Perrin Wilcox
• Deixis, anaphora, and person reference in signed languages / Elena Pizzuto
• The deep relation between deixis and anaphora / Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri.

This book is the first to explore how much of knowledge based on research on spoken languages needs to be refined in the light of the growing field of sign linguistics. Drawing upon a broad cross-linguistic perspective, the contributors focus on topics of general theoretical interest: linearity and arbitrariness principles, definition of units and levels of analysis, expression of grammatical categories, semantic relations, and cohesion mechanisms. The book is of interest to language typologists, theoretical and descriptive linguists, scholars in the fields of semiotics, anthropology, gesture studies, and cognitive sciences at large.
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"The Factory of Gestures investigates the metamorphoses of the body language in Russian and Soviet society through the 20th century as evidenced by documentary and fiction films, private and professional photography, visual arts, and theatre."--cover.

• Contents Preface List of Contributors Part I: Gesture and its L2 Applications 1. GESTURE STUDIES AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A REVIEW Gale Stam and Steven G. McCafferty 2. Nonverbal communication and second language classrooms: A review Carla Chamberlin Quinlisk Part II: Gesture and Meaning Making in the L2 3. MATERIAL FOUNDATIONS FOR SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: GESTURE, METAPHOR, AND INTERNALIZATION Steven G. McCafferty 4. EMBODIMENT AS SELF-REGULATION IN L2 TASK PERFORMANCE Elizabeth Platt and Frank B. Brooks 5. THE DIALECTICS OF GESTURE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING IN SECOND LANGUAGE ORAL NARRATIVES Eduardo Negueruela and James P. Lantolf Part III: Gesture and Communication in the L2 6. Gesturally enhanced repeats in the repair turn: Communication strategy or cognitive language-learning tool? David Olsher 7. Does gesture aid discourse comprehension in THE L2? Tsuyoshi Kida 8. Language Learner and Native Speaker Perceptions of Japanese Refusal Gestures Portrayed in Video Nicholas O. Jungheim Part IV: Gesture and Linguistic Structure in the L2 9. A helping hand? Gestures, L2 learners, and grammar Marianne Gullberg 10 . Linguistic and gestural introduction of Ground reference in L1 and L2 narrative Keiko Yoshioka 11. What Gestures Reveal About Second Language Acquisition Gale Stam Part V: Gesture and the L2 Classroom 12. 'BECAUSE OF HER GESTURE, IT'S VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND'
• LEARNERS' PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS' GESTURES IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS Daniela Sime 13. GESTURE AND THE NEGOTIATION OF MEANING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM Martine Faraco and Tsuyoshi Kida 14. Expository Discourse IN A SECOND LANGUAGTE CLASSROOM: HOW Learners Use Gesture Alexis Tabensky.
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This book demonstrates the vital connection between language and gesture, and why it is critical for research on second language acquisition to take into account the full spectrum of communicative phenomena. The study of gesture in applied linguistics is just beginning to come of age. This edited volume, the first of its kind, covers a broad range of concerns that are central to the field of SLA. The chapters focus on a variety of second-language contexts, including adult classroom and naturalistic learners, and represent learners from a variety of language and cultural backgrounds." Gesture: Second Language Acquisition and Classroom Research" is organized in five sections: Part I, Gesture and its L2 Applications, provides both an overview of gesture studies and a review of the L2 gesture research; Part II, Gesture and Making Meaning in the L2, offers three studies that all take an explicitly sociocultural view of the role of gesture in SLA; Part III, Gesture and Communication in the L2, focuses on the use and comprehension of gesture as an aspect of communication; Part IV, Gesture and Linguistic Structure in the L2, addresses the relationship between gesture and the acquisition of linguistic features, and how gesture relates to proficiency; and, Part V, Gesture and the L2 Classroom, considers teachers' gestures, students' gestures, and how students' interpret teachers' gestures.Although there is a large body of research on gesture across a number of disciplines including anthropology, communications, psychology, sociology, and child development, to date there has been comparatively little investigation of gesture within applied linguistics. This volume provides readers unfamiliar with L2 gesture studies with a powerful new lens with which to view many aspects of language in use, language learning, and language teaching.
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• The inscription of gesture: inward migrations in dance / Sally Ann Ness
• Physical graffiti west: African American gang walks and semiotic practice / Susan A. Phillips
• Gesture and abstraction / Blake Stimson
• Remembering kinesthesia / Deidre Sklar
• Digesture: gesture and inscription in experimental cinema / Akira Mizuta Lippit
• Miming signing: Henri Michaux and the writing body / Carrie Noland
• Ghosting: the performance and migration of cinematic gesture, focusing on Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Good men, good women / Lesley Stern
• The gestures of Bharata Natyam: migratig into diasporic contemporary Indian dance / Ketu H. Katrak
• Mimique / Mark Franko.

• 1. Acknowledgments
• 2. 1. Manufactured understanding
• 3. 2. Gesture as interaction: On methodology
• 4. 3. Hands
• 5. 4. Gathering meaning
• 6. 5. The turn to the hands
• 7. 6. Depicting
• 8. 7. Thinking by hand
• 9. 8. Speech-handling
• 10. 9. A sustainable art
• 11. Appendix
• 12. Bibliography
• 13. Person index
• 14. Subject index
• 15. Video clips.
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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.
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• 1. Acknowledgment
• 2. 1. Introduction
• 3. 2. A presentation of the field
• 4. 3. Methodological issues
• 5. 4. The beten word system
• 6. 5. The medina-adama word system
• 7. 6. The Shoa-Nakba word system
• 8. 7. Conclusions
• 9. Bibliography
• 10. Appendix
• 11. Name index
• 12. Subject index.
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• 1. Acknowledgment, pxi
• 2. 1. Introduction, p1-6
• 3. 2. A presentation of the field, p7-28
• 4. 3. Methodological issues, p29-44
• 5. 4. The beten word system, p45-88
• 6. 5. The medina-adama word system, p89-132
• 7. 6. The Shoa-Nakba word system, p133-168
• 8. 7. Conclusions, p169-178
• 9. Bibliography, p179-186
• 10. Appendix, p187-188
• 11. Name index, p189
• 12. Subject index, p191.
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This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The resultant mapping is applied to cases of gesture-word mismatches that are evident in conflict situations. The current study adopts the word systems approach, a sign-based theory that is naturally designed for the analysis of linguistic signs, and extends it to non-linguistic units, borrowing analytical tools from the field of dance movement therapy. The variety of interdisciplinary metaphorical and literal interpretations of the analyzed signs enriches the theoretical framework and facilitates examination of the instances of mismatches. Hence, this study makes a meaningful contribution to the understanding of linguistic/non-linguistic mismatches in situations of conflict. Further, it makes more general claims: the semiotic system underlying this study paves the way for further research of correlations (or lack thereof) between a range of phenomena cutting across sociology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and political science.
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• 1. Embodied interaction in the material world: an introduction Jurgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron
• Part I. Founding Capacities: 2. Collaborative construction of multimodal utterances Edwin Hutchins and Saeko Nomura
• 3. Formal structures of practical tasks: a resource for action in the social life of very young children Gene H. Lerner, Don H. Zimmerman and Mardi Kidwell
• 4. Elements of formulation N. J. Enfield
• 5. The changing meanings of things: found objects and inscriptions in social interaction Jurgen Streeck
• 6. Choreographies of attention: multimodality in a routine family activity Eve Tulbert and Marjorie Harness Goodwin
• 7. Some functions of speaker head nods Hiromi Aoki
• 8. The multimodal mechanics of collaborative unit construction in Japanese conversation Shimako Iwasaki
• Part II. Transformational Ecologies: 9. Creating contexts for actions: multimodal practices for managing children's conduct in the childcare classroom Siri Mehus
• 10. Multilingual multimodality: communicative difficulties and their solutions in second language use Marianne Gullberg
• 11. On the use of graphic resources in interaction by people with communication disorders Ray Wilkinson, Steven Bloch and Michael Clarke
• 12. Terra incognita: social interaction among blind children Sharon Avital and Jurgen Streeck
• 13. Contextures of action Charles Goodwin
• 14. 'A full inspiration tray': multimodality across real and virtual spaces Elizabeth Keating and Chiho Sunakawa
• Part III. Professional Communities: 15. The organization of concurrent courses of action in surgical demonstrations Lorenza Mondada
• 16. Pursuing a response: prodding recognition and expertise within a surgical team Alan Zemel, Timothy Koschmann and Curtis LeBaron
• 17. Building stories: the embodied narration of what might come to pass Keith M. Murphy
• 18. Embodied arguments: verbal claims and bodily evidence Julien C. Mirivel
• 19. Facilitating tool use in the photography studio through language, gesture, and the act of comparison Scott Phillabaum
• 20. Gesture and institutional interaction Christian Heath and Paul Luff
• 21. Musical spaces John B. Haviland.
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How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources (such as gaze and gesture) to bring about coherent and intelligible courses of action? How are physical settings, artifacts, technologies and non-linguistic sign-systems implicated in social interaction and shared cognition? This volume brings together advanced work by leading international scholars who share video-based research methods that integrate semiotic, linguistic, sociological, anthropological and cognitive science perspectives with detailed, microanalytic observations. Collectively they provide a coherent framework for analyzing the production of meaning and the organization of social interaction in the complex and heterogeneous settings that are characteristic of modern life. Embodied Interaction is indispensable for anyone interested in the study of language and social interaction. This volume will be a point of reference for future research on multimodality in human communication and action.
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• 1. Acknowledgements
• 2. About the contributors
• 3. Introduction: Developments in primate gesture research (by Pika, Simone)
• 4. Article
• 5. Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language (by Hooff, Jan A.R.A.M. van)
• 6. Research Studies
• 7. Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants? (by Marentette, Paula)
• 8. Non-human primates
• 9. A mother gorilla's variable use of touch to guide her infant: Insights into iconicity and the relationship between gesture and action (by Perlman, Marcus)
• 10. Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans: A case for strategy? (by Tempelmann, Sebastian)
• 11. Handedness for manual gestures in great apes: A meta-analysis (by Hopkins, William D.)
• 12. Mandrill visual gestures: A round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys (by Laidre, Mark E.)
• 13. Gesture use in consortship: Wild chimpanzees' use of gesture for an 'evolutionarily urgent' purpose (by Hobaiter, Catherine)
• 14. New trends and debates
• 15. A call for conformity: Gesture studies in human and non-human primates (by Scott, Nicole M.)
• 16. Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing (by Racine, Timothy P.)
• 17. Pointing: Contexts and instrumentality (by Leavens, David A.)
• 18. Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing: A new look on chimpanzee signalling (by Wilkinson, Ray)
• 19. Article
• 20. Hands and faces: Linking human language and non-human primate communication (by Wilcox, Sherman)
• 21. Where next? (by Liebal, Katja)
• 22. Index.
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The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on "Current developments in non-human primate gesture research", which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The motivation for this book - following on from the motivation for the workshop series - was to present the state of the art in non-human primate gesture research with a special emphasis on its history, interdisciplinary perspectives, developments and future directions. This book provides, for the first time in a single volume, the most recent work on comparative gestural signaling by many of the major scholars in the field, such as W.D. Hopkins, D. Leavens, T. Racine, J. van Hooff, and S. Wilcox (in alphabetical order).
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The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and - by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language - on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualization and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain.
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• La finitude du geste
• L'art du geste
• Techniques et médiations
• L'émergence des gestes technologiques
• L'intelligence du geste robotique
• Design gestuel: la touche picturale fonctionnalisée hors l'image
• Les deux mains un médium ?
• Êthos et Aisthèsis
• Gestes, surprises, ambiguïtés
• Survivance de l'auto-présentation des formes vivantes dans l'art paléolithique
• Contre les apparences du geste, un geste de plancton
• Les animaux gèrent les apparences
• Une colère de peintre
• Le geste dans les arts
• Geste, touche, style. Réflexions sur le geste en peinture
• Fresh Acconci : Vito Acconsi aux mains de Mike Kelley et de Paul McCarthy
• Le sujet de la peinture
• À tâtons, regarder la nuit. Étude de gestes dans deux Rondes de nuit
• Percer le corps, déchirer le plan. Le geste d'ouvrir dans le cinéma de genre.

"Le geste est étudié dans cet ouvrage sous les angles de la philosophie, de l'anthropologie, de la technologie, de l'esthétique et de l'art. Ce sont en effet toujours des gestes qui, embrayant des actions et des échanges, déterminent des pans entiers de l'expérience humaine. L'ouvrage se compose de trois parties. L'art du geste: techniques et médiations traite du geste technique et de ses prolongements technologiques. L'émergence est ici d'une intelligence formelle aux effets cumulatifs inappréciables. Ethos et Aisthèsis s'interroge, en s'aidant notamment des oeuvres d'Adolf Portmann, sur la manière dont les vivants gèrent l'apparence et en jouent. Enfin, Le geste dans les arts s'attache, sur l'exemple d'oeuvres singulières, à comprendre, non seulement comment les artistes peuvent partir de gestes simples, mais aussi comment ils rendent un geste ou une gestualité plus large dans et par leur médium. De façon générale apparaît une Figure du geste dont le schème pourrait être le retour. On s'explique ainsi que le geste soit tantôt regardé comme pur incipit, tantôt comme habitus, capacité de porter et de gérer dans le temps un certain tour. A la fois improvisé et très exercé, le geste apparaît comme un carrefour anthropologique où se croisent les destins du langage, de la technique, de l'économie, de l'art..."--P. [4] of cover.

• Introduction: Body Talks, Non-verbal communication in some African Societies and Institutions Augustine Agwuele Part One: Body Talk in Arts and Literature 1. What Traditional Dances Tell Us about African Cultural Identity in Puerto Rico and Trinidad" Ann Albuyeh, University of Puerto Rico 2. Fela's Clenched Fists: The Double Black Power Salute and Political Ideology from Afrobeat to Occupy Nigeria" Dotun Oyebade, University of Texas (PhD candidate) 3. Dressed-to-Kill: Don Mattera's Sophiatown Michael Sharp, University of Puerto Rico 4. Body Arts, Body Decoration, and Identity in Yorubaland Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi, Missouri State University 5. Bodies in Motion: Gestures and Performance of Identity in Tess Onwueme's Shakara Dance Hall Queen Maureen N. Eke, Central Michigan University
• Part 2: Non-Verbal communication and Cultural Diversity 6. The convergence of language and culture in Malawian gestures: Handedness in Everyday Rituals Karen W. Sanders, Tulane University 7. Nonverbal communication codes among the Hamar: structures and functions Moges Yigezu, Addis Ababa University 8. So That We Might Find Ourselves: Refashioning Embodied Beauty and Collective Identity in Yoruba Culture Abimbola A. Adelakun, Independent scholar 9. Nonverbal Message: Yoruba view of 'deviant' male hairstyles Augustine Agwuele 10. "Embodying Holiness: Gender, Sex and Bodies in a Neo-Pentecostal Church in Kenya" Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Egerton University.
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The body is a site bearing multiple signs of cultural inscriptions. People's postures, use of space, dress codes, speech particularities, facial expressions, tone qualities, gaze, and gestures are codes that send messages to observers. These messages differ across cultures and times. Some of these non-verbal messages are taken to be conscious or subconscious projection of a sense of personal or collective identity. The various forms of "body talk" may flag personal distinction, style, uniqueness or politics, in which case, the body and its presentations become stances of the self. Different from this, body talk may exhibit a society's or culture's standardized norms of valuation with respect to what conforms or deviates from expectations.The subject of this anthology is non-verbal communication signals with contributing studies from societies and cultures of Africa and African Diaspora. The goals are to document popular gestures, explore their meanings, and understand how they frame interactions and colour perception.The anthology is also aimed at offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the problematics of non-verbal communication by making sense of the various ways that different cultures speak without "voice", and to examine how people and groups make their presence felt as social, cultural and political actors. Some of the contributions include case studies, descriptive codification, theoretical analyses and performative studies. The issues highlighted range from film and literature studies, gender studies, history, religion, popular cultural, and extends to the virtual space. Other studies provide a linguistic treatment of non-verbal communication and use it as means of explicating perception and stereotyping.
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• 1. Introduction2. Emic and Etic Perspective on face3. An Interactional Pragmatics Approach to Investigate Face Practices4. Emic Concepts of Face5. Emic Practices of Face: Dyadic Business Interaction vs. Multiparty
• 6. Demystifying the Face in Chinese: Emerging Themes in Business
• interactions7. Conclusion.
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This book addresses the knowledge-gap in the field by focusing on the importance of emic conceptualizations (face1) in theorizing face. Existing research on face has tended to rely on the etic perspective (face2) in theorizing and conceptualizing face. Face and Face Practices in Chinese Talk-in-Interaction applies an interactional pragmatics approach drawing on folk notions and discourse instead of simply describing Chinese in a normative, and thus potentially stereotypical manner. It builds on an analysis of original face-to-face interactional data and employs a combination of methodological approaches to analyze face in business settings. It is the very first study to examine face and face practices in Chinese employing Face Constituting Theory (FCT) as the theoretical framework. In doing so it provides empirical support for the importance of examining the cognitive and the interactional aspects of face practices, as well as providing insightful perspectives on the complex interactional moves that participants employ in managing their interpersonal relationships within business interactions and mediations.In this way, the book addresses key current debates on how face should be conceptualized and theorized. It also demystifies Chinese communication and thereby illuminates some unidentified face practices, both culture-general and cultural-specific.
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