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• Austin and elocution in context
• Austin's scientific publications in context
• Chironomia revisited
• Portraying movement in Chironomia
• Teaching social, professional, and gender ethos
• Beyond Chironomia : movement as actio

This first book-length study of Irish educator, clergyman, and author Gilbert Austin as an elocutionary rhetor investigates how his work informs contemporary scholarship on delivery, rhetorical history and theory, and embodied communication. Authors Sara Newman and Sigrid Streit study Austin's theoretical system, outlined in his 1806 book Chironomia; or A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery-an innovative study of gestures as a viable, independent language-and consider how Austin's efforts to incorporate movement and integrate texts and images intersect with present-day interdisciplinary studies of embodiment. Austin did not simply categorize gesture mechanically, separating delivery from rhetoric and the discipline's overall goals, but instead he provided a theoretical framework of written descriptions and illustrations that positions delivery as central to effective rhetoric and civic interactions. Balancing the variable physical elements of human interactions as well as the demands of communication, Austin's system fortuitously anticipated contemporary inquiries into embodied and nonverbal communication. Enlightenment rhetoricians, scientists, and physicians relied on sympathy and its attendant vivacious and lively ideas to convey feelings and facts to their varied audiences. During the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries, as these disciplines formed increasingly distinct, specialized boundaries, they repurposed existing, shared communication conventions to new ends. While the emerging standards necessarily diverged, each was grounded in the subjective, embodied bedrock of the sympathetic, magical tradition. .
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• Part 1: Introduction 1. Inherent Benefits 2. An Abridged, Concise, (Perhaps Quirky) History On Gestures 3. Gesture-Sign Language Connections 4. Gesture and Pantomime in Theatre 5. Nonverbal Applications 6. Some Iconic Gestures in Culture, Film, and TV 7. Self-Awareness Part 2: Warm-ups, Icebreakers, & Exercises 1. Physical Warm-Ups and Icebreakers 2. Facial Expression Exercises 3. Visual Exercises 4. Visual-Gestural Exercises Part 3: Visual-Gestural Communication Assignments 1. Your Gestural Introduction 2. Personal Coat of Arms 3. Universal Gestures 4. International Sign 5. Random Universal Phrases/Questions 6. Weekend Highlight in Universal Gestures 7. Cirque du Soleil: Nouvelle Experience 8. Body Language 9. Some Basic Hand Orientations for Two-Dimensional (2D) Gestures 10. Developing a Pantomime With Two-Dimensional (2D) Gestures 11. Abstract Two-Dimensional (2D) Gestures 12. Practice With Basic Three-Dimensional (3D) Hand Shapes: Objects 13. Creating Three-Dimensional (3D) Objects 14. Continued Practice With Three-Dimensional (3D) Hand Shapes: Buildings and Structures 15. Arrangement of Related Objects 16. Repeating Patterns 17. Angles & Perspectives 18. Environmental Gestures 19. Cooking Up a Storm 20. Character Description 21. Character Icons 22. Animal Character Description 23. Vehicle Gestures 24. Visual Vernacular
• an Aspect Using Body Movement Designators Part 4: Projects 1. Playwriting, and Performing With Gestures and Movement 2. Gestures in the Work World 3. Creating an Original, Visual, Nonverbal, Comical Script a la Mr. Bean 4. Assessing Your Facial Expressions 5. Facial Storytelling 6. Visual Nonverbal Comical Script a la Mr. Bean 7. Performance Reaction Paper 8. Visual-Gestural Translation of a Haiku 9. Re-enacting Little Miss Muffet in Gestures & Movement 10. Two Crows Project 11. Visual Theatre Project 12. Research Project 13. Final Project Part 5: Bibliography.
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Visual-Gestural Communication is a truly unique volume in non-language communication devoted to the study of universal gestures, facial expressions, body language, and pantomime. Readers develop the skill and confidence to interact -- sans shared language -- with individuals, such as someone who is deaf or hard of hearing, or who speaks a foreign language. The text and accompanying online resources feature a wealth of icebreakers, sequenced yet modular activities and assignments, as well as resources, student exercises, and teacher-guided tasks that explore aspects and amalgamations of nonverbal communication, theatre, and sign language. It is a tremendous resource for students of visual-gestural communication, sign language interpretation, American Sign Language (and other foreign sign languages), nonverbal communication, theatre, and performance studies, as well as community educators in deaf awareness and advocacy. In addition to the text's vital use in the theatrical arena, it is also applicable to teachers who wish to help their students maximize the use of their facial expressions, gestures, and body language as a prerequisite to learning ASL. .
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• On the beauty of gestures
• The Head
• The Temples
• The Ear
• The Forehead
• The Eyebrows and Eyelashes
• The Eye
• The Nose
• The Mouth
• The Lips
• The Tongue
• The Teeth
• The Cheeks
• The Chin
• The Neck
• The Shoulders
• The Armpits
• The Arms
• The Forearm
• The Elbow
• The Wrist
• The Fingernails
• The Hand
• The Fist
• Both Hands
• Hand to Hand
• The Thumb
• The Index Finger
• The Middle Finger
• The Ring Finger
• The Little Finger (The Pinky)
• The Torso
• The Chest
• The Hips
• The Waist and the Stomach
• The Buttocks
• The Groin, the Genitals, the Thighs
• The Knees, the Legs
• The Foot.

An illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels. Gestures convey meaning with a flourish. A vigorous nod of the head, a bold jut of the chin, an enthusiastic thumbs-up: all speak louder than words. Yet the same gesture may have different meanings in different parts of the world. What Americans understand as the "A-OK gesture, " for example, is an obscene insult in the Arab world. This volume is the reference book we didn't know we needed-an illustrated dictionary of 850 gestures and their meanings around the world. It catalogs voluntary gestures made to communicate openly-as distinct from sign language, dance moves, involuntary "tells, " or secret handshakes-and explains what the gesture conveys in a variety of locations. It is organized by body part, from top to bottom, from head (nodding, shaking, turning) to foot (scraping, kicking, playing footsie). We learn that "to oscillate the head while gently throwing it back" communicates approval in some countries even though it resembles the headshake of disapproval used in other countries; that "to tap a slightly inflated cheek" constitutes an erotic invitation when accompanied by a wink; that the middle finger pointed in the air signifies approval in South America. We may already know that it is a grave insult in the Middle East and Asia to display the sole of one's shoe, but perhaps not that motorcyclists sometimes greet each other by raising a foot. Illustrated with clever line drawings and documented with quotations from literature (the author, Francois Caradec, was a distinguished and prolific historian of literature, culture, and humorous oddities, as well as a novelist and poet), this dictionary offers readers unique lessons in polylingual meaning.
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• La question sans réponse du geste
• Le geste du geste
• La belle époque ou le triomphe du geste
• Spectacles du corps
• Au commencement était Deburau
• Colette et Georges Wague
• De quelques gestes circassiens
• Les Hanlon Lees
• Footit et Chocolat
• Café-concert et Music-Hall
• "Les gestes de la chanson"
• La carrière d'un "Pétomane-musicien fin de siècle"
• Les femmes légères (1)
• La vie légère de Mauricia de Thiers, Femme-Bilboquet
• Polaire, la gommeuse épileptique
• La Belle Otero
• Les femmes légères (2)
• Isadora Duncan
• Loïc Fuller
• D'un exotisme l'autre
• La Goulue
• Le geste du cancan
• Erotique du geste
• Érotisme du trapèze
• "La conjonction Jupien-Charlus"
• Strip-tease
• "Une gousse par trop voyante."
• Colette et Missy
• Observation de quelques gestes lesbiens dans À la Recherche du temps perdu
• "... ou une tapette ostentatoire"
• Le geste de Proust
• Le geste de Montesquiou
• Le geste de Jean Lorrain
• Le geste d'Édouard de Max
• Prostitution
• La traite des blanches
• "La Traite des Blancs"
• Le bordel de Proust
• Le théâtre comme art du geste
• Le geste de l'acteur
• Frégolisme
• Le corps glorieux de Sarah Bernhardt
• Du geste idéal d'un autre corps (la surmarionnette d'Edward Gordon Craig)
• Le geste du metteur en scène
• Victorien Sardou
• Edmond Rostand
• Et, quant aux "inventeurs"... (Le geste de Jacques Copeau)
• Saisir le geste
• Images de gestes, gestes d'images
• Rodin
• Rodin et la représentation de ce qui bouge
• Rodin fait bouger la sculpture
• Rodin met en scène ses sculptures
• Cézanne
• Le geste illustré (journaux, affiches, livres d'images)
• La science du geste
• Un livre consacré au "Geste"
• Théâtre et spiritisme, danse et hypnose
• Le geste désincarné
• Marcel Proust et le théâtrophone
• Étienne-Jules Marey et la chronophotographie.

"Y a-t-il des gestes propres à une époque de l'Histoire ? Et qui en seraient comme la signature ? Cet essai s'intéresse à des actions corporelles dont le caractère spectaculaire se manifeste aussi bien dans les arts de la scène qu'au détour de la vie ordinaire. Il propose ainsi une autre histoire de la période 1870-1914. Trop souvent occultée par le discours iconoclaste et moralisateur des avant-gardes, la prodigieuse inventivité des promoteurs du geste spectaculaire retrouve ainsi une place légitime dans un paysage dont la beauté consiste aussi dans sa variété. Les Hanlon-Lees, Footit et Chocolat, la "Femme-Bilboquet", le pétomane Pujol, sans oublier, de Fregoli à Sarah Bernhardt, les grands acteurs : autant d'artistes du geste dont ce livre analyse le génie. Il fait également la part belle à la physique du désir, aux mimes de l'érotisme et de la prostitution, notamment masculine. Car, s'il est vrai que ce sont les comportements marginaux ou déviants qui nous renseignent le mieux sur le fonctionnement général et l'éthique de la société, il n'est pas impertinent de demander à des gestes singuliers et parfois clandestins la définition stylistique de l'époque où ils se produisent. Loin de s'être évaporé, le geste 1900, fût-il évanescent ou inavouable, nous aide à définir l'esthétique de la Belle Époque."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. The impulse to gesture: spontaneous but constrained
• 2. The grammar-gesture nexus: a mechanism for regularity in gesture
• 3. Sync points in speech: evidence of grammatical affiliation for gesture
• 4. Gesture as construal: blockage, force, and distance in space and mind
• 5. Gesture sequences: wrist as hinge for shifts in discourse
• 6. Patterns of gesturing: the business of 'horizontal palming'
• 7. Wiping away: embodied interaction in speech and sign
• 8. Impulse theory: how, when, and why we gesture.
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Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues that linguistic concepts are fundamentally multi modal and shows how they lead to recurrent bindings between grammar and gesture when people speak. Studying how speakers express negation multi modally in a range of social and professional contexts, Harrison explores how and when people gesture, what people achieve linguistically and discursively with their gestures, and why we find similar uses of gesture in different languages (including spoken and signed language). Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book is an important reference for any researcher interested in the relation between language, gesture, and cognition.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Emptying of Gesture: Neurology and the British Romantic Stage
• Chapter 2: From Gestures to Nerves: Woyzeck and the Barbel Fish
• Chapter 3: The Nervous System: Melodrama, Railway Trauma, and Systemic Risk
• Chapter 4: The Inner Drama of the Body: Wagner's Neural Aesthetics
• Chapter 5: Theatre's Revenge: Charcot and the Grand Guignol
• Chapter 6: The Prison-house of Nerves: Zola and Strindberg Conclusion.
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Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced extraordinary discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond the scientific community. Over the course of the century, scientists began to conceive of the subject not principally as soul, mind, or even brain, but instead as a complex of organically interacting mechanisms, many of them operating more or less autonomously and unconsciously. Meanwhile, theatrical works of the time by Shelley, Wagner, Dickens, Buchner, Zola, and Strindberg, sought to play directly on the nerves of the spectators through non-representational means, comprising a coherent genre Matthew Wilson Smith has dubbed the "theaters of sensation." The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system, arguing that to a significant degree, modern theater emerged out of the interaction between these two apparently disparate fields. In six chapters, The Nervous Stage makes three fundamental contributions to scholarship on comparative literature, specifically in the areas of drama/performance, cognitive literary studies, and the beginnings of global modernism. Through a series of revisionist readings of specific theatrical works and artists, Smith demonstrates that a number of literary texts were deeply engaged in dialogue with the neurological sciences of their period, and that an appreciation of this dialogue helps us better to understand their significance for their own historical period as well as for our own. Furthermore, it argues that a number of lesser-known works-ranging from certain "closet dramas" such as Shelley's The Cenci to popular melodramas such as Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight-had much greater cultural significance than has been acknowledged heretofore.
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"Research on nonmanual elements or nonmanuals in sign languages has focused on both the possible functions and the occurrence (frequency and form) of these elements in recent years. As a matter of fact, research on nonmanuals is still a quite uncharted territory in Austrian Sign Language (OGS) today, which has also initiated the study given. In order to identify head and body movements in OGS, these nonmanuals were determined and analyzed functionally via a new user-oriented methodology. Getting feedback of multiple native signers was a main part of this method. Accordingly, you will find the findings of this study in this volume: various functions such as negation, assertion, interrogativity, conditionality, and many more can be expressed nonmanually. Brand new insights into sign language research are given, as well as astonishing results: even (epistemic) modality can be expressed by particular head and body movements"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book describes various linguistic functions that are primarily coded by head and body movements in Austrian Sign Language. It explores the high degree of systematic coding of nonmanuals in and offers an overview of functions that may also be coded by nonmanuals in other sign languages"-- Provided by publisher.

• SECTION I: Introduction
• SECTION II: Codes 1. Gesture 2. Posture 3. Facial Expression 4. Eye Behavior 5. Space and Touch 6. Prosody
• SECTION III: Activities 1. Communicative Techniques 2. Affective Techniques 3. Cognitive Techniques.
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This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners of any language to capitalize on the nonverbal means at their disposal. It does not shy away from the challenges that nonverbal communication poses in target language communication, including issues of personal and cultural identity that emerge with languages around the world. With its easy-to-use format, solid research support, and fully integrated activities and videos, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in working with the nonverbal dimensions of communication. The text will be especially valuable for language educators, pre- and in-service teachers who are looking for classroom resources and ideas, who want to create positive classroom environments and want to improve learner interaction and communication while increasing language proficiency. This book is a valuable resource for anyone who interacts with other people in more than one language.
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• A la surface du monde
• Ça fait comme parler
• Mes gestes
• L'appel des gestes
• Influence du geste
• Captation des gestes
• Nouveaux gestes
• Gestes du corps
• Gestes des mains
• Applaudir
• Tendresse de la gifle, gifle terroriste
• Gestes avec le téléphone
• Gestes avec la cigarette
• Gestes avec la bouche
• Gestes avec la langue
• Embrasser
• Sourire
• Gestes avec les cheveux
• Gestes avec le front
• Gestes des yeux
• Gestes des paupières
• Gestes avec les lunettes
• Gestes avec le nez
• Geste du pénis
• Gestes des pieds
• Marche et démarche
• Courir
• S'asseoir
• Gestes et "naturel"
• Gestes des femmes, gestes des couples
• Gestes des bébés
• Gestes des enfants
• Gestes coquets des hommes
• Gestes "efféminés"
• Gestes des sourds, gestes des aveugles
• Gestes illégitimes
• Gestes des acteurs de cinéma et de séries télévisées
• Gestes de Fellini
• Gestes des comédiens de théâtre
• Gestes des clowns
• Gestes des chanteurs
• Gestes des chefs d'orchestre
• Gestes esthétisés de l'opéra baroque, de l'opéra chinois, de la corrida et des rappeurs
• Gestes de la danse
• Gestes du sport
• Gestes des grands restaurants
• Gestes de l'artisanat
• Gestes des lecteurs
• Gestes d'écrivains
• Gestes de village (comédie sans théâtre)
• Gestes de classe
• Gestes rituels
• Gestes religieux
• Gestes judiciaires
• Gestes militaires
• Gestes nationaux
• Gestes par époques
• Perpétuation des gestes
• Gestes oubliés
• Gestes retrouvés
• Gestes des "grands", gestes grands
• Gestes du pouvoir
• Gestes de la tyrannie
• Gestes des bourreaux et des esclaves
• Gestes de mépris
• Gestes d'allégeance
• Gestes des fourbes
• Gestes des rustiques
• Gestes de la contestation
• Gestes de tentatives d'échappatoire
• Gestes de la révolte
• Complément gestuel indirect
• Complément gestuel direct
• La dépêche d'Ems des gestes
• Gestes de la haine
• Gestes de l'agressivité jusque dans le positif
• Gestes des rustres
• Gestes des gros cons
• Gestes des cuistres
• Gestes de la bêtise
• Geste le plus minable que j'aie eu à connaître
• Les gestes sont des souvenirs de haine
• Gestes de connivence
• Gestes soupapes
• Gestes trompeurs
• Gestes trompés
• Fausseté du geste
• Gestes comiques de l'hypocrisie sociale
• Le geste est un résumé
• Gestes de Schiele
• Gestes de création
• Gestes de l'imagination
• Clichés de gestes
• Gestes d'entêtement
• Gestes de la moquerie
• Gestes de comédie
• Gestes bouffons
• Gestes sarcastiques
• Gestes fiers
• Gestes de triomphe
• Gestes polis
• Gestes licencieux
• Gestes comiquement stupides
• Gestes hypocrites
• Gestes d'attente (singes, 1)
• Gestes de détente (singes, 2)
• Gestes et misère (singes, 3)
• À propos d'un verbe (singes, 4)
• Gestes élégants
• Gestes d'abandon
• Apollon fit une fleur de l'ombre d'un jeune homme
• Gestes de la sexualité
• Gestes tristes

• Gestes déchirants
• Gestes sublimes
• Gestes tragiques d'une femme que l'on croyait sotte
• Gestes d'adieu
• Gestes qualifiés
• Gestes aviaires
• Gestes mammifères
• Gestes des animaux
• Gestes des végétaux
• Gestes végétaux
• Gestes aquatiques et aériens
• Gens sans gestes et gens de beaucoup de gestes
• Gestes des mimes
• Gestes exagérés
• Gestes communs
• Gestes rompus par le bruit, bruits rompus par le geste
• Gestes uniques
• Inventeurs de gestes
• Gestes sans nom
• Gestes et société
• Gestes sans destinataire
• Gestes pour soi-même
• Gestes pour rien
• Les gestes sont des souvenirs d'amour
• La mythique rencontre entre Farouche et Épée
• Le seul universel
• De l'étant plus léger
• N'être plus qu'un geste
• Papillons, papillons
• Le temps n'existe pas.

"Les mains ? Et les sourcils. Et les yeux. Et les pieds. Et la bouche, avec le sourire. Toutes ces parties du corps accomplissent des gestes. Les objets nouveaux, comme les tablettes numériques ou les cigarettes électroniques, en font faire d'inédits, tandis que d'autres disparaissent, pour parfois réapparaître. De quelle mystérieuse façon un poignet cassé sur la hanche, geste des aristocrates du XVIIIe siècle, a-t-il ressurgi chez un rocker de 1960 ? Le geste de la main d'un bébé qui s'ouvre comme une étoile de mer ne serait-il pas un souvenir des âges immémoriaux où nous étions algues ou poissons ? Y a-t-il des gestes d'hommes, des gestes de femmes ? Des gestes nationaux, des gestes universels ? Gestes de la sexualité, gestes de la politique, gestes des comédiens, gestes imités de nos morts aimés, les gestes ne sont pas l'ombre des mots ; ils peuvent être une forme de création. Plus encore qu'un langage du sens, un rapport unique au temps. Voici un livre inattendu, lumineux et sensible, riche de mille réflexions tirées de l'Histoire, de la littérature, de la peinture, du cinéma, de la danse, de l'observation des présidents de République comme des femmes druzes fabriquant de la pâte à pita. Que disent ces gestes que tout le monde fait et que personne ne semble vraiment regarder ?"--Page 4 of cover.

• Part I. Gesture-Orchestrated Speech: 1. Why we gesture
• 2. The growth point
• 3. New form of human action
• 4. Orchestration and unpacking
• 5. Mimicry and metaphor
• Part II. Phylogenesis, Ontogenesis, Brain: 6. Phylogenesis
• 7. Ontogenesis
• 8. Brain
• Part III. The Last Page: 9. Why we gesture (again).
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Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. Are gestures merely ornamentation to speech? Are they simply an 'add-on' to spoken language? Why do we gesture? These and other questions are addressed in this fascinating book. McNeill explains that the common view of language and gesture as separate entities is misinformed: language is inseparable from gesture. There is gesture-speech unity. Containing over 100 illustrations, Why We Gesture provides visual evidence to support the book's central argument that gestures orchestrate speech. This compelling book will be welcomed by students and researchers working in linguistics, psychology and communication.
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• 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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This book is a result of the growing number of insights found in recent research on gesture studies and language acquisition, which have renewed the attention of scholars in gesture functions and meanings in communication and language learning. Observation of the participation of both gesture and speech in the formulation of meaning has revealed that communication is typically multimodal. This perspective has produced engrossing research questions, particularly in contexts where the combination of languages and cultures is complex and diversified. Competence in multiple languages and in different semiotic systems inevitably impacts the way in which people interact and learn languages. Given its status as a country of immigration, Canada provides such a context for this study. This book discusses the changes that the literature on gesture studies can help implement in current practices of language pedagogy. By including gesture as a nonverbal dimension of language and as a means for language acquisition, it provides a contrast to those traditions that have viewed gesture as a marginal aspect of communication and language learning. In addition, this book offers the results of three research studies in Italian language classes in Canada, showing that gesture enables a multimodal approach in language pedagogy and a richer experience for both teachers and learners.
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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.

• 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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• 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. 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. 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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• 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. 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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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