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The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view deafness and sign language in negative terms, i.e. as deficiency, others present deafness essentially as difference, i.e. as a set of competences that might provide some insights into how spoken language works. One of the arguments of the book is that these two views of deafness and sign language still represent two dominant paradigms present in the current debates on the issue. The aim of the book, therefore, is not only to provide a historical overview but to trace what might be called a "history of the present".
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Annotation 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.

• 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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• 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 over twenty-five years ago. In "Gesture and Thought" he brings together years of this research, arguing that gesturing, an act which has been popularly understood as an accessory to speech, is actually a dialectical component of language. "Gesture and Thought" expands on McNeillOCOs acclaimed classic "Hand and Mind." While that earlier work demonstrated what gestures reveal about thought, here gestures are shown to be active participants in both speaking and thinking. Expanding on an approach introduced by Lev Vygotsky in the 1930s, McNeill posits that gestures are key ingredients in an OC imagery-language dialecticOCO that fuels both speech "and" thought. Gestures are both the OC imageryOCO and components of OC language.OCO The smallest element of this dialectic is the OC growth point, OCO a snapshotaof an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, and language groups, McNeill shows how growth points organize themselves into utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking.An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of human communication and thought, "Gesture and Thought "is a work of such consequence that it will influence all subsequent theory on the subject.".
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• 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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• 1. Foreword
• 2. Acknowledgements
• 3. Introduction
• 4. Chapter 1. The gestural sign and related key concepts
• 5. Chapter 2. The demarcative function of gesture
• 6. Chapter 3. Identifying the referential function of gesture
• 7. Chapter 4. Classification of referential gestures according to their priority components
• 8. Chapter 5. Systematic analysis to identify gestural signs
• 9. Chapter 6. Different gestures represent one notion: Variation
• 10. Chapter 7. One gesture represents different notions: Polysemy and Polysign
• 11. Chapter 8. The analogical links between gestures and notions
• 12. chapter 9. The gestural sign and speech
• 13. Chapter 10. Gesture, thought and speech
• 14. Conclusion
• 15. References
• 16. Appendix A
• 17. Appendix B
• 18. Postscript: A semiotic and linguistic perspective on gestures
• 19. Person index
• 20. Subject index.
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Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Genevieve Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows how various gestural signs can be created in the same gesture by analogical links between physical and semantic elements. Originating in our world experience via mimetic and metonymic processes, these analogical links are activated by contexts of use and thus lead to a diverse range of semantic constructions rather as, from the components of a Meccano kit, many different objects can be assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate between the concrete and the abstract, gesture may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for gesture as a symbolic system in its own right that interfaces with thought and speech production, Calbris' book brings a challenging new perspective to gesture studies and will be seminal for generations of gesture researchers.
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• 1. Introduction, p1-10
• 2. Section one. Evolutionary precursors, p11-12
• 3. Chapter 1. Monkeys' mirror neurons, p13-36
• 4. Chapter 2. Chimpanzees and the visual field of the conspecific, p37-46
• 5. Section two. The basic human ability, p47-48
• 6. Chapter 3. The three modes of processing the eyes of others, p49-60
• 7. Chapter 4. Pointing gestures, p61-78
• 8. Chapter 5. Four-hand co-operative actions and children's interpersonal co-ordination games, p79-88
• 9. Section three. Specifying some necessary requisites of language, p89-90
• 10. Chapter 6. Saussurean parity and the perception of a radically not-own self, p91-104
• 11. Chapter 7. About evocation, p105-112
• 12. Chapter 8. Symbolic play: Developments in the simulatory centre, p113-136
• 13. Chapter 9. From symbolic play to linguistic symbol, p137-158
• 14. Section four. The origin of predication and syntax, p159-160
• 15. Chapter 10. From the general exposition to the crucial requisite achieved by the protodeclarative, p161-176
• 16. Chapter 11. Toward the original perception of false beliefs of others: The importance of the learned sign, p177-188
• 17. Chapter 12. Between motor learning and the perception of beliefs of others: The crucial role of the protodeclarative, p189-202
• 18. Section five. Pregrammatical, theme-rheme syntax: Revisiting Frege and Vygotsky, p203-204
• 19. Chapter 13. From beliefs of others to communicative predication, p205-218
• 20. Chapter 14. Revisiting Frege: How can a predication be at one and the same time true and not redundant?, p219-228
• 21. Chapter 15. Communicative functions, Vygotskian 'pure predicate' and conceptual semantics: Various questions about predication, p229-238
• 22. Chapter 16. Connecting with the concepts of theme (or topic) and rheme (or comment), p239-254
• 23. Section six. From original to present-day predication: Links and grammatical syntax, p255-256
• 24. Chapter 17. Meaning and the different types of link, p257-270
• 25. Chapter 18. Expressive speech and syntactic links: A hypothesis on the historic origins of those links, and on some other questions, along the way, p271-302
• 26. Chapter 19. Historical grammaticalisation: The answers are lacking, but the questions are good, p303-314
• 27. Section seven. Syntax beyond predication, p315-316
• 28. Chapter 20. Interrogative communication, p317-336
• 29. Chapter 21. Toward complex syntax: The crucial role of reported speech, p337-358
• 30. Preliminary conclusion and the main thesis recapitulated, p359-362
• 31. References, p363-390
• 32. Glossary, p391-394
• 33. Author index, p395-400
• 34. Subject index, p401-402.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Section one. Evolutionary precursors
• 3. Chapter 1. Monkeys' mirror neurons
• 4. Chapter 2. Chimpanzees and the visual field of the conspecific
• 5. Section two. The basic human ability
• 6. Chapter 3. The three modes of processing the eyes of others
• 7. Chapter 4. Pointing gestures
• 8. Chapter 5. Four-hand co-operative actions and children's interpersonal co-ordination games
• 9. Section three. Specifying some necessary requisites of language
• 10. Chapter 6. Saussurean parity and the perception of a radically not-own self
• 11. Chapter 7. About evocation
• 12. Chapter 8. Symbolic play: Developments in the simulatory centre
• 13. Chapter 9. From symbolic play to linguistic symbol
• 14. Section four. The origin of predication and syntax
• 15. Chapter 10. From the general exposition to the crucial requisite achieved by the protodeclarative
• 16. Chapter 11. Toward the original perception of false beliefs of others: The importance of the learned sign
• 17. Chapter 12. Between motor learning and the perception of beliefs of others: The crucial role of the protodeclarative
• 18. Section five. Pregrammatical, theme-rheme syntax: Revisiting Frege and Vygotsky
• 19. Chapter 13. From beliefs of others to communicative predication
• 20. Chapter 14. Revisiting Frege: How can a predication be at one and the same time true and not redundant?
• 21. Chapter 15. Communicative functions, Vygotskian 'pure predicate' and conceptual semantics: Various questions about predication
• 22. Chapter 16. Connecting with the concepts of theme (or topic) and rheme (or comment)
• 23. Section six. From original to present-day predication: Links and grammatical syntax
• 24. Chapter 17. Meaning and the different types of link
• 25. Chapter 18. Expressive speech and syntactic links: A hypothesis on the historic origins of those links, and on some other questions, along the way
• 26. Chapter 19. Historical grammaticalisation: The answers are lacking, but the questions are good
• 27. Section seven. Syntax beyond predication
• 28. Chapter 20. Interrogative communication
• 29. Chapter 21. Toward complex syntax: The crucial role of reported speech
• 30. Preliminary conclusion and the main thesis recapitulated
• 31. References
• 32. Glossary
• 33. Author index
• 34. Subject index.
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What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patterns, the evocation of absent objects and the grasping of others' false beliefs all have in common? Apart from being (one way or other) involved in the language, they all would share a demanding requirement - a second mental centre within the subject. This redefinition of the simulationism is extended in the present book in two directions. Firstly, mirror-neurons and, likewise, animal abilities connected with the visual field of their fellows, although they certainly constitute important landmarks, would not require this second mental centre. Secondly, others' beliefs would have given rise not only to predicative communicative function but also to pre-grammatical syntax. The inquiry about the evolutionary-historic origin of language focuses on the cognitive requirements on it as a faculty (but not to the indirect causes such as environmental changes or greater co-operation), pays attention to children, and covers other human peculiarities as well, e.g., symbolic play, protodeclaratives, self-conscious emotions, and interactional or four-hand tasks.
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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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• 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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• Preface; Notes on Contributors; The Body in Language: An Introduction; Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Patterns of Body Part Terms; The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization; Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic; Extending Body-Part Terms in the Domain of Emotions; Corporeal Incorporation and Extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) Lexicalization; The Cow's Body as the Source Domain of Philosophical Metaphors in the Rg̣veda: The Case of 'Udder' (ū́dhar); Conceptualization of the Body and Self.

• Our Collocating Body Parts: Recurring Images of Self and Other in the Use of English Body-Part TermsNotions of SELF in Hausa; Embodied Languages and Other Modalities; Hausa Metaphors: Gestural Idioms Containing Body-Part Terms; The Up/Down Orientation in Language and Music; Case Studies from Africa; Embodiment in Zande; Body Parts We Live By in Language and Culture: The raaS 'head' and yidd 'hand' in Tunisian Arabic; What Hands/Arms Can Say: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Swahili Body-Part Terms Mkono and Mikono; Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Mundabli.

• Whomever It Concerns-Notions of Control, Initiation and Affectedness in Expressions of Body-Centred Activities in MbembeSexual, Impure, Vulgar: An Analysis of the Intimate Body-Part Terms in Egyptian Arabic; Case Studies from Europe; Selected Body-Part Terms as a Means for Conveying Abstract Concepts in The Economist: The Case of Head, Eye, Mouth and Nose; Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian 'Navel'; Author Index; Language Index; Subject Index.

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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• 1. A foreword
• 2. From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance (by Seyfeddinipur, Mandana)
• 3. Part I. Gaze and face
• 4. Including facial gestures in gesture-speech ensembles (by Bavelas, Janet)
• 5. Mutual gaze and recognition: Revisiting Kendon's "Gaze direction in two-person conversation" (by Streeck, Jurgen)
• 6. Part II. Manual gestures - quotable gestures and pointing
• 7. Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township (by Brookes, Heather J.)
• 8. The emblem as metaphor (by McNeill, David)
• 9. Pointing, talk, and the bodies: Reference and joint attention as embodied interactional achievements (by Mondada, Lorenza)
• 10. Part III. Manual gestures - their nature and relationship to language
• 11. Gesture as "deliberate expressive movement" (by Muller, Cornelia)
• 12. On the lower limit of gesture (by Andren, Mats)
• 13. Part IV. Language evolution
• 14. The word according to Adam: The role of gesture in language evolution (by Corballis, Michael C.)
• 15. The intelligibility of gesture within a framework of co-operative action (by Goodwin, Charles)
• 16. Part V. Sign systems
• 17. Signs and space in Arandic sand narratives (by Green, Jenny)
• 18. Different strokes: Gesture phrases and gesture units in a family homesign from Chiapas, Mexico (by Haviland, John B.)
• 19. Gesture in all its forms: Following in the footsteps of Adam Kendon (by Goldin-Meadow, Susan)
• 20. Part VI. Children language development
• 21. The development of two pragmatic gestures of the so-called Open Hand Supine family in Italian children (by Graziano, Maria)
• 22. How gestures help children to track reference in narrative (by Cristilli, Carla)
• 23. Gestures and multimodal development: Some key issues for language acquisition (by Guidetti, Michele)
• 24. Name index
• 25. Subject index.
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Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage in mutual gaze to establish intersubjectivity. This volume brings together studies by leading scholars from several fields on gaze and facial displays, on the relationship between gestures, sign, and language, on pointing and other conventionalized forms of manual expression, on gestures and language evolution, and on gestures in child development. The papers in this collection honor Adam Kendon whose pioneering work has laid the theoretical and methodological foundations for contemporary studies of multimodality, gestures, and utterance visible action.
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• 1. Acknowledgements
• 2. Introduction
• 3. On the interactional ecology of objects (by Nevile, Maurice)
• 4. Part A. Objects as situated resources
• 5. Organising and sequencing
• 6. The order of ordering: Objects, requests and embodied conduct in a public bar (by Richardson, Emma)
• 7. Initiating activity shifts through use of appraisal forms as material objects during performance appraisal interviews (by Mikkola, Piia)
• 8. "I'll just see what you had before": Making computer use relevant while patients present their problems (by Beck Nielsen, Soren)
• 9. Participating and involving
• 10. Objects as tools for talk (by Day, Dennis)
• 11. Photo sharing as a joint activity between an aphasic speaker and others (by Aaltonen, Tarja)
• 12. Organising the soundscape: Participants' orientation to impending sound when turning on auditory objects in interaction (by Rauniomaa, Mirka)
• 13. Cultivating objects in interaction: Visual motifs as meaning making practices (by Hazel, Spencer)
• 14. Part B. Objects as practical accomplishments
• 15. Shaping and creating
• 16. Cooking instructions and the shaping of things in the kitchen (by Mondada, Lorenza)
• 17. To follow the materials: The detection, diagnosis and correction of mistakes in craft education (by Ekstrom, Anna)
• 18. Having a ball: Immaterial objects in dance instruction (by Keevallik, Leelo)
• 19. Experiencing and identifying
• 20. Establishing joint orientation towards commercial objects in a self-service store: How practices of categorisation matter (by De Stefani, Elwys)
• 21. Artworks as touchable objects: Guiding perception in a museum tour for blind people (by Kreplak, Yael)
• 22. Incidental and essential objects in interaction: Paper documents in journalistic work (by Weilenmann, Alexandra)
• 23. Envisioning the plan in interaction: Configuring pipes during a plumbers' meeting (by Sakai, Shinichiro)
• 24. Instructed objects (by Koschmann, Timothy)
• 25. Epilogue
• 26. Trajectories of the object in interaction (by Matthews, Ben)
• 27. Person index
• 28. Subject index.
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Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature in social interaction and activity. The studies consider many objects (e.g. paper documents, food, a camera, art, furniture, and even the human body), across various situations, such as shopping, visiting the doctor, interviews and meetings, surgery, and instruction in dance, craft, or cooking. Analyses reveal in precise detail how, as people interact, objects are seen, touched and handled, heard, created, transformed, planned, imagined, shared, discussed, or appreciated. With the companion collection Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. By focussing on objects in and for actual occasions of human action, Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity will interest many researchers and practitioners in language and social interaction, communication and discourse, design, and also more widely within anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related disciplines.
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• Acknowledgements; Transcription conventions; PART I: Introduction; Being mobile: Interaction on the move; PART II: Staging and collaborating for mobility; Withdrawing from exhibits: The interactional organisation of museum visits; A Walk on the pier: Establishing relevant places in mobile instruction; The collaborative organisation of next actions in a semiotically rich environment: Shopping as a couple; Seeing on the move: Mobile collaboration on the battlefield; PART III: Projecting and engaging mobility; Projecting mobility: Passengers directing drivers at junctions.

• Before, in and after: Cars making their way through roundaboutsPART IV: Coordinating and controlling mobility; Centres of coordination as a nexus of aviation; Interactionally generated encounters and the accomplishment of mutual proximity in mobile phone conversations; Coordinating mobile action in real time: The timely organisation of directives in video games; PART V: Creating and performing mobility; Here in time and space: Decomposing movement in dance instruction; The sociality of stillness; PART VI: Epilogue; Interacting outside the box: Between social interaction and mobilities.

How do people interact when they are on the move? How do people interact in order to be mobile? How do people coordinate the mobility of others? How does mobility feature in social interaction? `Multimodal interaction' and `mobility' are of increasing interest to scholars across disciplines. Interaction and mobility is the first book to study these aspects comprehensively. It provides cutting-edge research by international scholars who use video-recordings of real-life everyday interactions for studying in close detail human social interaction in such diverse multimodal settings as airplanes, cars, traffic control centres, dance schools, museums and other public places, and as part of such activities as instructing, navigating, identifying an enemy on the battlefield, organising a meeting, playing videogames, shopping, performing and dancing. Together, these studies highlight features of social interaction, including language, embodied conduct, and spatial and material orientation, for being mobile, for interacting on the move, so that mobility becomes a ubiquitous feature of our lives. This book is a valuable resource to anyone interested in multimodal interaction and mobility.
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How do people use language, gestures and the material environment around them for interacting in mobile situations? Interaction and Mobility brings together international scholars who use video-recordings from real-life everyday settings to study how people interact in diverse mobile situations as part of activities such as walking, driving, flying, dancing and gaming. This book is valuable for anyone interested in multi modal interaction and mobility.
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• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
• ch. 2 presentation of the field
• Body, language and meaning
• body and its social meaning
• study of non-verbal communication
• Pointing gestures
• Mismatches between verbal and non-verbal modalities
• Gestures remain unnoticed
• Linguistics and non-verbal study
• Sign-oriented semiotic theory
• word systems semiotic approach
• Research on conflict
• Language and conflict
• Conflict between groups
• Arab-Jewish conflict
• ch. 3 Methodological issues
• data: A means to study conflict
• Preliminary data analysis
• gestalt view of the text
• Initial analysis of mismatches
• mismatch form
• Non-random distribution of signs: The word systems
• Analysis of the text as a whole
• word systems theoretical framework
• beten (belly) word system
• medina-adama (state-land) word system -- ^ Shoa-Nakba (Holocaust-Catastrophe) word system
• Limitations
• ch. 4 beten word system
• meaning of the belly -- Literature review
• first half of the ninth meeting
• Brief presentation of the interaction
• mismatches
• Non-verbal expressions of beten
• second half of the ninth meeting
• beginning
• Michal: The notion of space and the full beten
• Nurit: Addressing her own identity issue through the beten mele'a
• Nabila: The beten as a common enemy
• Nurit: Efforts to connect to Manar's beten
• Manar: Puncture vs. protection, some verbal and non-verbal considerations
• Shoshi: "I'm dying to understand you. It's difficult for you, so I can't understand you"
• Other participants describe Shoshi
• Further observations -- Other participants
• facilitators: Verbal and non-verbal considerations
• Sari: Difficulties with the undefined, with feelings
• Michael: Approaching intimacy -- ^

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. Introduction: Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates (by Liebal, Katja)
• 2. Articles
• 3. The syntactic motor system (by Roy, Alice C.)
• 4. Gestural communication in nonhuman primates
• 5. The gestural communication of apes (by Pika, Simone)
• 6. Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides): Use of signals in relation to dominance and social context (by Maestripieri, Dario)
• 7. Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Influence of food size and distance (by Leavens, David A.)
• 8. Requesting gestures in captive monkeys and apes: Conditioned responses or referential behaviours? (by Gomez, Juan-Carlos)
• 9. Cross-fostered chimpanzees modulate signs of American Sign Language (by Chalcraft, Valerie J.)
• 10. Gestural communication in human primates
• 11. Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner (by Liszkowski, Ulf)
• 12. From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspective (by Capirci, Olga)
• 13. The link and differences between deixis and symbols in children's early gestural-vocal system (by Antinoro Pizzuto, Elena)
• 14. A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language (by Blake, Joanna)
• 15. How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures?: Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities (by Ozyurek, Asli)
• 16. The two faces of gesture: Language and thought (by Goldin-Meadow, Susan)
• 17. Gestures in human and nonhuman primates: Why we need a comparative view (by Muller, Cornelia)
• 18. Book Review
• 19. Michael C. Corballis (2002). From hand to mouth. The origins of language (by Copple, Mary M.).
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• 1. Introduction: Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates (by Liebal, Katja), p1-4
• 2. Articles
• 3. The syntactic motor system (by Roy, Alice C.), p5-32
• 4. Gestural communication in nonhuman primates
• 5. The gestural communication of apes (by Pika, Simone), p35-49
• 6. Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides): Use of signals in relation to dominance and social context (by Maestripieri, Dario), p51-66
• 7. Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Influence of food size and distance (by Leavens, David A.), p67-80
• 8. Requesting gestures in captive monkeys and apes: Conditioned responses or referential behaviours? (by Gomez, Juan-Carlos), p81-94
• 9. Cross-fostered chimpanzees modulate signs of American Sign Language (by Chalcraft, Valerie J.), p95-117
• 10. Gestural communication in human primates
• 11. Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner (by Liszkowski, Ulf), p121-138
• 12. From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspective (by Capirci, Olga), p139-159
• 13. The link and differences between deixis and symbols in children's early gestural-vocal system (by Antinoro Pizzuto, Elena), p161-179
• 14. A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language (by Blake, Joanna), p181-195
• 15. How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures?: Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities (by Ozyurek, Asli), p197-216
• 16. The two faces of gesture: Language and thought (by Goldin-Meadow, Susan), p217-231
• 17. Gestures in human and nonhuman primates: Why we need a comparative view (by Muller, Cornelia), p233-256
• 18. Book Review
• 19. Michael C. Corballis (2002). From hand to mouth. The origins of language (by Copple, Mary M.), p257-275.
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Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics, varying methods and approaches, and even different species such as humans, apes and monkeys. The aim of this volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)) is to bring together the research in gestural communication in both nonhuman and human primates and to explore the potential of a comparative approach and its contribution to the question of an evolutionary scenario in which gestures play a significant role. The topics covered include the spontaneous natural gesture use in social groups of apes and monkeys, but also during interactions with humans, gestures of preverbal children and their interaction with language, speech-accompanying gestures in humans as well as the use of sign-language in human and nonhuman great apes. It addresses researchers with a background in Psychology, Primatology, Linguistics, and Anthropology, but it might also function as an introduction and a documentation state of the art for a wider less specialised audience which is fascinated by the role gestures might have played in the evolution of human language.
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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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• 1. About the authors, pvii-viii
• 2. Preface (by Gullberg, Marianne), p1
• 3. Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development (by Gullberg, Marianne), p3-33
• 4. Before L1: A differentiated perspective on infant gestures (by Liszkowski, Ulf), p35-51
• 5. The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task (by Stefanini, Silvia), p53-74
• 6. The effect of gestures on second language memorisation by young children (by Tellier, Marion), p75-91
• 7. Gesture and information structure in first and second language (by Yoshioka, Keiko), p93-112
• 8. Gesture viewpoint in Japanese and English: Cross-linguistic interactions between two languages in one speaker (by Brown, Amanda), p113-133
• 9. Author index, p135
• 10. Subject index, p137-138.
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Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different disciplines that examine language development in children and adults from varying perspectives. It provides a review of common theoretical and empirical themes, and the contributions address topics such as gesture use in prelinguistic infants, the relationship between gestures and lexical development in typically and atypically developing children and in second language learners, what gestures reveal about discourse, and how all languages that adult second language speakers know can influence each other. The papers exemplify a vibrant new field of study with relevance for multiple disciplines.
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• 1. Contributors
• 2. Acknowledgements
• 3. Introduction (by Cienki, Alan)
• 4. Why study metaphor and gesture? (by Cienki, Alan)
• 5. From left to right...: Coverbal gestures and their symbolic use of space (by Calbris, Genevieve)
• 6. Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool (by Williams, Robert F.)
• 7. A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics: Gesture and the psychological reality of conceptual metaphor (by Nunez, Rafael)
• 8. Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor: Iconic modes in gestural representations of grammar (by Mittelberg, Irene)
• 9. Unexpected metaphors (by McNeill, David)
• 10. Catchment, growth point and spatial metaphor: Analysing Derrida's oral discourse on deconstruction (by Montredon, Jacques)
• 11. Form, meaning, and convention: A comparison of a metaphoric gesture with an emblem (by Parrill, Fey)
• 12. What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor (by Muller, Cornelia)
• 13. Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines
• 14. Metaphoric gesture and cognitive linguistics (by Langacker, Ronald W.)
• 15. Metaphoric gestures and cultural analysis (by Quinn, Naomi)
• 16. Metaphor and gesture: A view from the microanalysis of interaction (by Streeck, Jurgen)
• 17. Implications of cognitive metaphor and gesture studies for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and vice versa (by Hougaard, Anders)
• 18. Sign and gesture: Towards a new paradigm (by Wilcox, Sherman)
• 19. The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics (by Bouissac, Paul)
• 20. The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist (by Lakoff, George)
• 21. Metaphor and gesture: Some implications for psychology (by Gibbs, Raymond)
• 22. Index.
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This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture - a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.
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• Preface; Introduction: Current Issues in the Study of 'Nonverbal Communication'; PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; The Repertoire of Nonverbal Behavior: Categories, Origins, Usage, and Coding; Forms and Functions of Nonverbal Communication in the Novel: A New Perspective of the Author-Character-Reader Relationship; Toward a Mathematization of Kinetic Behavior: A Review of Paul Bouissac's La Mesure des Gestes; Maximizing Replicability in Describing Facial Behavior; PART TWO: ORGANIZATION OF BEHAVIOR IN SOCIAL ENCOUNTERS.

• Patterns of Public Behavior: Collision Avoidance on a Pedestrian CrossingGreeting a Stranger: Some Commonly Used Nonverbal Signals of Aversiveness; Handwork as Ceremony: The Case of the Handshake; Kinesic Signals at Utterance Boundaries in Preschool Children; The Different Functions of Gaze; Sequential Temporal Patterns of Speech and Gaze in Dialogue; Some Functions of the Face in a Kissing Round; The Case of the Apple Turnover: An Experiment in Multichannel Communication Analysis; PART THREE: GESTURE; Gesture Inventories: Fieldwork Methodology and Problems.

• Communicative Body Movements: American EmblemsContrastive-Identiflcational Features of Persian Gesture; Physical versus Semantic Classification of Nonverbal Forms: A Cross-Cultural Experiment; Facial Emblems of 'Right' and 'Wrong': Topographical Analysis and Derivation of a Recognition Test; Tongue Showing: A Facial Display of Humans and Other Primate Species; Sources.

The present volume is an excellent introduction to the study of human nonverbal communication, including interaction and gesture, for students and specialists in other disciplines, as well as a convenient compilation of significant contributions to the field for experts. Part 1 includes four articles, the import of which is primarily theoretical or methodological. Part II comprises eight articles in which instances of interaction are examined and attempts are made to explain how the behavior that can be observed in them functions in the interaction process. Part III presents six articles on w.

• 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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• 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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"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.

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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. Toward an embodied account of narrative development
• Part I. Narratives As Symbol Formation: 2. Narratives, cohesion and symbol formation
• 3. Social and natural sources of change
• Part II. Social Sources of Cohesion: 4. Social sources of cohesion - cohesive sources of coherence
• 5. How early cohesion is grounded in enactment
• Part III. Gestures, Cohesion, and Narrative Development: 6. Dual semiosis and the roots of cohesion
• 7. Gestural sources of early cohesion - insights from Ella's stories
• 8. Gestures, cohesion, and symbol formation
• 9. Implications for children with autism
• 10. The material carrier
• Appendix 1. Transcription of Ella's speech and gestures
• Appendix 2. Description of Rosie and Jim episodes (94 weeks
• 23:00 on video).
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As children begin to use language in early childhood, they produce increasingly large units of coherent speech, including narrative descriptions of events. This book examines the process of narrative development in young children, focusing on the development of 'cohesion' - the use of speech and gesture to create coherent perspectives on events. Surveying early narrative development in which gesture plays an integral part, the book explores the development of cohesive, clause-linking devices during the period from age two to three. Illustrated with longitudinal cases studies, the book examines the crib-talk of two-year-old Emily and compares it to the discourse patterns of storybooks and nursery rhymes, and to her father's pre-bedtime routines. In a second case study, the authors trace the changing relationships between speech and gesture in the spontaneous narratives of two-year-old Ella. This book will be invaluable to students and researchers in language acquisition, developmental psychology and gesture studies.
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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