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• Introduction: My journey into gesture
• Part I: Thinking with our hands. Why do we use our hands when we talk?
• Our hands reflect our minds
• Our hands can change our minds
• Part II: Speaking with our hands. As long a there are humans, there will be language
• Watching language grow naturally and in the lab
• Part III: Why you should care about hands. Using hands to parent
• Using hands to diagnose and treat
• Using hands to educate
• What if gesture were considered as important as language?

"Imagine a friend who earnestly tells you that he thinks men and women are equally good leaders. But when he talks about men's leadership skills, he places his palm at eye-level, and when he talks about women's leadership skills, he places his palm a bit lower, at mouth-level. His hands have given him away: even if he truly thinks that his views are egalitarian, he holds an implicit belief that is now there for all the word to see. You swear you heard him say something disparaging, even if you don't fully realize why. In Thinking With Your Hands, cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow reveals just how essential gestures are to how we think and communicate. Drawing on decades of research, including experiments and studies from throughout her own illustrious career, Goldin-Meadow presents the definitive overview of the most important feature of human communication that you've never thought about. Gesture is a universal behavior common to every culture and language. It's found among Deaf people who use their hands to speak in sign language and blind people who have never seen anyone gesture before. Far from being an affective flourish, Goldin-Meadow argues, gestures are an integral piece of the conversation-even if we don't realize it while we're using them. They give form to ideas that are difficult to phrase in language and help us express ideas that we are grappling with but haven't yet fully grasped. Indeed, understanding gesture compels us to re-think everything from to how we set development milestones for children, to what's admissible in a court of law, to whether FaceTime is a good communication technology. A landmark achievement by a star in the field of cognitive psychology, Thinking With Your Hands reveals the entire landscape of communication that's hidden in our hands and promises to transform the way we think about language for decades to come"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1. Introduction Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow Part I: An Emblematic Gesture: Pointing
• Chapter 2. Pointing in Gesture and Sign Kensy Cooperrider and Kate Mesch
• Chapter 3. Early Pointing Gestures Aliyah Morgenstern Part II: Gesture Before Speech
• Chapter 4. Early Gesture Predicts Later Language Development Meredith L. Rowe, Ran Wei, and Virginia C. Salo
• Chapter 5. Interaction Between Modalities and Within Development Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, and Virginia Volterra Part III: Gesture With Speech During Language Learning
• Chapter 6. Constructing a System of Communication with Gestures and Words Eve V. Clark and Barbara Kelly
• Chapter 7. Embodying Language Complexity: Co-speech Gestures Between Age 3 and 4 Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel
• Chapter 8. Gesture Can Facilitate Children's Learning and Generalization of Verbs Casey Hall, Elizabeth Wakefield, and Susan Goldin-Meadow Part IV: Gesture After Speech is Mastered
• Chapter 9. On the Co-Development of Gesture and Monologic Discourse in children Jean-Marc Colletta
• Chapter 10. Understanding How Gestures are Produced and Perceived Susan Wagner Cook
• Chapter 11. Gesture in the Aging Brain Tilbe GOEksun, Demet OEzer, and Seda Akbiyik Part V: Gesture with More Than One Language
• Chapter 12. Gesture in Bilingual Language Acquisition Elena Nicoladis and Lisa Smithson
• Chapter 13. Bimodal Convergence: How Languages Interact in Multicompetent Language Users' Speech and Gestures Marianne Gullberg
• Chapter 14. Gesture Helps Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Gale Stam and Marion Tellier.
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When do human beings begin producing gestures, and how do they evolve throughout our cognitive and social development? This book investigates the rich and complex ways in which gesture precedes language development and then is used in conjunction with language across the lifespan. Some experts argue that gesture is a part of language, while others argue it is a partner to language. But all agree that gesture plays a major role in language development and practices, and therefore must be captured by scientific analyses. This volume explores gesture's many functions--communicative, restorative, cognitive--across cultures and ages, in monolingual and multilingual populations, in students and in teachers. Gestures, verbal productions, signs, gazes, facial expressions, and postures are all part of our socially learned, intersubjective communicative systems that we combine for the purpose of sharing meaning, referring to present and absent entities and events, expressing projects, desires, and feelings, and so much more. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate how gestures contribute to the cognitive and social development of humans within their lifespan, and may also indicate the efficacy of interactional practices and cognitive processes. This book is thought-provoking reading for psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, and all who study language development.
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• Relire "les techniques du corps". Les enjeux d'un programme de recherche
• Jean-François Bert
• Les techniques du corps
• Marcel Mauss, "Les techniques du corps", Journal de psychologie normale et pathologique, 32/3-4,15 mars-15 avril 1935, p. 271-293. Communication présentée à la Société de psychologie le 17 mai 1934
• La locomotion naturelle
• Edgar de Geoffroy, extrait de "La locomotion naturelle", dans Charles Dollfus, Edgar de Geoffroy, Louis Baudry de Saunier (dir.), Histoire de la locomotion terrestre, Paris, L'Illustration, 1936, t. 2.
• La toungra-taïga et l'homme
• André Leroi-Gourhan, extrait de "La toungra-taiga et l'homme", dans La civilisation du renne, Paris, Gallimard, 1936, chap. 3, p. 28-38
• Relations entre gestes habituels, forme des vêtements et manière de porter les charges
• André-Georges Haudricourt, "Relations entre gestes habituels, forme des vêtements et manière de porter les charges", La Revue de géographie humaine et d'ethnologie, 3,1948, p.58-67
• L'évolution des langues et des écritures
• Marcel Cohen, L'évolution des langues et des écritures, Paris, Éditions du Palais de la Découverte, 1948
• Ethnologie et usages corporels
• Jean-Louis Pelosse, "Ethnologie et usages corporels", Revue des sciences médicales, 26,1956, p. 3-12
• Les techniques du corps ou comment rendre compte des opérations techniques essentielles
• Igor de Garine, "Les techniques du corps", Encyclopédie Clartés, Paris, 1957, vol. IV, p. 4720-4730
• Société, technique et civilisation
• Georges Gurvitch, "Société, technique et civilisation", Cahiers internationaux de sociologie, 45, juillet-décembre 1968, p. 5-16
• Techniques corporelles et leur notation symbolique
• Bernard Kœchlin, "Techniques corporelles et leur notation symbolique", Langages, 3/10,1968, p. 36-47
• Marcel Mauss et l'homme de terrain
• Georges Condominas, "Marcel Mauss et l'homme de terrain", L'arc, 48,1972, p. 3-8
• Anthropologie des techniques du corps
• Georges Vigarello, "Introduction", Revue STARS, P. Boyer, G. Bruant, Midol, A. Rauch (dir.), "Anthropologie des techniques du corps"0984
• La formule de Mauss
• François Sigaut, "La formule de Mauss", Techniques et culture, 40,2003
• Postface. Retour sur une lecture des "techniques du corps" de Marcel Mauss (mars 2021)
• Jean-Pierre Warnier
• Dossier iconographique.

"C'est en 1934, devant un parterre de psychologues, que Marcel Mauss énonce sa célèbre conférence "Les techniques du corps". L'enjeu est de taille car il s'agit de démontrer 1 - que les gestes techniques sont une coordination de différents mouvements du corps organisés en vue d'obtenir un résultat et une certaine efficacité, 2 - que les actes techniques sont valorisés par le groupe dans son ensemble, car c'est lui qui les reconnaît comme efficaces physiquement, socialement et matériellement, et 3 - que le social s'insère au plus profond de l'individu non pas uniquement pour le déterminer négativement, mais aussi pour l'adapter aux différents changements de la vie sociale. En proposant cette nouvelle hypothèse, Mauss fait du corps un objet central pour la réflexion anthropologique. Dans ce livre, Jean-François Bert, spécialiste de Mauss et de l'histoire de l'anthropologie française, propose une nouvelle édition commentée de la conférence de Mauss ; il retrace aussi l'histoire de sa réception et de sa diffusion en proposant un recueil des différents textes écrits à partir des années 1950 qui utilisent, discutent ou précisent les hypothèses originales de l'anthropologue."--Page 4 of cover.

• Focus groups : a multimodal approach
• They thought we were a hick town
• We're doin this here now
• Struck by speech
• Interactional positioning
• Poetic positioning and multimodal hypotheticals
• When the dust cleared up
• We have four hundred and seventy six neighborhood watches.

"Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However, there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving beyond a narrow preoccupation with topic talk, Gilbert and Matoesian take a novel direction to focus group analysis. They address how multimodal resources - the integration of speech, gesture, gaze, and posture - orchestrate communal relations and professional identities, linking macro orders of space-time to microcosmic action in a focus group evaluation of community policing training. They conceptualize assessment as an evaluation ritual, a sociocultural reaffirmation of collective identity and symbolic maintenance of professional boundary enacted in aesthetically patterned oratory. In the wake of social unrest and citizen disillusionment with policing practice, Gilbert and Matoesian argue that processes of multimodal interaction provide a critical direction for focus group evaluation of police reforms. Their book will be of interest to researchers who study focus group interviews, gesture, language and culture, and policing reform"-- Provided by publisher

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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This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal and nonverbal modes, and are part of the communicative repertoire of individuals and sociocultural groups. Emblems constitute clear cases of embodiment and are susceptible to many processes of metaphorization (contrasting or not with verbal metaphors), metonymy, and interference between modalities. The applications of emblematic analysis are numerous, from lexicography to second language learning, or to natural language processing.
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• Austin and elocution in context
• Austin's scientific publications in context
• The chironomia revisited
• Portraying movement in The chironomia
• Teaching social, professional, and gender ethos
• Beyond The chironomia : movement as actio.

"This book-length study of Irish educator, clergyman, and author Gilbert Austin as an elocutionary rhetor considers how his work informs contemporary scholarship on delivery, rhetorical history and theory, and embodied communication"-- Provided by publisher.

• 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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• L'amphibologie du concept de chair
• L'enracinement du concept de chair dans la phénoménologie transcendantale Carrefour conceptuel : la chair comme facultas sentiendi et facilitas ambulandi
• La tâche d'une élucidation phénoménologique de la mobilité
• Genèse et statut de la phénoménologie du mouvement
• L'introduction du concept phénoménologique de "kinesthèse"
• Présupposés et limites de l'analyse de la perception dans Chose et espace
• La définition préalable du concept de perception
• La "double relation" inhérente à toute perception
• La construction de l'exemple directeur: le primat de la perception isolée et immobile
• L'entrée en scène manquée du mouvement subjectif dans la troisième section de Chose et espace
• Le mouvement de la perception
• L'équivalence apparente entre mouvements subjectif et objectif
• La découverte du mouvement subjectif dans la quatrième section de Chose et espace
• Phénoménologie de la choséité et phénoménologie de la perception
• La présence des choses dans la perception
• La reconstruction de la perception : le "concept phénoménologique de kinesthèse"
• Déterminations fondamentales du mouvement
• La kinesthèse en tant que sensation de mouvement
• Les origines psychophysiques de la notion de "sensation de mouvement"
• Psychophysique et phénoménologie du mouvement
• Contre toute compréhension sensualiste du pouvoir de se mouvoir
• La kinesthèse en tant que mobilité originaire de l'ego
• D'une polémique autour de la "collusion merleau-pontienne"
• L'importance des "kinesthèses sauvages"
• "Je peux me mouvoir" : vers une conception motrice de la subjectivité
• La kinesthèse en tant que corrélation ?
• La "motivation kinesthésique" : relation empirique, causale ou fonctionnelle ?
• La percée de Husserl : le mouvement comme rapport originaire
• L'essence corrélationnelle de la mobilité
• Mobilité et choséité : Constitutions des choses et de la chair
• Phénoménologie de la mobilité et phénoménologie de la choséité
• Le parti pris des choses : clarification et justification du retournement de la méthode
• Le rapport de la théorie des kinesthèses à la doctrine des esquisses
• La dépendance du cours de l'apparaître à celui des kinesthèses
• L'implication des kinesthèses dans les esquisses de forme et de contenu
• De la kinesthèse à l'action
• Sens et mouvement: la corrélation kinesthético-noématique
• Le déroulement de l'espace
• Fonction perceptive et fonction pratique des kinesthèses : l'élargissement du concept phénoménologique de mouvement
• La co-constitution ergonomique des choses et de la chair
• Ustensilité et maniabilité de la chose
• Le caractère originaire' de l'ustensilité chez Heidegger
• La fiction de la chose isolée : que le maniement ne saurait faire voir la chose
• La fiction de la chose étrangère : que la chose serait impuissante à s'impose d'elle-même
• Entre Husserl et Heidegger : les choses comme tractabilia
• Aux mains des choses : l'idée programmatique d'une ergonomie phénoménologique
• Radicalisation préalable de la problématique ergonomique traditionnelle
• L'apparaître originairement prescriptif de la chose chez Husserl
• L'exemple limite du vestige

• Essais et erreurs : l'auto-dévoilement des choses
• Toute chose serait-elle donc artificielle ?
• Conséquences : histoire des choses et historicité de la chair
• Exemplification. La chair du chercheur": oeillères et oeil nu
• Linéaments d'une philosophie du geste
• Le geste comme pouvoir de la chair. La nécessité d'une troisième voie
• Pouvoir et potentialités de la chair chez Michel Henry
• Il S'approprier : le monde de la vie comme monde des biens
• La propriété au sens pré juridique
• La constitution de la propriété par la praxis perceptive
• La portée et l'occupation de la chair: l'espacement du monde des choses
• Servir : l'agir comme subir
• Indices pour une phénoménologie de l'esclave
• Du pouvoir de l'autre sur ma chair. Une approche phénoménologique de Surveiller et punir
• Consentir : que la mobilité traverse l'affectivité
• Incursions dans une philosophie du geste
• Inexpressivité et immobilité du geste.

"Dans ses leçons de l'été 1907, Husserl aperçoit pour la première fois la fonction primordiale du mouvement corporel dans la constitution du monde, ce dernier n'apparaissant que si un sujet s'engage, par sa chair, à le susciter et le déployer. Au fil de son oeuvre et plus particulièrement de ses manuscrits de recherche, Husserl poursuivra l'analyse de cette mobilité constituante en retraçant non seulement son rôle dans la perception, mais aussi son articulation pratique au monde vécu. Les descriptions husserliennes méconnues du vestige, de la chambre ou de la propriété révèlent alors une genèse conjointe de la chair et des choses. Cette idée d'une corrélation originaire entre mobilité et choséité implique ultimement l'historicité des potentialités incarnées, à savoir l'institution de pouvoirs relevant d'une gestuelle fondamentale : se tenir, servir, montrer, etc. Sous l'intitulé énigmatique d'une "empiriographie" transcendantale", la phénoménologie husserlienne du mouvement pointe ainsi en direction d'une analytique des gestes fondateurs, mais chaque fois renouvelés, de notre humanité commune."--Page 4 of cover.

• 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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• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Tangible Interaction Design Designing for Tangible Interaction Gesture-based Interaction Designing for Gesture Interaction Looking to the Future: Research Challenges Bibliography Authors' Biographies.
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Interactive technology is increasingly integrated with physical objects that do not have a traditional keyboard and mouse style of interaction, and many do not even have a display. These objects require new approaches to interaction design, referred to as post-WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer) or as embodied interaction design. This book provides an overview of the design opportunities and issues associated with two embodied interaction modalities that allow us to leave the traditional keyboard behind: tangible and gesture interaction. We explore the issues in designing for this new age of interaction by highlighting the significance and contexts for these modalities. We explore the design of tangible interaction with a reconceptualization of the traditional keyboard as a Tangible Keyboard, and the design of interactive three-dimensional (3D) models as Tangible Models. We explore the design of gesture interaction through the design of gesture-base commands for a walk-up-and-use information display, and through the design of a gesture-based dialogue for the willful marionette. We conclude with design principles for tangible and gesture interaction and a call for research on the cognitive effects of these modalities.
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• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Tangible Interaction Design Designing for Tangible Interaction Gesture-based Interaction Designing for Gesture Interaction Looking to the Future: Research Challenges Bibliography Authors' Biographies.
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Interactive technology is increasingly integrated with physical objects that do not have a traditional keyboard and mouse style of interaction, and many do not even have a display. These objects require new approaches to interaction design, referred to as post-WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer) or as embodied interaction design. This book provides an overview of the design opportunities and issues associated with two embodied interaction modalities that allow us to leave the traditional keyboard behind: tangible and gesture interaction. We explore the issues in designing for this new age of interaction by highlighting the significance and contexts for these modalities. We explore the design of tangible interaction with a reconceptualization of the traditional keyboard as a Tangible Keyboard, and the design of interactive three-dimensional (3D) models as Tangible Models. We explore the design of gesture interaction through the design of gesture-base commands for a walk-up-and-use information display, and through the design of a gesture-based dialogue for the willful marionette. We conclude with design principles for tangible and gesture interaction and a call for research on the cognitive effects of these modalities.
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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.

Le geste technique est reconnu comme partie intégrante d'un « patrimoine immatériel » par la richesse inégalée des métiers vivants. Comment comprendre ce mouvement du corps ouvrier dans toutes ses nuances, au fil du temps, grâce aux mots, aux images et aux traces matérielles ? L'ouvrage est un hommage à l'anthropologue François Sigaut (1940-2012). Conçu par les auteurs comme outil essentiel à qui souhaite saisir la multiplicité des approches, il revient sur les bilans et perspectives des recherches universitaires les plus récentes. Le geste prime sur les mots et valorise l'individu inscrit dans une communauté d'expérience, d'acquis et d'excellence. Sont déclinés l'apprentissage d'un geste pour produire et transformer, la vie du geste et le geste artificiel. Les contributions sont pluridisciplinaires : verrerie, pierre, céramique, art campanaire, bijouterie, lutherie, mine, industrie textile, chantier naval, cuir, techniques agricoles ou alimentaires... Dès le xviiie siècle, le geste, initiateur des métiers, s'émancipe de l'atelier, compose avec la machine et abandonne progressivement l'outillage traditionnel. Au xxe siècle, la machine supplante parfois intégralement l'homme dans la réalisation du geste qui sera intégré, disséqué et exécuté par la robotique au xxie siècle.

• 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.

• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Understanding gesture: Description, mechanism and function / Martha W. Alibali
• pt. 1 function of gesture production
• Section 1 function of gesture production for language
• ch. 2 Representational gestures help speakers package information for speaking / Sotaro Kita
• ch. 3 Function and processing of gesture in the context of language / Ash Ozyurek
• ch. 4 asymmetric redundancy of gesture and speech / J.P. de Ruiter
• ch. 5 Gesture-speech unity: What it is, where it came from / David McNeill
• ch. 5 Supplement Exchange on gesture-speech unity: What it is, where it came from / David McNeill
• Section 2 function of gesture for cognition and social interaction
• ch. 6 function of gesture in learning and memory / Kimberly M. Fenn
• ch. 7 Gestures highlight perceptual-motor representations in thinking / Rebecca Boncoddo
• ch. 8 One function of gesture is to make new ideas: The action-cognition transduction hypothesis / Mitchell J. Nathan
• ch. 9 Gesture in socio-moral reasoning / Leanne Beaudoin-Ryan
• ch. 10 Multi-modal communication of common ground: A review of social functions / Janet Bavelas
• pt. 2 function of gesture comprehension
• ch. 11 Exploring the boundaries of gesture-speech integration during language comprehension / Spencer D. Kelly
• ch. 12 Computational gesture research: Studying the functions of gesture in human-agent interaction / Stefan Kopp
• ch. 13 Making and breaking common ground: How teachers use gesture to foster learning in the classroom / R. Breckinridge Church
• ch. 14 function of gesture in mathematical and scientific discourse in the classroom / Melissa Singer
• ch. 15 Gesture's role in learning interactions: A focus on clinical populations / Jana M. Iverson
• ch. 16 sound of silence: The functions of gestures in pauses in native and non-native interaction / Marion Tellier
• pt. 3 Why gesture? Some theoretical implications
• ch. 17 Understanding gesture as representational action: A functional account of how action and gesture differ with respect to thinking and learning / Susan Goldin-Meadow
• ch. 18 So how does gesture function in speaking, communication, and thinking? / Susan Goldin-Meadow.

Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first to systematically explore the functions of gesture in speaking, thinking, and communicating - focusing on the variety of purposes served for the gesturer as well as for the viewer of gestures. Chapters in this edited volume present a range of diverse perspectives (including neural, cognitive, social, developmental and educational), consider gestural behavior in multiple contexts (conversation, narration, persuasion, intervention, and instruction), and utilize an array of methodological approaches (including both naturalistic and experimental). The book demonstrates that gesture influences how humans develop ideas, express and share those ideas to create community, and engineer innovative solutions to problems.
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This complex and enigmatic work, which is performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, explores female gestures, poses, the body and narcissism. Mirroring each other with synchronized movements as they perform as alter-egos, Jonas and Lane reference archetypal female gestures and poses from popular and traditional cultures. This evocative personal theater is a quintessential Jonas work with its idiosyncratic vocabulary of gestures, ritual and symbolism.

• Machine generated contents note:
• pt. 1 Marcel Jousse's Anthropology of Mimism
• Introduction: The Anthropology, Methodology, and Terminology of Mimism
• ch. 1 Mimism, a Comprehensive Worldview
• ch. 2 Mimage or the Process of Mimism
• ch. 3 Mimismic Worldview: On Science and Religion, Style and Civilization
• pt. 2 Marcel Jousse: Seven Oral Lectures on Mimism
• Introduction: On Reading Marcel Jousse's Oral Lectures
• Lecture 1 Methodology of Mimism -- Marcel Jousse on His Scientific Itinerary
• Lecture 2 Anthropology of Mimism -- Marcel Jousse on His First Year of Lectures on the Anthropology of Mimism
• Lecture 3 Pedagogy of Mimism -- Mimismic Pedagogy, a Pedagogy Not of Words But of Life
• Lecture 4 Sociology of Mimism -- Algebrosis: The Death Knell of a Civilization
• Lecture 5 Worldview of Mimism 1 -- Mimism and Metaphor: The Humanizing Geste
• Lecture 6 Worldview of Mimism 2 -- Mimism and Comparison: An Interconnected Universe
• Lecture 7 Worldview of Mimism 3 -- Mimism and the Invisible: Ethnic Liturgies
• pt. 3 Marcel Jousse: Five Essays on Mimism
• Introduction: Oral Lectures and Written Essays: Fluidism and Formulism
• Essay 1 Human Mimism and Manual Style -- The Primordial Universal Human Expression Is Mimage
• Essay 2 Human Mimism and the Anthropology of Language: The Development of Human Expression -- 1 -- Mimage, from Manual to Oral
• Essay 3 From Mimism to Music in the Child: The Development of Human Expression -- 2 -- Mimage, from Manualage to Langage
• Essay 4 Psycho-Physiological Laws of Living Oral Style and Their Use in Philology: Language Takes Form -- 1 -- Prepositional Patterning and the Formula.

• 1. Introduction: A New Perspective on an Old Problem
• 2. Two Separate Languages?
• 3. Where the Action Is
• 4. 'A Remarkable Biological Miracle'
• 5. Images in the Hands, Images in the Mind
• 6. Different Vehicles of Meaning 7.Gestures and the Frustrations of Everyday Life.
• 8. Speech is Only Half the Story
• 9. Who or What the Hands Portray
• 10. How Our Eyes are Drawn to the Gestures of Others
• 11. 'The Gesture Limits Itself Intelligently to What Matters'
• 12. Manipulating the Salience of Individual Elements to See How Gestures Respond
• 13. How Metaphoric Gestures Affect Us
• 14. Putting Iconic Gestures into TV Advertisements
• 15. How Iconic Gestures Can Leak the Truth
• 16. Unconscious Gesture Can Leak Unconscious Attitude
• 17. Concluding Remarks
• 18. References.
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Challenging all of our old assumptions about the subject, Rethinking Body Language builds on the most recent cutting-edge research to offer a new theoretical perspective on this subject that will transform the way we look at other people. In contrast to the traditional view that body language is primarily concerned with the expression of emotions and the negotiation of social relationships, author Geoff Beattie argues instead that gestures reflect aspects of our thinking but in a different way to verbal language. Critically, the spontaneous hand movements that people make when they talk often communicate a good deal more than they intend. This ground-breaking book takes body language analysis to a whole new level. Engagingly written by one of the leading experts in the field, it shows how we can detect deception in gesture-speech mismatches and how these unconscious movements can give us real insight into people's underlying implicit attitudes.
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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. 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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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.

• 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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• 1. Introduction (by Rutkowski, Pawel)
• 2. Gettin' together a POSSe: The primacy of predication in ASL possessives (by Abner, Natasha)
• 3. WH-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS) (by Branchini, Chiara)
• 4. PERSON climbing up a tree: (and other adventures in sign language grammaticalization) (by Pfau, Roland)
• 5. The point of agreement: Changing how we think about sign language, gesture, and agreement (by Wilbur, Ronnie B.)
• 6. Subject index.
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As sign language linguistics has become an important and prodigious field of research in the last few decades, it comes as no surprise that the repertoire of methodological approaches to the study of the communication of the Deaf has also expanded considerably. While earlier work on sign languages was often focused on providing arguments for them being full-fledged linguistic systems, current debates do no longer center on whether visual-spatial grammars are worth being researched, but on how this type of research should be conducted. This book contains a selection of papers that could be thought of as a good representative sample of current trends in formal approaches to the study of sign language syntax. It illustrates how generative research on the communication of the Deaf may contribute to our understanding of the syntax of natural languages in general and indicates to what extent it is possible to integrate advances in the analysis of visual-spatial grammar with current spoken language research. Originally published in Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 (2013).
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• 1. Where do nouns come from?
• 2. Introduction: Where does "Where do nouns come from?" come from? (by Haviland, John B.)
• 3. The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages (by Tkachman, Oksana)
• 4. Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons (by Padden, Carol A.)
• 5. The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: Specification, iconicity, and syntax (by Haviland, John B.)
• 6. How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign (by Hunsicker, Dea)
• 7. Subject index
• 8. Name index.
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The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which exhibit considerable iconic motivation. Do such systems mark nouns formally? Do they share strategies for forming nominal expressions? Individual chapters consider formal criteria for a noun/verb distinction in sign languages with different socio-linguistic profiles, strategies of "patterned iconicity" in a subcategory of nouns in both well-established and emerging sign languages, grammatical markers for a nominal class in a first generation family homesign system from Mexico, and the changing role of handshapes in signs referring to action and objects over the gradual development of a single deaf child's homesign. The volume is of special interest to scholars of gesture, sign languages, linguistic typology, and the evolution, socialization, and ethnography of language. Originally published in Gesture Vol. 13:3 (2013).
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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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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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• Section 1: Human-human interaction and communicative behavior.
• Section 2: Personality, affect, language-affect, emotions and expressivity.
• Section 3: Behaviour analysis, face analysis, gesture analysis, non-verbal communicative behaviour analysis, annotations.
• Section 4: Behaviour generation, gesture generation, synthetic behaviour animation, gaze, and description languages.
• Section 5: Animation, conversational agent design and evaluation.
• Section 6: Multimodal interfaces, multimodal fusion, multimodal output, visualization of synthetic speech, TTS visualization, and multimodal speaker conversion.
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Embodied conversational agents (ECA) and speech-based human-machine interfaces can together represent more advanced and more natural human-machine interaction. Fusion of both topics is a challenging agenda in research and production spheres. The important goal of human-machine interfaces is to provide content or functionality in the form of a dialo.
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Embodied conversational agents (ECA) and speech-based human-machine interfaces can together represent more advanced and more natural human-machine interaction. Fusion of both topics is a challenging agenda in research and production spheres. The important goal of human-machine interfaces is to provide content or functionality in the form of a dialog resembling face-to-face conversations. All natural interfaces strive to exploit and use different communication strategies that provide additional meaning to the content, whether they are human-machine interfaces for controlling an application or different ECA-based human-machine interfaces directly simulating face-to-face conversation. Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction presents state-of-the-art concepts of advanced environment-independent multimodal human-machine interfaces that can be used in different contexts, ranging from simple multimodal web-browsers (for example, multimodal content reader) to more complex multimodal human-machine interfaces for ambient intelligent environments (such as supportive environments for elderly and agent-guided household environments). They can also be used in different computing environments-from pervasive computing to desktop environments. Within these concepts, the contributors discuss several communication strategies, used to provide different aspects of human-machine interaction.
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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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• 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.

• Contents Translator's Preface Gesture and Affect: The Practice of a Phenomenology of Gestures Beyond Machines (But Still within the Phenomenology of Gestures) The Gesture of Writing The Gesture of Speaking The Gesture of Making The Gesture of Loving The Gesture of Destroying The Gesture of Painting The Gesture of Photographing The Gesture of Filming The Gesture of Turning a Mask Around The Gesture of Planting The Gesture of Shaving The Gesture of Listening to Music The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe The Gesture of Telephoning The Gesture of Video The Gesture of Searching Appendix: Toward a General Theory of Gestures Translator's Notes Index.
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Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vil\u00e9m Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions-from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning-in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person who makes it.These essays, published here as a collection in English for the first time, were written over roughly a half century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as \u201ca movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation, \u201d Flusser moves around the topic from diverse points of view, angles, and distances: at times he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement such as taking a photograph, shaving, or listening to music; at others, he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human \u201cmaking, \u201d embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. But whatever the gesture, Flusser analyzes it as the expression of a particular form of consciousness, that is, as a particular relationship between the world and the one who gestures.
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• Chapter Description.- Historical Development of Hand Gesture Recognition.- Pre-processing.- Feature Extraction.- Effective Hand Gesture Classification Approaches.- Sign Languages of the World.- Future Trends in Hand Gesture Recognition.
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Human computer interaction (HCI) plays a vital role in bridging the 'Digital Divide', bringing people closer to consumer electronics control in the 'lounge'. Keyboards and mouse or remotes do alienate old and new generations alike from control interfaces. Hand Gesture Recognition systems bring hope of connecting people with machines in a natural way. This will lead to consumers being able to use their hands naturally to communicate with any electronic equipment in their 'lounge.' This monograph will include the state of the art hand gesture recognition approaches and how they evolved from their inception. The author would also detail his research in this area for the past 8 years and how the future might turn out to be using HCI. This monograph will serve as a valuable guide for researchers (who would endeavour into) in the world of HCI.
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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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Theoretical and empirical accounts of the interconnectedness between the manual and the mental suggest that the hand can be understood as a cognitive instrument. Cartesian-inspired dualism enforces a theoretical distinction between the motor and the cognitive and locates the mental exclusively in the head. This collection, focusing on the hand, challenges this dichotomy, offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the interconnectedness and interdependence of the manual and mental. The contributors explore the possibility that the hand, far from being the merely mechanical executor of preconceived mental plans, possesses its own know-how, enabling "enhanded" beings to navigate the natural, social, and cultural world without engaging propositional thought, consciousness, and deliberation. The contributors consider not only broad philosophical questions-ranging from the nature of embodiment, enaction, and the extended mind to the phenomenology of agency-but also such specific issues as touching, grasping, gesturing, sociality, and simulation. They show that the capacities of the hand include perception (on its own and in association with other modalities), action, (extended) cognition, social interaction, and communication. Taken together, their accounts offer a handbook of cutting-edge research exploring the ways that the manual shapes and reshapes the mental and creates conditions for embodied agents to act in the world. Contributors Matteo Baccarini, Andrew J. Bremner, Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, Andy Clark, Jonathan Cole, Dorothy Cowie, Natalie Depraz, Rosalyn Driscoll, Harry Farmer, Shaun Gallagher, Nicholas P. Holmes, Daniel D. Hutto, Angelo Maravita, Filip Mattens, Richard Menary, Jesse J. Prinz, Zdravko Radman, Matthew Ratcliffe, Etiennne B. Roesch, Stephen V. Shepherd, Susan A.J. Stuart, Manos Tsakiris, Michael Wheeler.
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