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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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• Table of contents; bringing language and cognition back together again; i; the true nature of typological linguistics; reassessing the project of linguistics; linguistic relativity, mediation and the categorization of motion; can we tell what we said when we hear ourselves saying something else?; tests of true pictorial competence in chimpanzees; ii; the construal of entity permanence; on the prototypicality of dimensional adjectives; basic and non-basic colour terms in hungarian; everyday experience in word meaning.

• What can self-organizing maps reveal about the structure of emotion concepts? a case study of estoniana three-dimensional format for modelling lexical organization; iii; more than a metaphor; going towards the unknown; the swedish adjective varm ('warm'); domain knowledge in children's understanding of metaphors; iv; lexical and constructional organization of argument structure; impaired attention to phonological input, dysfunctional lexical"frequency counters" and impaired grammatical morphology; what can child language tell us about prepositions?; animacy and canonical word order; v.

• Complex anaphors and their referentsimperative frames and the psychology of indirect speech acts; talking in and about conflicts; the father and the son; vi; gesture's role in creating and learning language; stages and transitions in children's semiotic development; pointing gestures, vocalizations and gaze; the expression of negation through grammar and gesture; gesture in the brain; the hand is quicker than the mind; towards a conceptualized model of bodily communication; vii; force-dynamics in the history of swedish modals; on the evolutionary history of 'yes' and 'no'

• Semantic motivation and syntactic memorability in old norse kenningarauthors' addresses; index.

Using a plethora of concepts, theories and methods, the theoretical and empirical studies described in this volume are united in their approach of treating language not in isolation (e.g. as a "module"), but as both based on structures and processes of cognition, and at the same time as affecting the human mind. The book is organized in 7 parts, corresponding to some of the major fields in language research today: (a) linguistic meta-theory and general issues, (b) lexical meaning, (c) metaphor, (d) grammar, (e) pragmatics, (f) gesture and bodily communication, and (g) historical linguistics. At the same time, the non-modular approach to language adopted by the authors is reflected by the fact that there are no strict boundaries between the parts. Thus, the book is a valuable contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of Language and Cognition.
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• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Gestures
• 3. Looks
• 4. Two Middle English narratives
• 5. Dante's Commedia
• 6. Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index of names and titles
• Index of signs.
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In medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than they do today. Gestures meant more than words, for example, in ceremonies of homage and fealty. In this, the first study of its kind in English, John Burrow examines the role of non-verbal communication in a wide range of narrative texts, including Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, the romances of Chretien de Troyes, the Prose Lancelot, Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, and Dante's Commedia. Burrow argues that since non-verbal signs are in general less subject to change than words, many of the behaviours recorded in these texts, such as pointing and amorous gazing, are familiar in themselves; yet many prove easy to misread, either because they are no longer common, like bowing, or because their use has changed, like winking.
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• Contents: S. Kita, Pointing: A Foundational Building Block of Human Communication. G. Butterworth, Pointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies. D. Povinelli, J.M. Bering, S. Giambrone, Chimpanzees' "Pointing": Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? N. Masataka, From Index-Finger Extension to Index-Finger Pointing: Ontogenesis of Pointing in Preverbal Infants. S. Goldin-Meadow, C. Butcher, Pointing Toward Two-Word Speech in Young Children. A. Kendon, L. Versante, Pointing by Hand in "Neapolitan." J.B. Haviland, How to Point in Zinacantan. D. Wilkins, Why Pointing With the Index Finger Is Not a Universal (in Sociocultural and Semiotic Terms). C. Goodwin, Pointing as Situated Practice. H.H. Clark, Pointing and Placing. E. Engberg-Pedersen, From Pointing to Reference and Predication: Pointing Signs, Eyegaze, and Head and Body Orientation in Danish Sign Language. D. McNeill, Pointing and Morality in Chicago. S. Kita, Interplay of Gaze, Hand, Torso Orientation, and Language in Pointing.
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Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have been very limited. The editor's aim is to provide an arena for such exchange by bringing together papers on pointing gestures from disciplines, such as developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, sign-language linguistics, linguistic anthropology, conversational analysis, and primatology. Questions raised by the editors include: *Do chimpanzees produce and comprehend pointing gestures in the same way as humans? *What are cross-cultural variations of pointing gestures? *In what sense are pointing gestures human universal? *What is the relationship between the development of pointing and language in children? *What linguistic roles do pointing gestures play in signed language? *Why do speakers sometimes point to seemingly empty space in front of them during conversation? *How do pointing gestures contribute to the unfolding of face-to-face interaction that involves objects in the environment? *What are the semiotic processes that relate what is pointed at and what is actually "meant" by the pointing gesture (the relationship between the two are often not as simple as one might think)? *Do pointing gestures facilitate the production of accompanying speech? The volume can be used as a required text in a course on gestural communication with multidisciplinary perspectives. It can also be used as a supplemental text in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course on interpersonal communication, cross-cultural communication, language development, and psychology of language.
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