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• 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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• 1. Acknowledgements
• 2. About the contributors
• 3. Introduction: Developments in primate gesture research (by Pika, Simone)
• 4. Article
• 5. Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language (by Hooff, Jan A.R.A.M. van)
• 6. Research Studies
• 7. Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants? (by Marentette, Paula)
• 8. Non-human primates
• 9. A mother gorilla's variable use of touch to guide her infant: Insights into iconicity and the relationship between gesture and action (by Perlman, Marcus)
• 10. Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans: A case for strategy? (by Tempelmann, Sebastian)
• 11. Handedness for manual gestures in great apes: A meta-analysis (by Hopkins, William D.)
• 12. Mandrill visual gestures: A round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys (by Laidre, Mark E.)
• 13. Gesture use in consortship: Wild chimpanzees' use of gesture for an 'evolutionarily urgent' purpose (by Hobaiter, Catherine)
• 14. New trends and debates
• 15. A call for conformity: Gesture studies in human and non-human primates (by Scott, Nicole M.)
• 16. Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing (by Racine, Timothy P.)
• 17. Pointing: Contexts and instrumentality (by Leavens, David A.)
• 18. Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing: A new look on chimpanzee signalling (by Wilkinson, Ray)
• 19. Article
• 20. Hands and faces: Linking human language and non-human primate communication (by Wilcox, Sherman)
• 21. Where next? (by Liebal, Katja)
• 22. Index.
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The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on "Current developments in non-human primate gesture research", which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The motivation for this book - following on from the motivation for the workshop series - was to present the state of the art in non-human primate gesture research with a special emphasis on its history, interdisciplinary perspectives, developments and future directions. This book provides, for the first time in a single volume, the most recent work on comparative gestural signaling by many of the major scholars in the field, such as W.D. Hopkins, D. Leavens, T. Racine, J. van Hooff, and S. Wilcox (in alphabetical order).
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• 1. Acknowledgements, pix-x
• 2. About the contributors, pxi-xiv
• 3. Introduction: Developments in primate gesture research (by Pika, Simone), p1-12
• 4. Article
• 5. Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language (by Hooff, Jan A.R.A.M. van), p13-32
• 6. Research Studies
• 7. Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants? (by Marentette, Paula), p33-54
• 8. Non-human primates
• 9. A mother gorilla's variable use of touch to guide her infant: Insights into iconicity and the relationship between gesture and action (by Perlman, Marcus), p55-72
• 10. Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans: A case for strategy? (by Tempelmann, Sebastian), p73-92
• 11. Handedness for manual gestures in great apes: A meta-analysis (by Hopkins, William D.), p93-112
• 12. Mandrill visual gestures: A round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys (by Laidre, Mark E.), p113-128
• 13. Gesture use in consortship: Wild chimpanzees' use of gesture for an 'evolutionarily urgent' purpose (by Hobaiter, Catherine), p129-146
• 14. New trends and debates
• 15. A call for conformity: Gesture studies in human and non-human primates (by Scott, Nicole M.), p147-164
• 16. Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing (by Racine, Timothy P.), p165-180
• 17. Pointing: Contexts and instrumentality (by Leavens, David A.), p181-198
• 18. Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing: A new look on chimpanzee signalling (by Wilkinson, Ray), p199-222
• 19. Article
• 20. Hands and faces: Linking human language and non-human primate communication (by Wilcox, Sherman), p223-240
• 21. Where next? (by Liebal, Katja), p241-252
• 22. Index, p253-256.
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• 1. Acknowledgements
• 2. About the contributors
• 3. Introduction: Developments in primate gesture research (by Pika, Simone)
• 4. Article
• 5. Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language (by Hooff, Jan A.R.A.M. van)
• 6. Research Studies
• 7. Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants? (by Marentette, Paula)
• 8. Non-human primates
• 9. A mother gorilla's variable use of touch to guide her infant: Insights into iconicity and the relationship between gesture and action (by Perlman, Marcus)
• 10. Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans: A case for strategy? (by Tempelmann, Sebastian)
• 11. Handedness for manual gestures in great apes: A meta-analysis (by Hopkins, William D.)
• 12. Mandrill visual gestures: A round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys (by Laidre, Mark E.)
• 13. Gesture use in consortship: Wild chimpanzees' use of gesture for an 'evolutionarily urgent' purpose (by Hobaiter, Catherine)
• 14. New trends and debates
• 15. A call for conformity: Gesture studies in human and non-human primates (by Scott, Nicole M.)
• 16. Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing (by Racine, Timothy P.)
• 17. Pointing: Contexts and instrumentality (by Leavens, David A.)
• 18. Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing: A new look on chimpanzee signalling (by Wilkinson, Ray)
• 19. Article
• 20. Hands and faces: Linking human language and non-human primate communication (by Wilcox, Sherman)
• 21. Where next? (by Liebal, Katja)
• 22. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on "Current developments in non-human primate gesture research", which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The motivation for this book - following on from the motivation for the workshop series - was to present the state of the art in non-human primate gesture research with a special emphasis on its history, interdisciplinary perspectives, developments and future directions. This book provides, for the first time in a single volume, the most recent work on comparative gestural signaling by many of the major scholars in the field, such as W.D. Hopkins, D. Leavens, T. Racine, J. van Hooff, and S. Wilcox (in alphabetical order).
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• 1. Foreword
• 2. Acknowledgements
• 3. Introduction
• 4. Chapter 1. The gestural sign and related key concepts
• 5. Chapter 2. The demarcative function of gesture
• 6. Chapter 3. Identifying the referential function of gesture
• 7. Chapter 4. Classification of referential gestures according to their priority components
• 8. Chapter 5. Systematic analysis to identify gestural signs
• 9. Chapter 6. Different gestures represent one notion: Variation
• 10. Chapter 7. One gesture represents different notions: Polysemy and Polysign
• 11. Chapter 8. The analogical links between gestures and notions
• 12. chapter 9. The gestural sign and speech
• 13. Chapter 10. Gesture, thought and speech
• 14. Conclusion
• 15. References
• 16. Appendix A
• 17. Appendix B
• 18. Postscript: A semiotic and linguistic perspective on gestures
• 19. Person index
• 20. Subject index.
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Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Genevieve Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows how various gestural signs can be created in the same gesture by analogical links between physical and semantic elements. Originating in our world experience via mimetic and metonymic processes, these analogical links are activated by contexts of use and thus lead to a diverse range of semantic constructions rather as, from the components of a Meccano kit, many different objects can be assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate between the concrete and the abstract, gesture may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for gesture as a symbolic system in its own right that interfaces with thought and speech production, Calbris' book brings a challenging new perspective to gesture studies and will be seminal for generations of gesture researchers.
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• 1. Acknowledgments
• 2. 1. Manufactured understanding
• 3. 2. Gesture as interaction: On methodology
• 4. 3. Hands
• 5. 4. Gathering meaning
• 6. 5. The turn to the hands
• 7. 6. Depicting
• 8. 7. Thinking by hand
• 9. 8. Speech-handling
• 10. 9. A sustainable art
• 11. Appendix
• 12. Bibliography
• 13. Person index
• 14. Subject index
• 15. Video clips.
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The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making sense of it, and symbolizing the interaction process itself. Gesture is analyzed as embodied communicative action grounded in the hands' practical and cognitive engagments with material worlds. The book responds to the quest for the role of the human body in cognition and interaction with an analytic perspective informed by phenomenology, conversation analysis, context analysis, praxeology, and cognitive science. Many of the cross-linguistic video-data of everyday interaction investigated in its chapters are available on-line.
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• 1. 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.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making sense of it, and symbolizing the interaction process itself. Gesture is analyzed as embodied communicative action grounded in the hands' practical and cognitive engagments with material worlds. The book responds to the quest for the role of the human body in cognition and interaction with an analytic perspective informed by phenomenology, conversation analysis, context analysis, praxeology, and cognitive science. Many of the cross-linguistic video-data of everyday interaction investigated in its chapters are available on-line.
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• 1. I. Introduction
• 2. 1 Introduction: The Dynamic Dimension of Language (by Levy, Elena T.)
• 3. 2 On the Origins of Modern Gesture Studies (by Kendon, Adam)
• 4. II. Language and Cognition
• 5. 3 Gesture with Speech and Without it (by Goldin-Meadow, Susan)
• 6. 4 From Gestures to Signs in the Acquisition of Sign Language (by Hoiting, Nini)
• 7. 5 How does Spoken Language Shape Iconic Gestures? (by Kita, Sotaro)
• 8. 6 Forgetful or Strategic? The Mystery of the Systematic Avoidance of Reference in the Cartoon Story Narrative (by Furuyama, Nobuhiro)
• 9. 7 Metagesture: An Analysis of Theoretical Discourse about Multimodal Language (by Parrill, Fey)
• 10. 8 Potential Cognitive Universals: Evidence from Head Movements in Turkana (by McClave, Evelyn)
• 11. 9 Blending in Deception: Tracing Output Back to its Source (by Franklin, Amy)
• 12. 10 A Dynamic View of Metaphor, Gesture and Thought (by Muller, Cornelia)
• 13. 11 Second Language Acquisition from a McNeillian Perspective (by Stam, Gale)
• 14. III. Environmental Context and Sociality
• 15. 12 Face-to-face Dialogue as a Micro-social Context: The Example of Motor Mimicry (by Bavelas, Janet)
• 16. 13 Master Speakers, Master Gesturers: A String Quarter Master Class (by Haviland, John B.)
• 17. 14 Constructing Spatial Conceptualizations from Limited Input: Evidence from Norwegian Sign Language (by Liddell, Scott K.)
• 18. 15 Environmentally Coupled Gestures (by Goodwin, Charles)
• 19. 16 Indexing Locations in Gesture: Recalled Stimulus Image and Interspeaker Coordination as Factors Influencing Gesture Form (by Kimbara, Irene)
• 20. 17 The Role of Iconic Gesture in Semantic Communication and its Theoretical and Practical Implications (by Beattie, Geoffrey)
• 21. 18 Intersubjectivity in Gestures: The Speaker's Perspective toward the Addressee (by Ishino, Mika)
• 22. 19 An Integrated Approach to the Study of Convention, Conflict, and Compliance in Interaction (by Duncan, Starkey)
• 23. IV. Atypical Minds and Bodies
• 24. 20 Discourse Focus, Gesture, and Disfluent Aphasia (by Duncan, Susan D.)
• 25. 21 The Construction of a Temporally Coherent Narrative by an Autistic Adolescent: Co-contributions of Speech, Enactment and Gesture (by Levy, Elena T.)
• 26. 22 The Body in Communication: Lessons from the Near-Human (by Cassell, Justine)
• 27. Index.
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Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural discourse and by his theory of the human capacity for language. The introductory chapter by Adam Kendon contextualizes McNeill's research paradigm within a history of earlier gesture studies. Chapters in the first section, Language and Cognition, emphasize what McNeill refers to as the intrapersonal plane. Many of the chapters adduce evidence for McNeill's claim that gestures can serve as a window onto the speaker's mind. Chapters in the second section, Environmental Context and Sociality, emphasize the interpersonal plane and exemplify McNeill's focus on how moment-to-moment language use is determined by contextual factors. The final section of the volume, Atypical Minds and Bodies, concerns lessons to be learned from studies of aphasic patients, autistic children, and artificial humans.
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• 1. I. Introduction
• 2. 1 Introduction: The Dynamic Dimension of Language (by Levy, Elena T.)
• 3. 2 On the Origins of Modern Gesture Studies (by Kendon, Adam)
• 4. II. Language and Cognition
• 5. 3 Gesture with Speech and Without it (by Goldin-Meadow, Susan)
• 6. 4 From Gestures to Signs in the Acquisition of Sign Language (by Hoiting, Nini)
• 7. 5 How does Spoken Language Shape Iconic Gestures? (by Kita, Sotaro)
• 8. 6 Forgetful or Strategic? The Mystery of the Systematic Avoidance of Reference in the Cartoon Story Narrative (by Furuyama, Nobuhiro)
• 9. 7 Metagesture: An Analysis of Theoretical Discourse about Multimodal Language (by Parrill, Fey)
• 10. 8 Potential Cognitive Universals: Evidence from Head Movements in Turkana (by McClave, Evelyn)
• 11. 9 Blending in Deception: Tracing Output Back to its Source (by Franklin, Amy)
• 12. 10 A Dynamic View of Metaphor, Gesture and Thought (by Muller, Cornelia)
• 13. 11 Second Language Acquisition from a McNeillian Perspective (by Stam, Gale)
• 14. III. Environmental Context and Sociality
• 15. 12 Face-to-face Dialogue as a Micro-social Context: The Example of Motor Mimicry (by Bavelas, Janet)
• 16. 13 Master Speakers, Master Gesturers: A String Quarter Master Class (by Haviland, John B.)
• 17. 14 Constructing Spatial Conceptualizations from Limited Input: Evidence from Norwegian Sign Language (by Liddell, Scott K.)
• 18. 15 Environmentally Coupled Gestures (by Goodwin, Charles)
• 19. 16 Indexing Locations in Gesture: Recalled Stimulus Image and Interspeaker Coordination as Factors Influencing Gesture Form (by Kimbara, Irene)
• 20. 17 The Role of Iconic Gesture in Semantic Communication and its Theoretical and Practical Implications (by Beattie, Geoffrey)
• 21. 18 Intersubjectivity in Gestures: The Speaker's Perspective toward the Addressee (by Ishino, Mika)
• 22. 19 An Integrated Approach to the Study of Convention, Conflict, and Compliance in Interaction (by Duncan, Starkey)
• 23. IV. Atypical Minds and Bodies
• 24. 20 Discourse Focus, Gesture, and Disfluent Aphasia (by Duncan, Susan D.)
• 25. 21 The Construction of a Temporally Coherent Narrative by an Autistic Adolescent: Co-contributions of Speech, Enactment and Gesture (by Levy, Elena T.)
• 26. 22 The Body in Communication: Lessons from the Near-Human (by Cassell, Justine)
• 27. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural discourse and by his theory of the human capacity for language. The introductory chapter by Adam Kendon contextualizes McNeill's research paradigm within a history of earlier gesture studies. Chapters in the first section, Language and Cognition, emphasize what McNeill refers to as the intrapersonal plane. Many of the chapters adduce evidence for McNeill's claim that gestures can serve as a window onto the speaker's mind. Chapters in the second section, Environmental Context and Sociality, emphasize the interpersonal plane and exemplify McNeill's focus on how moment-to-moment language use is determined by contextual factors. The final section of the volume, Atypical Minds and Bodies, concerns lessons to be learned from studies of aphasic patients, autistic children, and artificial humans.
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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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• 1. Contributors
• 2. Acknowledgements
• 3. Introduction (by Cienki, Alan)
• 4. Why study metaphor and gesture? (by Cienki, Alan)
• 5. From left to right...: Coverbal gestures and their symbolic use of space (by Calbris, Genevieve)
• 6. Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool (by Williams, Robert F.)
• 7. A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics: Gesture and the psychological reality of conceptual metaphor (by Nunez, Rafael)
• 8. Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor: Iconic modes in gestural representations of grammar (by Mittelberg, Irene)
• 9. Unexpected metaphors (by McNeill, David)
• 10. Catchment, growth point and spatial metaphor: Analysing Derrida's oral discourse on deconstruction (by Montredon, Jacques)
• 11. Form, meaning, and convention: A comparison of a metaphoric gesture with an emblem (by Parrill, Fey)
• 12. What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor (by Muller, Cornelia)
• 13. Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines
• 14. Metaphoric gesture and cognitive linguistics (by Langacker, Ronald W.)
• 15. Metaphoric gestures and cultural analysis (by Quinn, Naomi)
• 16. Metaphor and gesture: A view from the microanalysis of interaction (by Streeck, Jurgen)
• 17. Implications of cognitive metaphor and gesture studies for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and vice versa (by Hougaard, Anders)
• 18. Sign and gesture: Towards a new paradigm (by Wilcox, Sherman)
• 19. The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics (by Bouissac, Paul)
• 20. The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist (by Lakoff, George)
• 21. Metaphor and gesture: Some implications for psychology (by Gibbs, Raymond)
• 22. Index.
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This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture - a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.
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