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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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Obscenity is, if nothing else, controversial. Its definition, consumption and regulation fire debate about the very meaning of art and culture, law, politics and ideology. And it is often, erroneously, assumed to be synonymous with modernity. "Medieval Obscenities" examines the complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive, indecent or morally repugnant - in medieval culture from late antiquity through to the end of the Middle Ages in western Europe. Its approach is multidisciplinary, its methodologies divergent and it seeks to formulate questions and stimulate debate. The essays examine topics as diverse as Norse defecation taboos, the Anglo-Saxon sexual idiom, sheela-na-gigs, impotence in the church courts, bare ecclesiastical bottoms, rude sounds and dirty words, as well as the modern reception and representation of the medieval obscene. They demonstrate not only the vitality of medieval obscenity, but its centrality to our understanding of the Middle Ages and ourselves. The Contributors include: Michael Camille, Glenn Davis, Emma Dillon, Simon Gaunt, Jeremy Goldberg, Eamonn Kelly, Carolyne Larrington, Nicola Mcdonald, Alastair Minnis, and Daunuta Shanzer.
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• 1. The gestural origin theory of language genesis
• 2. What are ideophones?
• 3. Lexical origins of ideophones
• 4. Suiting the word to the action: oral charades
• 5. Ideophones as a possible solution to the ritualization problem
• 6. Taming ideophones: from showing to telling
• 7. Repetition in the genesis of signs, art, and ideophones.
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Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but they still lie far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are most richly attested in relatively unstudied (often unwritten) languages. The evolution of language, on the other hand, has recently become a fashionable topic, but all speculations so far have been almost totally data-free. Without disputing the tenet that there are no primitive languages, this book argues that ideophones may be an atavistic throwback to an earlier stage of communication, where sounds and gestures were paired in what can justifiably be called a 'prelinguistic' fashion. The structure of ideophones may also provide answers to deeper questions, among them how communicative gestures may themselves have emerged from practical actions. Moreover, their current distribution and behaviour provide hints as to how they may have become conventional words in languages with conventional rules.
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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.

• The inscription of gesture: inward migrations in dance / Sally Ann Ness
• Physical graffiti west: African American gang walks and semiotic practice / Susan A. Phillips
• Gesture and abstraction / Blake Stimson
• Remembering kinesthesia / Deidre Sklar
• Digesture: gesture and inscription in experimental cinema / Akira Mizuta Lippit
• Miming signing: Henri Michaux and the writing body / Carrie Noland
• Ghosting: the performance and migration of cinematic gesture, focusing on Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Good men, good women / Lesley Stern
• The gestures of Bharata Natyam: migratig into diasporic contemporary Indian dance / Ketu H. Katrak
• Mimique / Mark Franko.

• 1. I. Introduction
• 2. 1 Introduction: The Dynamic Dimension of Language (by Levy, Elena T.)
• 3. 2 On the Origins of Modern Gesture Studies (by Kendon, Adam)
• 4. II. Language and Cognition
• 5. 3 Gesture with Speech and Without it (by Goldin-Meadow, Susan)
• 6. 4 From Gestures to Signs in the Acquisition of Sign Language (by Hoiting, Nini)
• 7. 5 How does Spoken Language Shape Iconic Gestures? (by Kita, Sotaro)
• 8. 6 Forgetful or Strategic? The Mystery of the Systematic Avoidance of Reference in the Cartoon Story Narrative (by Furuyama, Nobuhiro)
• 9. 7 Metagesture: An Analysis of Theoretical Discourse about Multimodal Language (by Parrill, Fey)
• 10. 8 Potential Cognitive Universals: Evidence from Head Movements in Turkana (by McClave, Evelyn)
• 11. 9 Blending in Deception: Tracing Output Back to its Source (by Franklin, Amy)
• 12. 10 A Dynamic View of Metaphor, Gesture and Thought (by Muller, Cornelia)
• 13. 11 Second Language Acquisition from a McNeillian Perspective (by Stam, Gale)
• 14. III. Environmental Context and Sociality
• 15. 12 Face-to-face Dialogue as a Micro-social Context: The Example of Motor Mimicry (by Bavelas, Janet)
• 16. 13 Master Speakers, Master Gesturers: A String Quarter Master Class (by Haviland, John B.)
• 17. 14 Constructing Spatial Conceptualizations from Limited Input: Evidence from Norwegian Sign Language (by Liddell, Scott K.)
• 18. 15 Environmentally Coupled Gestures (by Goodwin, Charles)
• 19. 16 Indexing Locations in Gesture: Recalled Stimulus Image and Interspeaker Coordination as Factors Influencing Gesture Form (by Kimbara, Irene)
• 20. 17 The Role of Iconic Gesture in Semantic Communication and its Theoretical and Practical Implications (by Beattie, Geoffrey)
• 21. 18 Intersubjectivity in Gestures: The Speaker's Perspective toward the Addressee (by Ishino, Mika)
• 22. 19 An Integrated Approach to the Study of Convention, Conflict, and Compliance in Interaction (by Duncan, Starkey)
• 23. IV. Atypical Minds and Bodies
• 24. 20 Discourse Focus, Gesture, and Disfluent Aphasia (by Duncan, Susan D.)
• 25. 21 The Construction of a Temporally Coherent Narrative by an Autistic Adolescent: Co-contributions of Speech, Enactment and Gesture (by Levy, Elena T.)
• 26. 22 The Body in Communication: Lessons from the Near-Human (by Cassell, Justine)
• 27. Index.
• (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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• 1. The domain of gesture
• 2. Visible action as gesture
• 3. Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century
• 4. Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt
• 5. Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return
• 6. Classifying gestures
• 7. Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech
• 8. Deployments of gesture in the utterance
• 9. Gesture and speech in semantic interaction
• 10. Gesture and referential meaning
• 11. On pointing
• 12. Gestures of the 'precision-grip': topic, comment and question markers
• 13. Two gesture families of the open hand
• 14. Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes
• 15. Gesture and sign on common ground
• 16. Gesture, culture and the communication economy
• 17. The status of gesture
• Appendix I. Transcription conventions
• Appendix II. The recordings.
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Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this long-awaited study provides a comprehensive treatment of gesture and its use in interaction, drawing on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate its varied role in the construction of utterances. Adam Kendon accompanies his analyses with an extended discussion of the history of the study of gesture - a topic not dealt with in any previous publication - as well as exploring the relationship between gesture and sign language, and how the use of gesture varies according to cultural and language differences. Set to become the definitive account of the topic, Gesture will be invaluable to all those interested in human communication. Its publication marks a major development, both in semiotics and in the emerging field of gesture studies.
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