Book Description
Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.
Author : Simon Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108417205
Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.
Author : David McNeill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1316483487
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.
Author : Kristine S. Santilli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136714200
This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit 'logic' of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do. Moving between theory and practice, and drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens whose work is embedded with a richness and complexity of gesture, the author shows how the poetic text sustains and embodies an inconvertible, ancient and innately human form of linguistic knowledge.
Author : Adam Kendon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1316264939
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 2004 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.
Author : Robert Irving Fulton
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Elocution
ISBN :
Author : Silva Ladewig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110668653
Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has been paid to the recipients’ cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How do people understand a speaker’s gestures when inserted into gaps in the flow of speech? What cognitive-semiotic mechanisms allow this integration to occur? And what linguistic and gestural properties do people draw on when construing multimodal meaning? This book offers answers by investigating multimodal utterances in which speech is replaced by gestures. Through fine-grained cognitive-linguistic and cognitive-semiotic analyses of multimodal utterances combined with naturalistic perception experiments, six chapters explore gestures’ potential to realize grammatical notions of nouns and verbs and to integrate with speech by merging into multimodal syntactic constructions. Analyses of speech-replacing gestures and a range of related phenomena compel us to consider gestures as well as spoken and signed language as manifestations of the same conceptual system. An overarching framework is proposed for studying these different modalities together – a multimodal cognitive grammar.
Author : James Albert Winans
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Elocution
ISBN :
Author : Clarence Stratton
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Lionel Crocker
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Public speaking
ISBN :
Author : Giovanni Maddalena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2024-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110785846
Over the past few years, scientists and philosophers have discussed the concept of gesture as promising to overcome hyper-intellectualist conceptions of human beings. Its ascendancy reaffirmed the importance of the pragmatic, relational dimension in human experience and cognitive processes. Many questions arise when we focus on the cognitive role of gestures, especially in the new cultural landscape shaped by the digital revolution. Does the idea of gestures highlight the preeminence of bodily experiences? Does it lead to the thinning of the distinction between humans and nonhuman animals? Do gestures help us rethink the allegedly higher human capacities in an antireductionist vein? Do gestures involve reasoning? Are they purely external actions? Do they serve to communicate, or is all communication a form of gesture? What kinds of social relations are involved in the concept of gesture? According to a multidisciplinary orientation, the book inquiries into the possibilities and issues opened up by attending to a philosophy of gestures in philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and communication studies. Given the current centrality of gestures, the general aim of the book is to reconsider the meaning of "gestures" and try to answer old and new questions.