Screen LibraryThe language of gestures/
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin: |
| Publication Dates: | [2010] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Approaches to semiotics / paperback series
v.6 |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110808285 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110808285.jpg |
| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online ressource (152 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110808285 |
| Index Number: | P117 |
| CLC: | H026.3 |
| Contents: |
4. Connotative Gestures5. Symbolic Gestures; III. Ambiguity and Change of Meaning of Gestures; 1. The Vagueness of the Conceptual Categories; 2. The Transition of Concepts and the Change of Meaning of Gesture; IV. The Syntax of Gestural Communication; 1. The Sequence of Gestures among Deaf-mutes; 2. The Sequence of Gestures among Indians; 3. Psychological Causes of Gestural Syntax; V. The Psychological Development of Gestural Communication; 1. The Origin of Gestures from Expressive Motions; 2. Gestures and the Origin of Graphic Art; 3. Gestural Communication and Pictography. 4. The Psychological Character of Gestural Communication. Acknowledgements; Table of Figures; Introduction; Wundt and the Concept of the Gesture; The Psychophysics of Expression of Wilhelm Wundt; The Language of Gestures; I. Forms of Development of Gestural Communication; 1. Concept and General Characteristics of Gestural Communication; 2. Gestural Communication among Deaf-mutes; 3. Gestural Communication and Primitive Peoples; 4. Inherited Gestures among Civilized Peoples; 5. Gestural Signs among the Cistercian Monks; II. Basic Gestural Forms; 1. Psychological Classification of Gestures; 2. Demonstrative Gestures; 3. Imitative Gestures. |