Screen LibraryWhy gesture? : how the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating /
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...
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John Benjamins Publishing Company,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Gesture studies (GS) ;
volume 7 |
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| Summary: |
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 communication, language and thinking?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 a range of contexts (conversation, narration, persuasion, intervention, and instruction), and utilize a range of methodological approaches (including both naturalistic and experimental approaches). The book demonstrates that gesture influences how humans develop ideas, express and share those ideas to create community, and engineer innovative solutions to problems. |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 433 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789027228499 9027228493 |
| Index Number: | P117 |
| CLC: | H026.3 |
| Call Number: | H026.3/W629-1 |
| Contents: | Understanding gesture: description, mechanism, and function / Spencer D. Kelly, R. Breckinridge Church, and Martha W. Alibali -- Representational gestures help speakers package information for speaking / Martha W. Alibali, Amelia Yeo, Autumn B. Hostetter, and Sotaro Kita -- Function and processing of gesture in the processing of language / Aslı Özyürek -- The asymmetric redundancy of gesture and speech / J.P. de Ruiter -- Gesture-speech unity: what it is, where it came from / David McNeill -- Exchange on Gesture-speech unity: what it is where it came from / Renia Lopez-Ozieblo and David McNeill -- The function of gesture in learning and memory / Susan Wagner Cook and Kimberly M. Fenn -- Gestures highlight perceptual-motor representations in thinking / Autumn B. Hostetter and Rebecca Boncaddo -- One function of gesture is to make new ideas: the action-cognition transduction hypothesis / Mitchell J. Nathan -- Gesture in socio-moral reasoning / Leanne Beaudoin-Ryan -- Multi-modal communication of common ground: a review of social functions / Judith Holler and Janet Bavelas -- Exploring the boundaries of gesture-speech integration during language comprehension / Spencer D. Kelly -- Computational gesture research: studying the functions of gesture in human-agent interaction / Stefan Kopp -- Making and breaking common ground: how teachers use gesture to foster learning in the classroom / Mitchell J. Nathan, Martha W. Alibali, and R. Breckinridge Church -- The function of gesture in mathematical and scientific discourse / Melissa Singer -- Gesture's role in learning interactions: a focus on clinical populations / Eve S. LeBarton and Jana M. Iverson -- The sound of silence: the functions of gestures in pauses in native and non-native interaction / Gale Stam and Marion Tellier -- Understanding gesture as representational action: a functional account of how action and gesture differ with respect to thinking and learning / Miriam A. Novack and Susan Goldin-Meadow -- So how does gesture function in speaking, communication, and thinking? / R. Breckinridge Church and Susan Goldin-Meadow. |