Gesture : visible action as utterance /
Kendon, Adam,
Gesture : visible action as utterance / Adam Kendon. - ix, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The domain of gesture -- Visible action as gesture -- Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century -- Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt -- Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return -- Classifying gestures -- Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech -- Deployments of gesture in the utterance -- Gesture and speech in semantic interaction -- Gesture and referential meaning -- On pointing -- Gestures of 'precision grip': topic, comment and question markers -- Two gesture families of the open hand -- Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes -- 'Gesture' and 'sign' on common ground -- Gesture, culture and the communication economy -- The status of gesture -- Transcription conventions -- The recordings.
0521835259 9780521835251 0521542936 9780521542937
Gesture
808.5
Gesture : visible action as utterance / Adam Kendon. - ix, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The domain of gesture -- Visible action as gesture -- Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century -- Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt -- Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return -- Classifying gestures -- Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech -- Deployments of gesture in the utterance -- Gesture and speech in semantic interaction -- Gesture and referential meaning -- On pointing -- Gestures of 'precision grip': topic, comment and question markers -- Two gesture families of the open hand -- Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes -- 'Gesture' and 'sign' on common ground -- Gesture, culture and the communication economy -- The status of gesture -- Transcription conventions -- The recordings.
0521835259 9780521835251 0521542936 9780521542937
Gesture
808.5