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Gesture : visible action as utterance / Adam Kendon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: ix, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521835259
  • 9780521835251
  • 0521542936
  • 9780521542937
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.5 22
Contents:
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.
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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.

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