Language and Gesture

by Edited by David McNeill

• ISBN13: 9780521771665
• ISBN10: 0521771668
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the-art analyses to demonstrate that gestures are not merely an embellishment of speech but are integral parts of language itself. The volume contributes to a rapidly growing field of study, offering a wide range of theoretical perspectives. It has strong cross-linguistic and cross-cultural components, examining gestures by speakers of Mayan, Australian, East Asian, as well as English and European languages.

Author Biography

David McNeill is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
David McNeill
Part 1 Gesture in action	11	(128)
Pointing, gesture spaces, and mental maps	13	(34)
John Haviland
Language and gesture: unity or duality?	47	(17)
Adam Kendon
The influence of addressee location on spatial language and representational gestures of direction	64	(20)
Asli Ozyurek
Gesture, aphasia, and interaction	84	(15)
Charles Goodwin
Gestural interaction between the instructor and the learner in origami instruction	99	(19)
Nobuhiro Furuyama
Gestures, knowledge, and the world	118	(21)
Curtis Lebaron
Jurgen Streeck
Part 2 Gesture in thought	139	(120)
Growth points in thinking-for-speaking	141	(21)
David McNeill
Susan D. Duncan
How representational gestures help speaking	162	(24)
Sotaro Kita
Where do most spontaneous representational gestures actually occur with respect to speech?	186	(13)
Shuichi Nobe
Gesture production during stuttered speech: insights into the nature of gesture-speech integration	199	(16)
Rachel I. Mayberry
Joselynne Jaques
The role of gestures and other graded language forms in the grounding of reference in perception	215	(20)
Elena T. Levy
Carol A. Fowler
Gesture and the transition from one- to two-word speech: when hand and mouth come together	235	(24)
Cynthia Butcher
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Part 3 Modeling gesture performance	259	(70)
Lexical gestures and lexical access: a process model	261	(23)
Robert M. Krauss
Yihsiu Chen
Rebecca F. Gottesman
The production of gesture and speech	284	(28)
Jan Peter De Ruiter
Catchments and contexts: non-modular factors in speech and gesture production	312	(17)
David McNeill
Part 4 From gesture to sign	329	(71)
Blended spaces and deixis in sign language discourse	331	(27)
Scott K. Liddell
Gestural precursors to linguistic constructs: how input shapes the form of language	358	(30)
Jill P. Morford
Judy A. Kegl
Gesture to sign (language)	388	(12)
William C. Stokoe
Index	400