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9780521542937

Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance

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    9780521542937

  • ISBN10:

    0521542936

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-10-25
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this long-awaited study provides a comprehensive treatment of gesture and its use in interaction, drawing on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate its varied role in the construction of utterances. Adam Kendon accompanies his analyses with an extended discussion of the history of the study of gesture - a topic not dealt with in any previous publication - as well as exploring the relationship between gesture and sign language, and how the use of gesture varies according to cultural and language differences. Set to become the definitive account of the topic, Gesture will be invaluable to all those interested in human communication. Its publication marks a major development, both in semiotics and in the emerging field of gesture studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi
The domain of gesture
1(6)
Visible action as gesture
7(10)
Western interest in gesture from Classical Antiquity to the eighteenth century
17(26)
Four contributions from the nineteenth century
43(19)
Andrea de Jorio
Edward Tylor
Garrick Mallery
Wilhelm Wundt
Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return
62(22)
Classifying gestures
84(24)
Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech
108(19)
Deployments of gesture in the utterance
127(31)
Gesture and speech in semantic interaction
158(18)
Gesture and referential meaning
176(23)
On pointing
199(26)
Gestures of `precision grip': topic, comment and question markers
225(23)
Two gesture families of the open hand
248(36)
Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes
284(23)
`Gesture' and `sign' on common ground
307(19)
Gesture, culture and the communication economy
326(29)
The status of gesture
355(7)
Appendix I: Transcription conventions 362(3)
Appendix II: The recordings 365(4)
References 369(20)
Index 389

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