Research Catalog

Title

Language and gesture / edited by David McNeill.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• McNeill, David
• University of New Mexico. Department of Linguistics
• Linguistic Institute (1995 : University of New Mexico)

Description

ix, 409 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

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. Language and Gesture offers a wide range of theoretical approaches, with emphasis not simply on behavioural descriptions but also on the underlying processes. The book has strong cross-linguistic and cross-cultural components, examining gestures by speakers of Mayan, Australian, East Asian as well as English and other European languages. The content is diverse including chapters on gestures during aphasia and severe stuttering, the first emergence of speech-gesture combinations of children, and a section on sign language. In a rapidly growing field of study this volume opens up the agenda for research into a new approach to understanding language, thought and society.

Series Statement

Language, culture, and cognition ; 2

Uniform Title

Language, culture, and cognition 2.

Subject

• Geste
• Gesture > Congresses
• Speech > Congresses
• Language and languages > Congresses
• Sign language > Congresses
• Language
• Sign Language
• Gestures
• Speech

Note

• "The origin of this book was the conference entitled 'Gestures compared Cross-Linguistically," held in the summer of 1995 at the Linguistic Institute, which that year was hosted by the Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque ... Two chapters are included from a separate conference at the 1995 Linguistic Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pointing, gesture spaces, and mental maps / John Haviland -- Language and gesture / Adam Kendon -- The influence of addressee location on spatial language and representational gestures of direction / Asli Özyürek -- Gesture, aphasia, and interaction / Charles Goodwin -- Gestural interaction between the instructor and the learner in origami instruction / Nobuhiro Furuyama -- Gestures, knowledge, and the world / Curtis Lebaron & Jürgen Streeck -- Growth points in thinking-for-speaking / David McNeill & Susan D. Duncan -- How representational gestures help speaking / Sotaro Kita -- Where do most spontaneous representational gestures actually occur with respect to speech? / Shuichi Nobe.
• Gesture production during stuttered speech / Rachel I. Mayberry & Joselynne Jaques -- The role of gestures and other graded language forms in the grounding of reference in perception / Elena T. Levy & Carol A. Fowler -- Gesture and the transition from one- to two-word speech / Cynthia Butcher & Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Lexical gestures and lexical access / Robert M. Krauss, Yihsiu Chen & Rebecca F. Gottesman -- The production of gesture and speech / Jan Peter de Ruiter -- Catchments and contexts / David McNeill -- Blended spaces and deixis in sign language discourse / Scott K. Liddell -- Gestural precursors to linguistic constructs / Jill P. Morford & Judy A. Kegl -- Gesture to sign (language) / William C. Stokoe.

ISBN

• 0521771668
• 0521777615 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99033524^

OCLC

• 41621675
• SCSB-9913981

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library